MICHIGAN

BICYCLIST

Also In This Issue:

• Rollin’ with Kevin Degen
• Postcards from Tuscany
• Road Emergency
• You Be the Judge

2008 LMB
A nnual
Winter 2009 Report

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LMB Region Directors
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Region 2: MICHAEL SPROUL
Region 3: DANTE LANZETTA, Chair
Region 4: JIM CARPENTER, Vice Chair
Region 5: VACANT
Region 6: RORY NEUNER
Region 7: MICHAEL BOERSMA
Region 8: BARB SCHMID
Region 9: DOUG COOK
Region 10: CLIFF MILLER
Region 11: MICHAEL SHEEAN, Secretary
Region 12: CHRISTINA RIDDLE
At Large: PHIL WELLS
At Large: MIKE EGAN, Treasurer
At Large: DAVE DUFFIELD
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ANNE BELANGER, Tour Director - Sunrise Adventure
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uick Release
By  DANTE LANZETTA, LMB Board Chair
Winter’s as nasty as I can remember, I’ve been blessed with a bacterial
infection and pneumonia, and we just came from burying a dear friend.
(As for the economy, don’t even go there!) It’s hard to send the kind of
positive message we all need in the depths of Michigan winter.
Yet, to lose a friend, you first have to have made one. Our friend Pasquale
Marion didn’t have much of a bike connection. He came closest by riding
a bike everywhere when he just couldn’t afford a car. He smoked; even
cancer couldn’t help him quit.
He gave Lance his propers, and LeMond before him, but his true loves were baseball,
football, hockey and basketball; I’m not sure in what order. Oh, I forgot horse racing — and
gambling.
Thirty years ago, he cut my hair; he cut it from then to last Thanksgiving. He cut and styled
my wife Jane’s hair; he cut our kids’ hair before they fled the nest. He worked with care and
pride — to the point where it hurt his income. He cut the hair of some wealthy people, but he
took just as great care of people no one else wanted.
Pasquale wasn’t just our friend; he was a friend to everyone he met. It was hard for him
to hold a grudge, no matter how badly someone treated him, or how deeply he was hurt.
(“Knuckleheads,” he might call them.) He’d say, “I’m tough; I can take it,” even as he faced
the ravages of cancer, and treatments often equally painful. He was terrified, but he was also
truly tough.
The last few years were very hard. Sometimes unemployed and always underemployed, he
lost a home, his car, even his telephone — a hairdresser’s lifeline. Often worried, sometimes
down, he never came up our stairs without a beatific smile. He never failed to love up our dogs
and our grandkids. I never saw anyone treat nurses and aides and waiters with more courtesy
and honest appreciation. For him, it was natural. And there is no one I’d trust like him.
And now, it is hard to grasp that we won’t see that smile again, or feel his deep concern for
our small life problems, even when he himself was in need or despair. Memory floods with
his kindness and empathy, through Jane’s cancer, my parents deaths (yes, he cut my mom’s
hair when she lived with us), to losing two dogs to cancer. No one felt others’ pain as deeply
as Pasquale.
So, what’s this got to do with bikes? Think of all you know and love, people not necessarily
much like you, and ask how many you met through cycling.
Before the Internet as we know it, CompuServe filled a similar role. There many people
first experienced the now-common “online community.” I joined the Cancer Forum and the
Bicycling Forum, which led me to people I came to value, many to this day. Back then, a former
star like George Mount and a new racer like Robbie McEwen might join the discussion.
Through the Cycling Forum, I met Dan Langille, who picked me up at the airport and
showed me Wellington, New Zealand, and Aidan McGhie of Glasgow, who came down to
London to meet us. Ken Lyons of Arlington, Virginia sent me the first cancer links. Since
then, we’ve met on Chincoteague Island almost every year, where we ride 40 miles a day — on
a three-mile wildlife loop.
Joining us there have been: the Rev. Kim and Kevin Brugman, also of Virginia, and later
their boys and tandems; Bill Whetstone, the Forum’s “sysop,” formerly of Rhode Island, now
Florida; David Loewenstein who became a Miami Beach bike cop; and Dianne and Mike
Clingerman, who have hosted me and Ken Lyons for TOSRV for several years. I’ve ridden
with Bill Stevenson in Florida and Al Fischer from Western Michigan, among many. I’m still
looking forward to riding with Barb and Larry Reade of Buffalo.
See Quick Release, page 2
From the Executive Director
Dear Fellow Bicyclists,
This past year has been very challenging to
many in Michigan. Whether it be the economy,
high fuel prices, the precarious position of
Detroit’s “Big Three,” job losses or mortgage fore-
closures, everyone in Michigan has been affected.
On the bright side, the high cost of gas brought out more bicycle
commuters than we have seen in a long time. I am afraid this fall
and winter’s lowered gas prices may put them back in their cars by
summer, but at least they got a taste of what bike commuting is like,
and they may be a little friendlier when they encounter bicyclists.
The unsettled economy and high gas prices also directly affected
our 2008 tour registrations. They were on par with 2007 until late
spring, when gas prices started to rise. The higher they got, the
slower the registrations.
Quick Release, Cont. from page 1
So many friends from so many places — and their fami-
lies. Cycling brought us together and binds us still. It would
take another page — or more — to list cycling friends in
Michigan, not least of them LMB’s Board members, Tour
Directors and Staff. (Yes, even those who routinely pound
me into the pavement when we ride.)
Through cycling, I met Lucinda Means, Nancy Krupiarz ,
Todd Scott, Tim Potter and John Waterman, all ardent advo-
cates as well as cyclists. But there’s only one Michigan ‘bike
person’ I’ve known as long as Pasquale.
I met Kevin Degen almost 24 years ago, when I was run-
ning for local office. Late that cold, snowy election evening,
he asked me to watch his trike while he made the long climb
to the polling station. In this edition, you too will meet him
(if you haven’t already).
When you do, cherish him. And hold fast to all your bike
buddies — and everyone dear to you. We can’t afford to lose
a single friend. God bless Kevin, and all of you in 2009.

