FredRodriguez.com
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Freddie Rodriguez.com
Description
I have been known as Fast Freddie for as long as I can remember. I was always fast on the bike, and one day a local race announcer declared me "Fast Freddie", and since then, the nickname just kind of stuck.
I have been competing on a bike for almost 20 years. It all started back when my father owned a bike shop in Los Angeles. He gave me a used 10-speed bike that had been unclaimed for over a year. At the time I was really into BMX riding. I loved being a dare devil on the bike, doing tricks, hitting the technical courses. But that quickly changed when I got on the road bike for the first time. It was the speed that got me. It wasn't long before I realized that I had a thing for going fast.
My father noticed my interest in riding and took me on weekend rides all over southern California. The only problem, however, was that my Colombian father had it in his mind that Colombian riders can only be climbers. So, from my early days of road riding I thought bike racing was only about going uphill. My dad would actually drive my siblings and me to the base of the San Bernardino Mountains, where we would get out of the car and ride straight to the top. I was 12 years old. But, there was a worthwhile reward after completing the grueling climb, and that was the decent that ensued with speeds topping 50 mph.
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- FRED RODRIGUEZ
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