PINKHAM NOTCH — Some things you just don’t forget.
Phil Gaimon was just a college student when he first rode in the Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb. In 2008, the 22-year-old Georgian competing in his second bicycle race up Mount Washington in just two months won the 36th annual Hillclimb.
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