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Dinner at Isabella's Judge Marsha Slough - Redlands magazine

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Cyclists await the start of the next stage of the <strong>Redlands</strong> Bicycle Classic.<br />

just thought this event would be a lot<br />

of fun.”<br />

Using their skills and knowledge — as<br />

well as several instances of simply winging<br />

it — Beswick, Larsen and Brandt spent the<br />

next months organizing, planning and<br />

eventually putting on the inaugural race.<br />

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A quarter of a century l<strong>at</strong>er, the<br />

<strong>Redlands</strong> Bicycle Classic is the oldest<br />

continuous stage race in the United St<strong>at</strong>es.<br />

“I don’t think anybody involved in the<br />

beginning had thoughts th<strong>at</strong> it would<br />

become wh<strong>at</strong> it is,” said Craig Kundig,<br />

who served as the public race director the<br />

first year. “I know after the first year we<br />

were all very excited with how successful<br />

it was and we wanted to do a second one,<br />

but I don’t think anybody thought it’d<br />

last this long.”<br />

For Brandt, the legacy of wh<strong>at</strong> he helped<br />

cre<strong>at</strong>e is evident in a memento he has from

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