In spite of these challenges, the League of Michigan Bicyclists And ciao, Pasquale; with luck, I’ll ride with you when we
(LMB) had a good year over all. As the following Annual Report meet again.
shows, our finances finished in the black for the second year in a
row, which is always good news. And, while we were busy enhanc-
ing our traditional efforts, we launched several new ones.
ow Available!
We are blessed with wonderful volunteers and staff, who enable
us to accomplish so much. We are also thankful to all the bicyclists
[N ]­
of Michigan who support our efforts. As we continue to promote
bicycling and increase the safety of bicyclists on Michigan road-
ways, we need every bicyclist’s help. Whether you are an active
bicycle advocate or ‘just’ model good bicycle behavior, it all helps.
We especially need good role models.

I would say that safety is my number-one mission. Two things

contribute to your safety on the road. The first is a helmet; if you
are in a crash, you have no better friend. A close second is bright,
visible clothing. They will help prevent you from being in a crash.
Black may be fashionable, but it also makes you darned hard to see.
Be safe, be seen in 2009.

Sincerely yours,

Rich Moeller
Executive Director Updated What Every Michigan
Bicyclist Must Know booklets. 
888-642-4537 www.LMB.org

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A
mong the photos
in the League of
Michigan Bicy-
clists’ annual ride calendar
most years is a fellow on an
upright adult-size tricycle.
The rider is Kevin Degen,
who last year pedaled just
over 3,000 miles. In 2007,
he rode about 2,700 miles.
What makes those dis-
tances amazing is he only
rides from early May to
mid November — and he
can only pedal with one
leg, his left.
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Kevin Degen
KEEPS ON ROLLIN’
By  MIKE ELIASOHN, LMB Member, St. Joseph, MI
Degen, 51, who lives – alone – in Lathrup
Village, a suburb of Detroit, was born with
cerebral palsy, a brain abnormality resulting
in weakness of the arms and legs and some-
times other disabilities. “When I was born, my
doctors told my parents to put me away...in an
institution,” he said. “I would be a burden.”
But his parents took him home to Birming-
ham, and, with the aid of two brothers and two
sisters, taught him to be self-sufficient. “I had
four loving grandparents. Every time they came
and wanted to help me, my parents said, ‘No,
let him do everything by himself.’” Thinking
it would be good exercise, his parents bought
him a tricycle when he was three, “and I seemed
to like it.”
In the 1970s, Kevin got his first adult trike,
which had three speeds and weighed 80 pounds,
he said. That was when he discovered he could
use his cycling to raise money for charities. The
American Heart Association was conducting a
fundraiser on the Oakland University campus,
so Kevin went door-to-door in his neighbor-
hood collecting pledges of either a flat amount
or a certain amount per mile.
“In the beginning, I had no idea how far I
could go,” he said, so his neighbors typically
pledged $1 or $2 a mile. Kevin rode more than
80 miles. Everyone paid and he raised $10,000
for the Heart Association. “But next year, when
I came back, they (his neighbors) were wise
to me.” Pledges per mile were significantly
smaller.
He achieved what he called his biggest
goal in 1995, when he and 26 other riders with
disabilities pedaled 3,065 miles from Los
Angeles, California, to Washington, D.C. The
ride took seven weeks, with only five days off,
with typical distances of 85 to 100 miles a day.
The most was 130 miles. “It took us 13 hours. It
was a long day.” The ride was conducted by
Kenny Rehab, for which he raised more than
$60,000 in donations.
In the early 1990s, at the 24-hour ride Wol-
verine 200 on Belle Isle, Degen pedaled 230
miles in 22 hours. He was still riding his heavy
trike. Members of the Detroit-area Wolverine
Sports Club “saw me out there every year,”
Kevin said. “They thought there must be a
better bike for me out there.”
They bought him a made-in-Britain Bob
Jackson with 27 speeds, which he rode until
the late 1990s or early 2000s, when Wright &
Filippis, a Michigan company that sells equip-
ment for people with disabilities, bought him
a Canadian-made trike. (Kevin doesn’t know
the maker.) But, like the Bob Jackson, “I wore
that one out.”
The problem is that Kevin sits on the trike
offset to the left side to pedal with his left
leg, which twists the frame. A friend, Florent
“Buff” Muylaert of Mount Clements, decided
to help Kevin. It was in 2005, Muylaert said,
“I had just committed myself to collect money
and get this guy a new bicycle.” He started
seeking donations at the MS 150 (-mile) ride
from Detroit to East Lansing and back and from
Kevin’s club, the Slow Spokes Bicycle Club. He
ultimately raised almost $14,000.
Muylaert’s next step was to find someone
to build the trike, which led to four engineers
who volunteered. All cyclists, they work at
the Toyota Technical Center in Ann Arbor
and had seen Kevin while participating in the
MS 150. The four were Brian Scheidewind,
Christian Chock, Adam Holstrom and Brady
Gambatese, whose bosses gave their OK, as
long as they worked on the project after work-
ing hours. (Toyota contributed $2,500 to the
project, Muylaert said.)
THE NEW TRICYCLE
The first tricycle the Toyota engineers built
for Kevin had two wheels in front, the thinking
being it would be more stable. But, the first
time he got on it, he said, he and it tipped over.
Because of the offset (and very upright) way
Kevin sits on the trike, Chock wrote, “...his
