To get serious, getting into cycling at 42 miles per day every day in Michigan as a complete newbie making $10/hour is asking this guy to do a lot. And just how much spare time does he have to get acquainted with bike shops, hang out on forums, etc.? Now one of us could have done what this college student did to get this guy a bike, a shop to assist him and others to be "coaches". But we didn't. This college student did what he knew.

I don't live where the Free Press is to be had. Our local paper has been going downhill and I no longer subscribe so I would have missed it even if it were local news. Yes, I would like to see bikes being used, but I used to ride year 'round 40 miles from that story. (A measly 6 mile round trip as a student.) Asking a newbie to do that to the tune of 21 miles one way is asking a LOT!! Especially in winter!

Ben