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Old 07-06-07 | 05:45 AM
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Big Ron
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Joined: Nov 2005
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From: Raleigh, NC
Hot ride home yesterday with a pesky headwind. Had an interesting sighting though...met up with 2 vagabond cyclists. At first I just said hello as I blew by them-they were messing up traffic and going ~16 mph. I was drafting the same traffic that they were holding up, so was moving ~ 25-30 when I passed. I hit a red light though and they caught up to me. When I asked where they were headed, the guy replies "the beach" (Thats about 120 miles minimum from here). That was impressive enough to me that I offered them a gatorade stop at my house if they were interested (if nothing else I could have shown them a better route through town than the 2 lane 55 mph highway they were on). But, for whatever reason they declined my offer. Hopefully they're making out all right. They were totally unprepared as far as I could see. No helmets, no gloves, no pump, riding beater 10 speeds (the girl didn't even have handlebar tape on her bike). It was 92F (33C) and quite humid and they each had 1 small waterbottle on their bikes. Today will be 96 and even more humid and they'll be entering very rural and isolated Eastern NC...Hope they make out OK.
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