With the 41st Iron Horse Bicycle Classic this weekend, The Telegraph asked: “What’s your excuse for not riding?”

 

 

“I don’t want to hike my bike up any of those hills.”


- Dustin Griego


 

 
“I don’t look good on a bike.”

- Laurel McBrown

 

 
“Because I’ll be cooking food at Steamworks.”


- Whitney Watts

 



 

 
“I didn’t realize it was this weekend, and I just moved here from sea level.”


- Cedar Elford-White
 


 

 

“Cause road riders don’t share the road.”

- Cory Shurtliff

 


 

 

 

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The quad squad

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Recharging the EV market

High gas prices, revamped incentives aimed at rural drivers may help accelerate sales 

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Just how bad was it?

Warm temps, weak snowpack drive second-largest skier drop in industry history