Month: May 2012

Help Change This Perception

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I encountered a rider today. I was approaching an intersection’s green light, and he came at 90 degrees to me. Well, you can guess what happened. In front of all the stopped cars, he plowed right through the red light and turned onto the lane in front of me. It annoyed me right away, so I approached from the rear, sizing up this dude. He was adorned in all the latest cycling fashion, and cruising along on a slick Italian graphite steed. Earphones firmly in place, too, another safety issue. He strangely bounced with each pedal, almost as if sprinting,

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Sunday Breakfast Club – Jim’s Cafe

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37.6 miles total Another edition of the Sunday Breakfast Club.   This time we picked out an unknown place called Jim’s Coney Island Cafe, located on Scottsdale Road between McKellips and Curry in north Tempe. I took the usual roll west on McKellips, assisted by a modest tailwind.  Crossing the river bottom, a cyclist came up and passed me on the left, so I decided to pick up on his wheel.  About 100 yards away from Alma School Rd., we saw the light yellow, and then red, so I began to coast.   The other guy, though, simply stood up on

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