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Re-cycling the years; `Bike Legend Kenny Woods' is what he's called at age 78. For 65 years, anybody who has followed Minnesota bicycle racing is likely to have heard of Woods. He raced and did unicycle tricks during the Depression and has promoted biking ever since.(VARIETY)(Interview)
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Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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August 24, 1996
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1996 Star Tribune Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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"So you're the Bike Legend!" we said to Ken Woods as he led us into his south Minneapolis living room.
Woods winced. "Being a legend is very precarious," he said. "All it means is you've outlived most of your contemporaries. There's not as many around to refute your stories. You familiar with Box City?"
Box City? No. A bike-racing term?
"It's where they take boxes and put them underground. The final terminus. Get it? That's where most bicycle riders of my generation are."
Woods is not only alive but feisty. And lean as a bean. "Bony," he says. In his early racing days, he stood 5'10" and weighed 125. Later he raced at 140, where he's stayed for 40 years, but ...
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