Allis said that his failure to gain success at the Olympics was the biggest disappointment of his career. After a brief stint in the Army, Allis shone in American racing in the early 1970s, organizing along with Dave Chauner the Raleigh team that dominated American racing, and winning the national road championship in 1974, which he won by applying brutal tactics against the newcomer Tommy Officer, the Quebec-Montreal race in 1973, and two runnings of the Mount Washington Hill Climb. He retired from national competition in 1976. Allis achieved all his victories as an amateur. He later recounted that in 1969 he raised the possibility of turning professional with ACBB, but they told him he was too old. He was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 1993. As of 2005, Allis lived in Belmont, Massachusetts, where he was a partner at a local bike store, and had been working with the Harvard University cycling team for over 20 years. , Allis lives in Dublin, New Hampshire. See also List of Princeton University Olympians References Other sources The Ride magazine, issue 103, 2002 History of the Princeton Cycling Team Outside magazine, September 2004 conversations with John Allis, 1992 1942 births Living people American male cyclists Princeton Tigers athletes Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of the United States Sportspeople from Boston Cyclists from Massachusetts United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War