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| A Boulder bike path - a monster bike ride on a very hot day |
Is a complete joy!
There are bike paths pretty much everywhere you want to go, even
‘downtown’ – either separate paths (“like a little road”
as Morwenna said) or a separate lane on the road. There are a couple of creeks through the city
and bike paths run beside those – good and shadey during the present hot hot days – which
take you under all the main routes. You
can ride over pedestrian crossings and most pavements are empty (car culture pervades even in Boulder) so that’s OK too.
Drivers are impeccably courteous and unbarging and we are getting the hang of four way stops.
Our landlord left good adult bikes for Mat and me to ride, and Dan and Morwenna have bikes from a super 2nd hand gear shop in our local shopping centre - very excited. Gears for the first time for M. So bikes will be our main form of transport
while here: off we set in single file like a family of ducks. Unsurprisingly, it is quite hilly, and Morwenna
works about 4 times as hard as the rest of us (small wheels) so the legs spin
around and she is getting very tough on the hills. Dan
rides round in a world of Bradley Wiggins.
Morwenna adds: my new bike: it has 6 gears, light blue with
flowers and says ‘Hotrock’. It’s good
going downhill and straight.
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