center of gravity was set just over the single
rear wheel, which was not a stable enough
condition for him.” And, Kevin said, his right
leg, which hangs loose when he rides, would
hit the right front wheel.
“Then they started all over again.” The
second and successful effort closely resembles
a traditional British racing/touring trike, with
two wheels in the rear. The frame was made
from TruTemper OX steel tubing, except for
the carbon fiber seat tube. The Toyota team
cut and ground the frame tubes, which were
welded by Mark Groendal of Energy Return
Bicycles, near Grand Rapids, whose normal
product is mountain bikes.
The rear axle was custom made by Long-
staff Cycles in the United Kingdom. To save
weight and reduce complexity, only the right
wheel is driven, according to Chock.
The trike has three chain rings (30-39-53
teeth) and a nine-speed cassette (12-32 teeth).
There’s a bar-end shifter for the front derailleur
and a twist shifter for the rear. (Kevin does
all shifting with his left hand.) Wheels/tires
are 700x23c.
The seating position is offset two inches
to the right, to counteract Degen’s off-center
riding position. To make it easier for him to
get on and off, the trike uses a seat post made
for mountain biking, which enables the rider
to raise or lower the saddle by using a lever on
the handlebars. Thus, Kevin can lower the seat
to get from his wheelchair onto the trike, then
raise the saddle to proper height for pedaling,
and reverse the process.
Kevin was presented with the new trike at
a ceremony March 30, 2008, attended by his
supporters at the St. Hubert Catholic Church
activity center in Harrison Township. (That’s
Kevin’s church and members were among
donors to the project.) Incidentally, Degen
has tried a recumbent tricycle, but, on one,
“I don’t get enough power. My power is on
the downstroke, up and down,” he explained.
Plus, after so many years riding upright
trikes, he’s used to pedaling in that position.
Left: Kevin’s seating position offset two inches to the right. Top: “Gassing up,” Kevin’s new trike during the 2008 PALM.
NOT A LONE RIDER
Degen usually goes on organized rides
with other riders, rather than riding alone.
“I’d much rather ride with someone in case
something happens,” like falling off or getting
a flat tire. He goes slowly around curves, but,
“I’ve fallen a lot of times,” often on gravel or
slopes. “When I fall, I lie there for a couple
of minutes...until I get my wits. I don’t let it
get to me.”
Kevin likes to ride 100 miles in a day,
which takes him all day. For instance, at the
Assenmacher 100 in the Flint area in August,
he started at 7 a.m. and finished at 6:30 p.m.
“When I ride, I like to ride all day,” he said.
“It makes me feel good. I like to be out in
the open.”
Kevin’s favorite fund-raising rides are the
two MS 150 rides in Michigan each year and
See Degen, page 8
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2008 LMB Annual Report
MEMBERSHIP FINANCE
In 2008 the number of paid LMB members increased by 20%. LMB finished 2008 in the black for the second year in a row.
Our renewal rate for the year was 66%. Despite a decline in bike-tour revenue, we still were able to control
expenses and finish below budget. A copy of the 2007 Audit is
Membership (Individuals) 2008 2007 available on request.
Individual/Family Members 1077 866
Lifetime Members 102 98 End of Year Financial Trends (in 000s)
Total Members 1179 964 End of Program &
Tours
Year Year Cash Administration
Net
Balance Net
Membership (Groups) 2008 2007
2000 $ 84 $ 66 -$47
Shops 31 27
2001 $128 $ 82 -$38
Organizations 40 46
2002 $167 $ 89 -$50
Clubs 33 33
2003 $183 $ 67 -$51
Total Members 104 106
2004 $220 $ 87 -$50
2005 $178 $ 41 -$83
LMB TOURS 2006 $165 $ 80 -$93
2007 $189 $108 -$84
LMB annually conducts the
2008 $194 $ 88 -$82
Shoreline Bicycle Tours to:
• Provide funding for the overall operation of LMB;
• Showcase bicycle tourism opportunities in Michigan; FUND RAISING
• Demonstrate that bicyclists can be responsible road users.
Contributions from our supporters ensure that LMB continues
2008 enrollment for all tours was 966, down from 2007’s to provide bicycle education and to advocate for bicycling. In
record enrollment of 1052. 2008, contributions financed:
We thank our Tour Directors for their outstanding efforts:
• A new edition of “What Every Bicyclist Must Know;”
Kirt Livernois (Lansing), Pedal ’n’ Paddle; Anne Belanger
• Support of Lucinda Means Advocacy Day and our year-
(Rogers City), Sunrise Adventure; Carrie Baic (Williamsburg),
round advocacy mission; and
Shoreline West; Fred Dore (Commerce), Michigan’s Upper
• Development of education pieces for the law-enforcement
Peninsula; and Sue Moretto (Redford), One-Day Ride Across
community.
Michigan. Forty more volunteers staffed these tours. A special
Our two major fund-raising efforts for the projects listed above
“thank you” to all of the wonderful folks who make our tours a
wonderful experience. are the $1 per Rider Program and our year-end Annual Appeal,
which together raised $14,470 in 2008.
Twenty-one rides contributed $1 per rider
Tour Enrollment PnP Sunrise MUP West ODRAM Totals to the League. Together, these rides raised
Total Riders 2008 103 162 126 445 130 966 $7,955. 120 donors contributed $6,515 to our
Oldest 74 84 75 85 72 78 2008 year-end LMB Annual Appeal. We
thank everyone who supported our efforts in
Youngest 7 8 5 4 16 88
2008 with their donations.
Average Age 44.88 53.05 52.09 51.29 48.15 49.89
MI % of Riders 84% 75% 52% 38% 92% 68%
Comparison:
Total Riders 2007 104 167 148 499 134 1052
Total Riders 2006 66 59* 88 437 143 793
* Grand Traverse Adventure in 2006

