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Cycling: Columbia, KY, on Cleveland to Gulf bicycle shortcut Cyclists are making their way riding as few as 60 miles and as many as 150 on travel days, and stopping to work when they need money. So far, they say, it's been a great ride. They plan to make a film, but the main idea is to enjoy the trip. Click on headline for full story, photo(s) By Ed Waggener Quite briefly today, Adair County was on the shortcut for two travellers from Cleveland, OH, Vernon Clark and Carmen Gambino, who were headed down KY 61 South after an overnight stay at the KOA Campground in Taylor County. They've been on the road for about three weeks now, they said, coming south through Ohio, passing over to West Virginia at Wheeling, WV, and then on a Southwestward route to Columbia. Some days, in the mountains, they make only about 60 miles; but in the flatter terrain, it is possible to push their steel frame touring bikes, which weigh about 80 pounds, loaded, 150 miles or more. The trip is being made to promote Share the Road, get motorists and bicyclists to respect each other on the same routes. Clark said that drivers have been very courteous to them along the way, thus far. A secondary plan is to produce a movie about the ride to include some of the video they are shooting along the way. But mostly, they said it is about having fun along the way. They're on no particular timetable, they said. And they finance the trip by taking almost any kind of job along the way to earn extra money. Plan to be shrimpers this winter They plan to be in New Orleans in two months or so, where they'll meet a friend, get a shrimping license, and be shrimpers for the winter. Then they'll head to the west coast, and later, complete the movie about the ride. And they may complete a plan they had earlier, to open their own bicycle shop. They are both professional bike mechanics. The bikes they are riding have no brand name, they said. "Called them 'Clarks' or 'Gambinos' or 'Gambinos & Clarks', they said, we just put them together from components. And then again, they said, the bike shop might not happen at all. "We had it all together. The financing. The space was going to be given to us," Vernon Clark said, "until we realized how confining it was going to be." That's when they decided the open road, on two wheels, was the better path, a path which led them through Columbia, KY, on their way to New Orleans. This story was posted on 2010-10-05 14:59:21
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