They had shaken hands and he had saluted and gone out to the staff car where the old man was waiting asleep and in that car they had ridden over the road past Guadarrama, the old man still asleep, and up the Navacerrada road to the Alpine Club hut where he, Robert Jordan, slept for three hours before they started.

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An old man was effortlessly cycling past me, laughing and pointing to the electric motor attached to his bike.

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"Right now, the fleet is in need of maintenance, somebody to completely disassemble them, " said 68-year-old Frank Briglia, a longtime devotee of the sport and the man the USBSF has leaned on for the past two years to help keep the fleet intact.

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