From the Archives: Long Beach Criterium 1991...

While the Chevrolet / LA Sheriff men's team is well known, the women's team were quite impressive in their own right, back in the early to mid 1990s. Many of the women from those years are still active in racing and/or other aspects of cycling. Among the names you may recognize who raced for the team back then are Pam Schuster, Christy Nicholson, Elizabeth Emory, Esther Davis, and Molly Renner, among others. There are six ladies wearing the green and yellow in the above photo taken during the old Long Beach series. Anyone here have a good eye for faces, and can identify any of them?

From the archives: Brian Seguin...

photo was taken at one of the races in the old Long Beach series. I am thinking it might be from 1992, since he is riding a team issue Medici, and the Chevrolet / LA Sheriff's switched over to Litespeed in 1993. Additionally, judging by the skinsuit graphics I don't think it is any earlier. I have another photo of him in sprint mode, but that will be for another time.

From the archives: Adams and Hegg at Long Beach, 1992...

Kenny Adams of the Spago-Rossin team in front of Chevrolet-LA Sheriff's Steve Hegg during the old Long Beach Criterium series, race #4, I believe in 1992. The Spago team, with various co-sponsors was a major player on the domestic cycling scene in the early 1990s with some high profile riders including Scott McKinley, Andy Bishop, James Urbonas, the Swiss rider Herbert Neiderberger, Nathan Dahlberg, Italian Stefano Bianchini, and Bobby Julich, as well as Adams. They had some quality results, but like most of the domestic teams of the time were often competing in the tailwind of the powerhouse Coors Light team.

Update: it was the 5 of July, 1992 to be exact. Hegg, Adams and Brian Seguin also of the Chevrolet-LA Sheriff team lapped the field, Hegg took the win, Adams finished second.