Letter: Praise for bike trails, loan of bike
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Tue October 13 2009
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Posted Oct 13, 2009
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After visiting family in Ames last week, I must comment on
how impressed I am with the quality and quantity of bike
trails in central Iowa.
My current home in Austin, Texas, may have bragging rights
to being the home of Lance Armstrong, but we have nothing
close to the network of lanes and rails-to-trails bike
paths that you have so wonderfully provided.
While visiting, I had hoped to compete in the Cy-Man
Triathlon, but couldn't find anywhere in Ames or Des Moines
to rent me a bike.
Huge thanks to the guys at Kyle's Bikes in Ankeny for
loaning a great bike to a total stranger.
Owner Kyle Robinson and his gem of a bike shop on Ankeny's
southwest side took the time to fit me on a bike, loan it
to me for four days free of charge, asking only for a
Christmas card as payment.
Thank you, Kyle, and thank you, Iowa. The card will be in
the mail.
- Nancy Edwards Moore (AHS '76), Austin, Texas
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