GET READY TO RIDE: Velodrome in Rochester Hills will host national bicycle-track race (Detroit Free

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In its heyday, bicycle-track racing drew as many spectators to the original Madison Square Garden in New York as the boxing matches or ice hockey games played there. Theater patrons would arrive in tuxedos and furs and cheer raucously for athletes who were every bit as famous -- and rich -- as Shaquille O'Neal and Terrell Owens today.

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