Cyclists organize rides to remember Steve Larsen
- By Steve Frothingham
- Published May. 21, 2009
- Updated May. 21, 2009 at 5:52 PM UTC
The cycling community in Bend, Oregon, is organizing two bike rides as memorials to multi-sport legend Steve Larsen, who died Tuesday. A memorial service is planned for Saturday at 1 pm in Bend.
The first ride is the regular Saturday morning hammer ride, leaving from Hutch’s East Side bike shop at 820 NE 3rd Street, Bend. A friend said “the ride will hammer as usual. Steve would want it that way.”
The second ride will meet at 12:30 p.m., at the Drake Park Stage. The group will parade from there to the memorial service. All bikes and riders are welcome.
The memorial service is at 1 p.m. at the Les Schwab Amphitheater “White House” in Bend. (Click for directions to the Ampitheater.
There also is a memorial account set up:
Donations may be sent to:
Steve Larsen Memorial Fund
Umpqua Bank
390 SW Century Drive
Suite 100
Bend OR 97702
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Steve Frothingham
VeloNews.com editor Steve Frothingham joined the gang in bike-crazy Boulder in early 2008. He is the former executive editor of the trade magazine Bicycle Retailer & Industry News. He also was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press, where he covered three presidential primaries in politics-crazy New Hampshire. His racing career began on a BMX track in 1980 and reached its zenith with several miserable road races as a category 2 in the early 90s. He subsequently retreated to cat. 3, where he has had a consistently mediocre (at best) record ever since, in road, mountain bike and cyclocross events. Follow him on Twitter at @steve_froth