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SPORT: Skateboarding for women; a bike for rusty adults...
...Tour de France has filled you with dreams of chasing the yellow jersey but watching the race on television is the closest you've come to a bike since childhood, you might want to check out the Electra Townie. Designed for rusty or neophyte adult riders, the retro cruiser combines the geometries of recumbent and traditional bicycles to create a new kind of vehicle: it has a seat and center of gravity lower than a standard bike's, making it easier to climb onto and off of than your average 10speed. The Townie's innovative design also lets you place...
...first taste of another world. Traveling through communist East Germany, "I actually noticed a very perceptible difference--the darkness, the lack of automobiles, the dark clothes. It just seemed bleak. And I sensed the foreboding unwelcomeness to it." One day he went so far as to ride his bike through Checkpoint Charlie and into East Berlin to look around and visit Hitler's bunker. When Richard realized where his son had gone, John recalls, "My dad was not thrilled. He explained to me that I could have [caused] an international incident. I think he took my passport. I think...
According to Kelly, though, it has not been sheer work ethic that has underpinned Shoemaker’s dramatic improvement on the bike in such a short period...
...right attitude to be a good cyclist,” Kelly said. “I think she’s very intelligent and you have to be very smart on the bike. She uses her intelligence to race smart...