"I remember first meeting Louis Berardinucci while on a club ride en route to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn about 8 years ago. I was riding a tandem bike with my girlfriend at the time and later to be my wife. While waiting at a traffic light, we struck up a conversation.
It started with some banter by Louie and my stoker accusing me of all things for not doing my fare share of the pedaling work. Louis also mentioned that back in nineteen twenty something he rode a similar looking tandem bike with his girlfriend, a Worksman bike - an Ozone Park pedigree.
Sometime during the conversation he mentioned his age. Or perhaps it was Alfredo G. who was riding with us who had mentioned such. I could have sworn at that time he mentioned he was 89. Perhaps when you reach a certain age, you stop keeping count. Who knows?!? I reckon it really doesn’t matter. He’s probably having too much fun to keep tabs on such.
I’m sorry to learn that I missed him at this year’s ENY. I was busy riding the century. I would have liked to converse with him some more. I'm sure I'll catch him soon on another club ride. Surely he would have joked with me about how I need to upgrade my single speed bike’s kiddy sized wheels or something similar.
You can learn allot from him about cycling and life in general just by listening to him speak, when he does speak. He’s a soft spoken, charming man. He is also a real inspiration to see while out on the road two wheelin’. Louie can really put the hammer down and motor, trust me. I hope I look as good and am still cycling when I reach half his age!
It’s a great sight to see his photo on the NYCC home page.
(Thank you Joan J. and Tom/Timothy)."