Bicycles and Bicycle Racing: their pleasures, discontents, and dangersn

I see I made a new word in the title..

Here's the thread re Roger and his bicycle..
He can keep us up to date if he feels like it.

https://able2know.org/topic/95384-1

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/may/09/chris-froome-knocked-off-bike-hit-and-run-driver

You know, after my stroke last year I haven't ridden once. I just know I would take a fall while trying to dismount. Also, my balance isn't as good as it used to be, though riding doesn't take a great sense of balance.

I haven't forgotten your and Diane's visit to the hospital after that accident. Also the emails, cards and calls from a2k people from as far away as Australia, Canada, and Germany. When I got home, I had something like forty people to reply to, one way or another.

We three share that, then, you and Diane and I, re balance. She is better at it..
My problem is primarily paving, me the retired landscape architect, specifier and approver, or not, of paving contractors' work for decades..
It's sort of like retribution for any past design sins. On the other hand, Albuquerque is especially odd, and I've been to lotsa places. I think we agree on that, particularly re signage. Re paving, some parking lots are fine and dandy, and some are tricky paving puzzles. I've done some shopping center paving design, and lots of parking design, so I get the hows, but that's not recent.


One of my own bicycle trips was when I went crazy and bought a Motobecane, and then attached it to my rusty old Fiat convertable for a trip down into Baja. I made it through the TJ streets with the car and bike, back and forth. I'm familiar, somewhat, with TJ, friends with family there, but I look back on that as one of my dicey moves.

In 1983 my younger older brother decided he was going to be a competitive bicycle racer. He trained really hard while going to college until 1985 when he was hit and killed by a truck. I don't have much call to ride myself.

McG - I'm sorry to hear that, even now, just a person typing.

RIP

Interesting title in Libération:

Le Tour de France tourne en rond (the Tour de France comes back full circle?)
http://www.liberation.fr/sports/2018/07/29/le-tour-de-france-tourne-en-rond_1669645

ISIS Claims Responsibility For Deadly Attack On Cyclists In Tajikistan

July 31, 20185:17 AM ET
SCOTT NEUMAN, NPR

Two Americans are among four foreign cyclists killed over the weekend in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan when a car swerved to hit them and then assailants jumped out of the vehicle and stabbed the victims. The Tajik government accused a banned Islamist party of being behind the attack, and the Islamic State also claimed responsibility.

The U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan confirmed the attack, which occurred in Danghara district, about 60 miles southeast of the capital, Dushanbe. The New York Times describes the area as "a picturesque mountain road that has been popular with Western bicyclists for its dramatic and remote scenery in a region close to the border with Afghanistan."

The other two cyclists killed in the attack were from Switzerland and the Netherlands, officials said. None of the four were immediately identified. Three others in the same group survived the attack, including one with a knife wound, officials said.

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/31/634220250/isis-claims-responsibility-for-deadly-attack-on-cyclists-in-tajikistan