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This is the article in Bicycling Magazine I was referring to on Nov. 26 when I wrote about the cyclist on the wrong side of the road. It is directlly from Bicycling Magazine and well worth reading if you haven’t already. It makes a good comapanion piece to The Bike Nazi’s post on Cycling 101 for Non-cylcists. –Corrie
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Every time we take to the open road, we entrust our lives to a safety net of legal protection and basic human decency. That system has failed.By David Darlington
BY ALMOST ANY MEASURE, Sonoma County should qualify as cycling heaven. Spanning more than a million acres from the Pacific coast to the Mayacamas Mountains, it has every kind of riding, from flat to steep to gently rolling, much of it on lightly traveled roads through quiet forests, farmland and vineyards-a pastoral landscape that, blessed by a balmy climate, amounts to a paradise for two-wheeled travel. That, no doubt, is why race organizers chose it for two stages of the 2007 Tour of California-the first one rolling up the coast and heading inland toward Santa Rosa on Occidental Road, the second passing through -Sonoma and Napa Valleys via Trinity Grade, an 8.2 percent slope of chaparral.