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RESOURCES
We provide a wide variety of resources to Michigan bicyclists bicyclists to state groups
and those coming to vacation in Michigan. Through our web and MDOT on bicycling
site, e-mails and telephone calls, we provide a valuable service issues. For example, we
to bicyclists seeking information, from where to ride to what are serve on MDOT’s Context
Michigan’s laws. In 2008, we answered over 6,000 inquiries. Sensitive Solution Steering
In addition, with the Michigan Department of Transportation Committee, the Governor’s
(MDOT), we distribute Bicycle-suitability Maps of Michigan Bike/Pedestrian Safety Task
counties and regions. Last year, we distributed 1,048 maps. Force, and the Michigan Safe
Also with MDOT, we distribute Tourism Packets to people Routes to School (SR2S)
interested in learning more about bicycling in Michigan. In 2008, Network Committee.
we mailed out 1,350 Tourism Packets. Last June, Represen-
We also sold 62 route maps of our tours through our tatives Andy Coulouris
online store. (D-Saginaw) and David
Last winter, LMB members Ralph and Janet Emmons Palsrok (R-Manistee) intro-
approached us about sharing their love for bicycle touring with duced House Bills 6299 and
our members. The result is our first “Cross-State Bicycle 6300, which enhance penal-
Route,” through Monroe, Lenawee, Hillsdale, Branch, St. Joseph, ties for moving violations
Cass and Berrien Counties. causing injury or death to
The maps are now completed, and Ralph and Janet have bicyclists and other vulner-
ridden the route to verify their accuracy. When completed, the able roadway users. Senator
project will include the maps, lists of services along the route, Tom George (R-Kalamazoo)
and a tourism description of each county. We expect to have the introduced companion Sen-
complete maps and back-up information online by Spring 2009. ate bills (1492 and 1493)
We are working with the Adventure Cycling Association with the same language.
(ACA) and Josh DeBruyn Senator George also introduced a Senate bill (1494) to require a
of MDOT on the National bicycle curriculum in the Driver’s Education curriculum. All of
Bicycle Network. We these bills are currently waiting for the new legislature to take
already have several them up again this year.
mapped routes (including In March, our first Michigan Bicycle Summit drew 67 partici-
the recently completed pants. Topics included Complete Streets, Advocacy 101, On-Road
Cross-State Route) avail- Bicycle Facilities, and Building Local Coalitions. In addition,
able for their use. We have LMB staff shared new education programs aimed at children and
also recently revised the law enforcement. We received 100%-positive feedback from Sum-
ODRAM route map, a mit participants.
key route crossing central In June, seventy bicyclists from around Michigan joined us
Michigan and connect- in Lansing for LMB’s Fourth Annual Lucinda Means Advocacy
ing to our West Shoreline Day. Representative Andy Coulouris from Saginaw introduced his
Route and ACA routes. enhanced-penalties bill (see above) to the group.
Also new at 2008’s Advocacy Day were meetings with legisla-
tors specifically scheduled to discuss LMB’s three advocacy goals:
ADVOCACY • Representative Coulouris’s bill;
• Protection of Act 51 funding and more accountability on
LMB monitors the state legislature and advocates with our
how it is used; and
state legislators on behalf of bicyclists statewide. We provide
• Support for “Complete Streets” in Michigan.
bicyclists with resource information on local issues. We represent

