local stuff...
mind you that the city of Olney has MAJOR bicycle companies located here :
Pacific Cycles ( which owns Schwinn,Moongoose, Roadmaster etc etc etc) not the Pacific cycle in Taiwan which makes foldies ... PAcific has a distribution center here and moves millions of bikes through Olney
Sapim USA for spokes, Unior Tools, EsjotUSA, Provelo ( Distributor who sells to Dealers only ) Magura, SKS
Hoss ( importer of tires and locks ) Highway 2 ( Brooks, Continental ) and I am sure I forgot somebody

All in a town with less than 10000 peeps living here....in the middle of nowhere.... with that in mind ...


we had a traintrack through town and going south over a couple nice bridges and rolling forest and fields which was abandanded... that train track would be perfect to ride from town to the Industrial park and further on ...

a couple of industry folks were trying to make it a bike path ....

and a couple of old church ladies shut it down with the explanation that female bike riders would be in danger of being rapped !!!


No bike lanes, routes, trails..... just drunken pickup drivers which seem to try out how close their extended mirrors can come to your head ....


Thor