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Old 11-22-13 | 08:10 AM
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From: Maine

Bikes: Kona fire mountain/xtracycle,Univega landrover fs,Nishiki custom sport Ross professional super gran tour Schwinn Mesa (future Xtracycle donor bike)

The town that I live in doesn't have any cycling infrastructure to speak of. There is one MUP (used to be a railroad, it connects three towns, total of 14 miles from one end to the other), fortunately it goes right by my place of employment. Yay for me. In the winter it isn't viable on the bike, snow machines rule it then. The snowmobiles seem to go a lot faster than the ATV's do.

Most of my commute is on Rts. 2 & 4, the major east/west route in west central Maine. The traffic as a rule, is fairly courteous, in almost five years of Commuting I have only been hollered at once, and buzzed dangerously close once, (that woman in her Subaru wasn't six inches off my handlebars). I don't feel that I am taking my life in my hands every time I leave the house, work, and or running errands.

I am not really sure where that puts my town on the cycling friendliness scale. I am glad that I live here, although it would be nice to have more cycling culture in the area. I am pretty much it.
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