This annual Little 500 bike race at the university mimics the Indy 500 car race by design, beginning with 11 rows of three bikes racing 50 miles over two hours, with pit stops to switch riders and a checkered flag at finish. For all the fanfare, there is a tendency to forget that this is an intramural sport. This isn't Bobby Knight and Hoosier-level intercollegiate stratosphere. This is, by technical definition, one notch above a scratch touch football game in the quad. Or the risk to limb.
Spectacular crashes are almost a certainty in every race.
I mean that it's never been overhyped. It's never been made too much of. It's been right there too many times. . . . I'd be kicking myself for not giving it one more shot. But more than anything, it has legends animating the dust-covered trophies locked in cabinets of the Greek houses and dormitories, which along with independents have offered up teams for generations.