'We've got the City to Ourselves!

Rest of article to be transcribed when I have time.  Just let it be known that the Secret Service guys really liked my bicycle and I was allowed to ride my bicycle where others could not.

 

 

It looks like I was leading the pack, but it was only coming down the hill.  You see I have 64 gears on that bike.  And they were all designed for coming down hills not going up them.  In the case of this ride there was a hill that was 12 km long.  It felt like 200  and it took me a better part of the race to get up it.  I would bet that at least thousands past me going up it, however when coming down that hill I must have passed thousands.  A  Washington officer clocked me on his radar as going 56 mph.  I was so scared it was fun,  as I came down the hill in 64th gear like a bat out of hell passing those very same people and the way it looked in the picture I was leading the pack.  But I only lead it for about 12 seconds.

 

But it was a very good 12 seconds.

 

Les

 

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