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 be placed on roads with shoulders six feet or more wide. Darrell
Thompson reported this to MDOT, LMB and the Bay City Times.
An article in the Times quoted the region’s MDOT manager as say-
ing that he didn’t think Thompson “should be riding in the road. We
[meaning MDOT] don’t promote that.”
The region manager called our office and apologized about the
comment, saying that it was “taken out of context” and that he and
MDOT are very supportive of bicycling. He went on to say they are
going fix the problem by widening the shoulders on this stretch,

PHOTO BY KIRT D. LIVERNOIS

making it safer for bicyclists, although that probably won’t happen
until spring.
We are continuing to work with MDOT to ensure they are fol-
lowing their guidelines. We have also communicated to them our
Michigan bicycle advocates in front of the State Capitol at the 2008 Lucinda Means Bicycle concern that center-line rumble strips endanger cyclists.
Advocacy Day in Lansing.

LMB is currently building awareness of “Complete Streets,” a EDUCATION

policy to make public roadways available to all legal users. It was
a major part of the Michigan Bicycle Summit. We are also looking Over the last nine
for other Michigan partners to help promote this concept in the months, LMB’s popular
legislature. The Governor’s “Healthy Kids, Healthy Michigan” “What Every Bicyclist
Community Policy Action Team has identified Complete Streets as Must Know” booklet has
a priority to recommend to the Governor. LMB Associate Direc- been completely revised
tor John Lindenmayer, who represents LMB on this group, will be and is now available.
monitoring their work to see how it might benefit our Complete We have been working
Streets objective. on a Law Enforcement
An article in the spring issue of Michigan Bicyclist Magazine web site, modeled after
discussed Act 51 Accountability. We developed an Act 51 position Illinois’s site. We presented
paper and asked our legislators to pursue this goal. Meanwhile, we the materials for the new
are working with MDOT to enhance the form that recipients of Act site to the Bike/Pedestrian
51 monies have to file annually. MDOT has also agreed to provide Safety Team of the Gover-
easier access to these reports by making them available electroni- nor’s Traffic Safety Advi-
cally online. sory Committee (GTSAC)
Detroit newspapers reported police plans to enforce a neglected and to the entire Commit-
city ordinance requiring all bicyclists in the city to register their tee. We have been asked to
bikes or face a $75 fine. Detroit-area bicycling advocates turned deliver the law enforcement training presentation as a session at
this lemon into lemonade. After they met with the police and other the Michigan Traffic Safety Summit in March 2009.
city departments, a resolution repealing the ordinance was intro- SR2S in Michigan asked LMB to develop a program to train
duced in and passed by the City Council. SR2S personnel to put on a bicycle rodeo and provide general
Region One’s Steve Roach, long-time bicycle education. We held our pilot training program in Detroit
bicycle advocate Todd Scott and others last fall. We anticipate conducting at least five of these training
were all instrumental in this ‘win.’ sessions in 2009.
In early summer, MDOT installed Working with the Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Coun-
rumble strips on M-13 from Kawkawlin to cil (Mid-MEAC), we have developed a presentation for Bicycle
Standish, where the shoulders were only Commuting Classes. Mid-MEAC tested the presentation for us
three feet wide, creating an unsafe situa- in Lansing area classes last May. It is now available to anyone in
tion for bicyclists. According to MDOT’s Michigan who wants to conduct bike commuting classes.
own guidelines, rumble strips are only to

