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Mayors' Ride Bios Larry Black
Which Relay link do you want to ride?
Baltimore to DC
How did you find out about NBG/Mayors' Ride?
Mailings from NBG
Why do you want to do this ride?
Love the Cities, the concept, and most of all riding and being around bicycles and the people involved with them in any way.
Tell us about your touring experience- if little or none, indicate
Everything from supporting a European tandem rally while following on my folding bike with tools and portable stand to doing a century on my HighWheeler. A week as a SanFran commuter on a Breezer citybike borrowed from Joe at the Green Biz conference was one of the more interesting.
Tell us about your bike:
Can anyone have 'A' bike? Highwheeler, Recumbent, Tandems, all used regularly..
Please describe your training regimen:
Ride whenever the opportunity avails. Any bike, anywhere, not particular at all, just have too little time due to keeping thousands of others awheel each year. I never walk when I can ride, and even use a cruiser to get from building to building at USC parents' weekend visiting both kids. 'When at College, do as they do".
How are you making time for this ride?
I'm stealing it from my employer, the owner of the bike shop (Mt Airy & College Park Bikes) - and that's ME. It's service to the sport, so it's good for bicycling. If it's good for bicycling, it's good for the shop.
What are your fears about doing this ride?
Not being at the bike shop if a 'special need' demands my being there. If I can pull it off with the High Wheel, crazy moves by crazy drivers.
Do you have any special skills that you feel would benefit the Mayors' Ride?
Stunts on the High Wheel. Speaking and entertaining skills. Entertaining the Mayor with slapstick and juggling. Wait, Marion Barry is out of office!
If you are involved with other non-profit organizations, please tell us about them:
Mechanic support and training ride organizer and leader for dozens of charity rides. Life member LAB. Board member of Hostelling International Washington DC (Potomac Area) council
Anything else you'd like to share with us?
This box is too small for my gift of gab, but I have been writing a book that will be out upon my retirement from retail bicycle stores. Washington DC Native and area resident since 1950.
While my roots are in DC, I'm also a Baltimore adoptee recently, with a daughter in school there, we have a part-time apartment in the city and am involved with the cycling scene there..
Here is my Over the Bars trick!
E-mail: larry@bike123.com
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