Amazing and terrible photograph

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Originally Posted by buckman

If you do it for exercise then why draft the guy in front. t's not the freaking tour de france.

A good number of those riding 2 wide in an echelon race at an amature level. It's important training for the real deal...

-spence

[MotoXcowboy]

Originally Posted by spence

A good number of those riding 2 wide in an echelon race at an amature level. It's important training for the real deal...

-spence

Is the road a place to be training like this? maybe find an oval track or someplace safter than 35-45mph heavily traveled roads. look not trying to start a fight here either. I got bigger fish to fry. I have only blown by a few aholes who really deserved it. The racer types in a group who refused to get out of the road/my lane. it probably wasnt the wisest choice at the time but I was aggrivated.

the people riding / traveling together single file, familys whatever as long as there not in the the friggin way its cool. I dont even have a problem with the people towing kids..although I do think its pretty unsafe. I wouldnt do that if i had a child. to many aholes on the road.

although I do hear ya about the sidewalks not being tow friendly...just dont think id get one of those things...there kind of wide/scary...

alright im out of breath on this...gonna go find something more fun to talk about. later

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Originally Posted by MotoXcowboy

Is the road a place to be training like this? maybe find an oval track or someplace safter than 35-45mph heavily traveled roads. look not trying to start a fight here either.

There simply is no other place to ride. It's called "road riding" for a reason...what's funny is that bikers get the same reaction back home in Iowa where there's so much freaking land and everything is spread out. The motorists still throw a fit because someone thinks they have equal share of the road!

I'd say idiots towing boats around here are a much larger problem than the mostly law abiding cyclists out there.

Another angle is where we live, being blessed with such a beautiful scenery. Even better to be able to ride around and enjoy it...

I'm a very defensive cyclist, even more so when I've got my son in tow...although if I really thought someone would hit me from behind, perhaps the only real threat, I don't think I'd be on the road myself.

And I do wear the funny shorts, although I keep my sweater a little looser than the skinsuits I used to wear, and I no longer shave my legs.

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