The american dream, in words of Henry Christian, was road cycling. The young californian guy started his love relationship with cycling close to Mount Shasta, mainly because weather was excellent during summer, when he had free time to practice. With 16 years old he became junior state champion against local talents of his state, and he took a break from road to try his skills in kearin; however a call from a new road cycling team convinced him to lead a fresh and new project, US Postal. Henry started a bit later in OCM (32 years old) but he achieved 3 results in the first season. After two seasons, he became the lead out for another american promise, Pete McCain. He turned out as a great lead out for The Bullet since he was good enough to open the sprint but without ''explosive'' speed at the end, Henry also had few chances as captain or break-away attempts, in one of them he achieved his last re...
Read moreThe american dream, in words of Henry Christian, was road cycling. The young californian guy started his love relationship with cycling close to Mount Shasta, mainly because weather was excellent during summer, when he had free time to practice. With 16 years old he became junior state champion against local talents of his state, and he took a break from road to try his skills in kearin; however a call from a new road cycling team convinced him to lead a fresh and new project, US Postal. Henry started a bit later in OCM (32 years old) but he achieved 3 results in the first season. After two seasons, he became the lead out for another american promise, [rider]1084633[/rider]. He turned out as a great lead out for The Bullet since he was good enough to open the sprint but without ''explosive'' speed at the end, Henry also had few chances as captain or break-away attempts, in one of them he achieved his last result in a hilly stage, very surprinsing for the great majority, but in his words ''...riding close to a 14.000 ft mountain had it's advantage.''
Several injuries during season 50 and part of season 51 forced him to retire while he was expecting to ride a couple more seasons, but accepted the new path in his route, helping more cyclist to achieve their ''american dream.''
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