Blather on Bicycling

Two Oregon Trail Racing stars were featured above the fold on today’s front page news. The huge photo shows Bri-Bart (right butt) and me (left butt) racing a herd of Elk. The caption for this stock image reads as follows, with my editorial comments added:

To encourage motorists and cyclists [we've added the word cyclists because we really want to show this photo to fill space on the front page and we don't have a car/elk picture]  to slow down [even though a cyclists has never broken the ridiculously high 45 mph speed limit on this road] in the Ladd Marsh neighborhood [which is defined as 2 farm houses within sight of each other], area residents [Old Man Joe] often resort to rather unorthodox methods–like deploying “spikes” [i.e. sharp rocks and tar] along Foothill Road. Although the recent hunting seasons have greatly altered herd movements [they now poop on the road like the cattle, instead of in the marsh], elk were frequenting the marsh early this fall [when we snapped this photo].