Luis Bernhardt:  

Life After graduating OHS, I hitched across country, lived in Brockton, Mass for 6 months, bought a motorcycle and rode it back. Attended College of Alameda, Merritt College, CSU Hayward for a couple semesters, married a Canadian, moved to Vancouver, Canada, graduated from Simon Fraser University with a computing science degree, worked at BC Hydro for 20+ years until my unit was privatized by Accenture. Got divorced, a succession of relationships, an MBA and a CMA, downsized out of Accenture and collected salary continuance for a couple of years before moving into my final job as a tax auditor for the provincial government. I am currently retired and loving it! Meanwhile, I became a bicycle racer in the early 70's, specializing in track events. Bronze in points race in 2002 Masters World Track Championships in Manchester, silver in points race in 1998 World Masters Games in Portland, a whole bunch of silvers, both road and track, at 2005 World Masters Games in Portland. One Canadian national championship, lots of 2nd's. Won my age group at the Huntsman World Seniors Games in 2005, the last significant win of my amateur career. Lately I've been riding my fixed gear bike, on the road and in the indoor 200-meter Burnaby velodrome. I've also been doing lots of long rides. I rode Paris-Brest-Paris in 2011, something I had missed doing since 1979, and rode it again in 2015. I completed three rides for the California Triple Crown in 2012, all on the fixed gear. In 2013, I rode the 1,400 km London-Edinburgh-London ride in five days, repeating the ride on a new geared bike in 2017, and I completed the Trona 353 in 2013, ...Expand for more