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MICHIGAN RIDE CALENDAR
LMB’s signature publication,
our annual “Michigan Ride Cal-
endar,” continues to be an essen-
tial resource for bicycle enthu-
siasts in Michigan and beyond.
With support from MDOT, the
League published and distributed
50,000 Ride Calendars, listing
150 bicycling events in Michigan
for 2008.
The Ride Calendar is the
primary means of promotion
for most of these events. It is
distributed extensively throughout the state at MDOT Welcome
Centers, by Convention & Visitors Bureaus, to all known bicycle
clubs and shops, and at many bicycle-related events, to all LMB
members, and to individuals requesting Michigan biking and tour-
ism information. The League also supplies copies to all Michigan
legislators, who distribute them to constituents.
SPECIAL EVENTS
LMB assisted in two statewide special
events, the annual Ride of Silence and
the Bike to Work (Smart Commute)
activities held in many communities
across Michigan. With LMB’s promotion
assistance, these events continue to grow
each year.
COMMUNICATIONS
We have made the Michigan Bicyclist Magazine even more valu-
able to our members. Editor John Lindenmayer has made the content
more “cutting edge,” and introduced color to freshen its look.
On the first of every month, we send an E-newsletter to all LMB
members who have given us an e-mail address. This has proven to
be a very effective way to communicate with our members.
John has also created an e-mail group for each LMB region.
We hope they will enable LMB to communicate more effectively
on regional issues.

Degen, Cont. from page 4

the Make-a-Wish Foundation’s three-day, 300-mile ride in the
Traverse City area, even though it’s very hilly. He has raised
more than $150,000 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society over the
past 25 years. His usual last tour of the season is the Clinton
River Riders’ Blue Water Ramble in the St. Clair area in early
October. Sometimes he rides 100 miles but last year, riding with
friends and their children, did only 40.
After the Ramble, he continued doing the Slow Spokes club
ride every Sunday until mid-November. The ride is 40 miles and
when the weather was nice, according to Muylaert, Kevin
parked his van 12.5 miles away and pedaled to the starting
point and back for an additional 25 miles.
After that, Degen usually doesn’t ride again until the
Downriver Cycling Club’s Metro Grand Spring Tour in the
New Boston area on the first weekend in May. “I don’t ride
year-round because I hate cold weather and I get arthritis
real bad. In warm weather, it seems to disappear.”
At the Metro Grand, he usually rides 62 miles. “People
say, ‘How can you do 62 miles the first time out?’ I tell
them I’ve been cooped up all winter long...and I’m dying
to go.” KEVIN DEGEN PHOTOS COURTESY
DOTTIE DELEHANTY, MIKE ELIASOHN,
ELLIE KNESPER, KEN MORRIS.

