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Old 11-11-10 | 05:24 PM
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From: Atlanta

Bikes: Cannondale T700s and a few others

At the 1.5 mile mark on the way in I have a steep hill in a sweeping curve where people drive like crap! Took a mirror to the arm there already. Almost a 1/4 mile chug. If it was flat or no curve it would be no big deal but people hug the curve and you are on the inside. To add insult last year a drainage pipe broke under the road and rippled the pavement right in the apex right at the worst part. If there was a side walk on that side I would ride it. Side walk on the other side but you are trapped on that side for almost a mile till you crest the hill and there is foot traffic. This section of road there is a wreck almost every weekend of some idiot running 70mph through the S Curve.
The bummer is my office is moving 2 miles closer to my house (I'm 4 miles now) on Dec 10. The best part of my commute is the part I am loosing that is relatively flat with bike lanes.

This picture doesn't show how steep this is pulling out of the valley. That fence has had a car go through it 5 times in the last year.


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