Meet Lindsay Crawford
Lindsay Crawford near his Woodside, CA home in February 2011. Image: Brian Gaberman
We recently reconnected with Lindsay and his wife Estelle at their home on Skyline Boulevard just north of Alice’s Restaurant in Woodside, about 30 minutes from our place here in Silicon Valley. They just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary, and it was lovely catching up. I’ve shared many glorious pedal strokes on memorable group rides with Lindsay, and my recent return to cycling reawakened fond memories of our long chats about Eddy Merckx, Greg LeMond and European cycling.
When Joe Parkin launched Paved Magazine in 2010, he asked if I had any article ideas to contribute. Without hesitation I pitched him two stories: one about the luminaries of American cycling (Ben Serotta, Gary Erickson, Steve Hed and Jim Ochowicz), and another about the legend of former United Airlines pilot Lindsay Crawford. The former appeared in Volume 1, the latter Volume 2, in the spring of 2011.