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You Be the Judge (Part 1)
By SARAH W. COLEGROVE & TODD E. BRIGGS
One of the reasons we con-
tribute articles to the League of
Michigan Bicyclist Magazine
is to promote biking and bike
safety. The key to a safe road for
all is educating both cyclists and
motor vehicle operators as to the actual rules of the road. It is
also our hope that police officers and judges can be counted on
to protect cyclists’ rights and enforce motor vehicle laws fairly
and accurately. This edition of “You Be The Judge” is based on
an actual legal case in which both the police officer and judge
made good decisions. Part One will list the facts and provide a
primer on to what statutes may apply to the case. Part Two, in
the next issue, will provide the judge’s actual opinion, as well
as some extra insight from us. Please email us your thoughts
and opinions at briggscolegrove@aol.com and we will print the
best answers, along with our discussion of the case.
FACTS:
Weather: Clear, sunny day last August.
Time of Day: Approximately 3:30 PM.
The Scene of the Accident: Two-lane road, going north/south,
speed limit 25 mph.
The Cyclist: Cyclist was traveling south on a steep hill. The
cyclist rode a triathlon bike with aero bars affixed. At the time
of the accident, the cyclist was biking in the aero position and
traveling approximately 35-40 mph down the hill.
The Motor Vehicle: The motor vehicle driver was traveling
north on the two-lane road. He initiated a left turn at an inter-
section (no stop light or stop signs). The driver was traveling
approximately 15 mph when he was making his left turn.
The Accident: The cyclist and motor vehicle collided at the
intersection, before the driver could complete his left turn. The
cyclist sustained a broken wrist, broken collarbone and road
rash. The cyclist was wearing a helmet. The motor vehicle
sustained bumper and hood damage. No witnesses.
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ISSUE:
Who had the right of way? Should the driver and/or the cyclist
be issued a traffic citation? Why or why not?
POSSIBLE APPLICABLE STATUTES:
(1) MCL 257.657: Each person riding a bicycle upon a
roadway has all of the rights and is subject to all of the
duties applicable to drivers of motor vehicles.
(2) MCL 257.650: The driver of a vehicle within an
intersection intending to turn left shall yield the right of
way to a vehicle approaching from the opposite direction
which is within the intersection or so close to the interse
tion as to constitute an immediate hazard.
(3) MCL 257.657(5): The driver of a vehicle traveling at an
unlawful speed shall forfeit a right of way which the driver
might otherwise have had.
(4) MCL 257.662: (1) A bicycle shall be equipped with a lamp
on the front which emits a white light and a red reflector on
the rear; (3) a bicycle shall be equipped with a brake.
(5) MCL 691.1402: each governmental agency having jurisdic
tion over a highway shall maintain the highway in a re
sonable repair so that it is reasonably safe and convenient
for public travel.
We look forward to your ruling based on the facts and law
presented. As always, ride safely!
Sarah W. Colegrove and Todd E. Briggs are lawyers in private practice.
In addition to helping athletes injured in bicycle and sports-related
accidents, they concentrate in the areas of civil litigation, including
personal injury, real estate, probate and corporate law. Todd and
Sarah are competitive cyclists, triathletes and adventure racers. Each
has competed in many state and national running, biking and triath-
lon competitions, including the Hawaii Ironman where Todd has gone
sub-10 hours. You can read past articles from Sarah and Todd on our
web site at: www.LMB.org/pages/Resources/Legal_Info.htm. You can
contact them at:
Briggs Colegrove, P.C.
660 Woodward Ave., Suite 1523 Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 964-2077
Fax: (313) 961-2345
briggscolegrove@aol.com
Injury Prevention During Riding; What to Do?
By SCOTT BENJAMIN, PT, DScPT, DR. ROY BECHTEL, PT, PhD & TROY TOWNSEND (EMT)
“The first person you
lead is you.”
— Leadership Guru John Maxwell
Leading yourself is the first thing you have to do every day. At the
beginning, the middle and at the end of the day, you must lead by mak-
ing good choices. You need to work the best you possibly can at your
occupation and whatever else you have chosen to accomplish; this takes
preparation and forethought.
In previous articles, we have discussed exercises to help you with
stability, strength and endurance. Keep working on them all winter to
keep your back and upper body strength so that when the spring season
kicks off, you are ready to go. This article focuses on precautions and
tips on what to do if you get injured during a ride.
Biking is a great sport and, as Lance Armstrong has said, “pain
is temporary, but quitting is forever.” You do not want an injury that
hampers your ability to function or your ability to live from day to day.
To ensure success in riding, you must have the correct gear, which
includes a helmet, eye protection, gloves, toe clips or clipless pedals,
proper clothing, tools, water and a cell phone.
The helmet is the most important piece of safely equipment. I will
not lie to you: growing up, and even in Europe, I never wore a helmet.
Being a hockey player, I thought my head was hard enough, but a helmet
is a must and I tell my wife that, even though it can mess up your hair,
you need to wear one! In one crash where a rider was hit by a trunk,
his bike and helmet were crushed, but he was fine.
How many of you take a cell phone when riding? I never did. Back
in 1982, when I was riding the mountains in Europe getting ready for
hockey, cellular communications didn’t exist. Today, a cell phone is
very important for calling for help from family, friends and, especially,
emergency medical services (EMS).
One question that arises is, when you get hurt, whom do you call?
The answer is the emergency-response number. In Michigan, and many
states, it is 9-1-1. If your cell phone isn’t programmed with it, program
it now! The phone system should automatically route your call to the
nearest EMS unit.
Don’t hesitate to call while you try to figure out whether you’re hurt
“badly enough.” You may be in shock and you certainly aren’t in any
condition to decide. Program yourself to dial 9-1-1 automatically. It
could save your life. The same is true when a fellow rider has been
injured. Don’t wait; call 9-1-1 at once. You’ll have time to call friends
and family afterward.
As you ride, you encounter many obstacles: cars, rocks, wind — and
bugs. If you get a bug or particle in your eye while riding alone, flush
your eye using your water bottle, starting from your nose and having the
water flow toward your ear. This will flush out the particle or bug.
Another helpful hint when riding is to carry a bag with various size
bandages or even a small first aid kit. If you fall or a friend gets some road
