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While I freely admit to busting my ass many, many times on a mountain bike, with surgery and scars to prove it, the people I know who have truly and earnestly gotten so @#cked up that they either died or had their body mangled in such a way that their lives were never quite right again, each and every one of them, were riding road bikes.

I'll taking gravity over a collision with a speeding motor vehicle every single time unless you live in an area with a boundless supply of paved trails.




Read it again.

But to reiterate, "and ride the paved trails. "

"...unless you live in an area with a boundless supply of paved trails. "

Yes, HERE in "paradise", WE DO!


And you may see me tonight With an illegal smile J. Prine