 | Steve calls himself “an engineer with a track cycling addiction” and openly acknowledges that he holds down his job only so he can afford to ride. He took to track cycling in 1984, “One gear, no brakes, and high speed. It’s rarely boring.” He raced in the Elite categories en route to a collegiate national championship in 1988, and then vanished from the scene. “I met my wife Stacey; life and reality intervened.” He got back into biking in 2003 to lose weight but his healthful intentions unexpectedly morphed into a comeback. Currently into his second life as a kilo specialist, Steve owns five Masters national titles, three Masters world titles, two Elite national titles in Sprint/Kilo events, and more than 30 medals in other events. He rides for the East Point Track Club and has PRs of 1:05 in the kilo and 10.5 in the 200m. He likes that world kierin champion Gordon Singleton called him “one sick puppy” and describes the Kilo as “One minute and change of lung-searing, leg-burning, eyeball-tearing pain.”
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