Southern Tier participants gathering on Dog Beach in San Diego Amid the melancholy, there is hope, joy, and a bit of envy about the leaders and riders of the 2012 Southern Tier Van tour. On March 12, my friend Dave Points and Sean Sweeney gathered their participants at the Point Loma Hostel in San Diego to repeat the route but not the journey and experiences. The experiences of each cross-country journey is unique to the riders gathered. In most instances, the riders of an epic tour are meeting for the first time. |
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| 2012 Southern Tier participants and leaders |
Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/03/journey-begins-southern-tier-2012.html
Source: http://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/maintenance/i-need-your-help-4-minute-survey/
Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/brajkovic-leaps-into-3rd-place-at-dauphine/
Before reaching first-name-only cult status as a pro baseball player, Ichiro Suzuki was just another kid riding his bicycle to school.
But unlike the fate of most of those kids' bikes, Ichiro's bicycle is on display in the four-story Ichiro Museum his parents own and operate in Toyoyama, Japan.
Seattle Times sports writer Geoff Baker paid a visit to that museum recently in advance of the Mariners heading to Japan to open their season against the Oakland A's. Baker describes the museum in "Shrine to Ichiro, baseball greatness is just a mom-and-pop operation." He writes:
"But that celebrity stuff is kept largely to the side. More front and center is the bicycle Ichiro rode to high school ...
Source: http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2012/3/23/5021592.html