One word could be used.......

.....to describe our own Jeff Smith: Stud! Jeff has been riding forever. Back when I was a Junior racer, I bought my very first road racing bicycle from Jeff Smith when he and Tom Devol owned Cyclesport in downtown Chico. It was a Benotto bicycle....and that thing was sweet!

But Jeff....this dude is a great rider. Back then, he was in the Veteran category.....now known as the Masters(and there were no separation of categories - if you were of age, you raced Vets). And Jeff whooped everyone. And this dude can climb - even today, he will slaughter most on the hills. I'll never be able to climb like this guy - I went riding with him last year up to Centerville and he dropped me like a bad habit.

Back in the early 80s, there was this racing team in northern California called Ten Speed Drive Imports. If you were on this team, you were the sh*t(their Junior team slayed all). And yes, Jeff was asked to join the team....and he did. The coolest thing about Jeff though was to hear the stories about the races. You sometimes read about going into the bicycle shops back in the day and the owner would tell you cycling stories about rides, races, riders, etc. That was Jeff - one of the best racers in northern California, telling us about the past weekend races on Monday or Tuesday, training during the week, the competition, the course, just everything. It was awesome - and a great memory for us as teenage racers.