rash, gently remove the gravel from the cut(s), then cover it with one of
your bandages or gauze. Once home, wash it out with soap and water.
If you or a friend fall and are more seriously injured, it might be a
broken bone. The most common bones broken while riding a bike are the
collar and wrist bones, but falling and hurting your shoulder is a close
second. Look for these sure signs: redness, bones that are through the
skin, or bone ‘angulations.’ If you do fall, feel nauseated and you notice
a bone is twisted, you need immediate emergency care. Call 9-1-1!
If you are with a friend, he or she may be able to stabilize the limb
by making a splint from two tree branches and some twine, string,
adhesive tape from the first aid kit or even duct tape. However, make
sure the splint crosses the break in the affected joint or bone. For
example, if you break your wrist, the splint must go across your whole
wrist joint to support it. This will help the affected bone until the EMS
team arrives.
If you fall and there is only some blood coming from an affected
limb, apply pressure and elevate the affected limb above your heart.
This will help stop the blood from flowing. If your head is bleeding,
apply pressure and hold it on the cut. Try to remain calm; head wounds
bleed a lot and could take some time to stop. Once EMS arrives, they
can assess the area and determine what medical attention is needed.
Most of us have fallen while riding, especially when we are clipped in.
I remember once attempting to ride over some railroad tracks sideways
and, before I knew it, the bike fell — and so did I. I did not hurt myself,
but what if you hit your head when biking? First of all, call 9-1-1! If
you are riding alone, make sure that your vision is not blurred, that you
remember where you are and that you do not feel dizzy.
If you are with someone, also have him or her see if your pupils are
the same size, that one is not small (constricted) and one large (dilated).
A change in the pupils could indicate a head injury (concussion) that
needs immediate medical attention. If you feel any neck pain and if
you feel sick to your stomach (nauseated), you need immediate emer-
gency help.
Biking is fun and can be tough (depending on your ride), but to keep
it fun, make sure you take precautions. Remember the basic saying: if
you ride five miles out, you’ll need to ride that far back, so take your
time when starting out and take the necessary gear to help you succeed
in all areas of this great sport. Know your limitations, and also know
what to do when you need help.
If you have any questions, please contact me at DiscPT@gmail.
com. I would like to thank Troy Townsend, EMT, for his professional
advice on injuries that may occur during riding and his contribution
to this article.
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B
lame it on the postcard. It lay in
wait silently in my mailbox one
early October day, unremark-
able except for the stunning
color photo on the front and those beguil-
ing words on the back, “If you ever come to
Europe again, you should visit Tuscany.”
Ah, yes. Just looking at that magnificent vista in far-away Italy made
my heart yearn — a rolling, verdant landscape; a stone villa, perhaps
hundreds of years old, capped with a rippling, red tile roof; Cyprus
trees sprouting up haphazardly throughout the rural scene; a field of
bright yellow blooms off in the distance (could they be sunflowers?);
and, wait, were those ripening grapes growing in neat, meticulous rows
along the hillside? What setting could be more idyllic, more enticing
to someone whose bloodline runs rich with wanderlust?
But wait. The message on the back of the postcard continued, “I’ve
just finished a week on a bike.”
Whoa. Time out. A bike? How did a bike intrude into this perfect
Shangri-La of my mind’s eye? Let’s think about this.
Of course I had a bike as a kid — almost everyone I knew did. How
many hours, days, weeks did I spend riding my trusty green Colum-
bia around our middle-class neighborhood? In the summer months
especially, my bike was my constant companion, tearing up and down
friendly streets with the wind in my hair, riding over python-like roots
and around pylon-looking tree stumps in a nearby woods, sliding and
screeching to a halt in front of a friend’s house.
And once, as a teenager, I rode with two friends to neighboring
Mason, MI, some nine or ten miles distant from my hometown, to
spend an hour on horseback, no less, at a riding stable, only to ride
that same distance back home on a summer’s day grown hot with the
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HOW A POSTCARD
REKINDLED MY
INTEREST IN CYCLING
BY DEBBIE WILLIAMS
PAR AVION
mid-afternoon sun, noting the ride earlier in the day had definitely
been a lot more fun.
Then, as a newlywed college student (and the owner of yet another
bike, the make of which I no longer remember), I once — and only
once — rode from our inner-city apartment in Lansing to Michigan
State University’s campus through heavy, unyielding morning rush-
hour traffic, thankful for whatever sidewalks were available to avoid
the onslaught of cars.
Later, when I was the mother of three young children, our family
packed up our bikes and hauled them along on numerous camping trips
throughout Michigan, riding the smooth roadways in the state parks,
the more uneven ones in private campgrounds, exploring the bike paths
through wooded areas, and sometimes even venturing out onto lightly
traveled, yet more secluded, public roadways.
Finally, and more recently, on a trip to Mackinac Island, my hus-
band and I rode rented one-speed bikes all around the perimeter of
the island — exactly 8.1 miles — on a wonderfully traffic-free ribbon
of pavement, happily aware we would encounter only non-motorized
forms of transportation: horses and carriages, walkers, joggers, and
other cyclists.
But Tuscany? On a bike? I gazed longingly once again at the
postcard dated October 11, l999, and then reluctantly put it in a place
where I could take it out occasionally and dream.
Fast forward eight years to 2007. It is again October (oh, how I
love that month!), and I am a 56-year-old grandmother, closing fast
on 57. While I have always been active — regularly walking a couple
of miles a day, swimming during the warmer Michigan months, and
cross-country skiing during the snowy ones — I have never considered
myself athletic. Yet for some reason I was inexplicably compelled to
do something different this autumn in my on-going quest for a healthy
lifestyle. And so I bought a bike.
I managed to get my new purchase home from the bike shop in
parts. (Ye gads! I had to take the front tire off to get it in my car as I fun, lots of fun. And yet — there was that postcard.
hadn’t splurged on a carrier; then, of course, I had to try to remember One year after I bought my new bike, in the magical month of Octo-
how the shop owner had shown me to put it back on.) ber, I realized my secret and unspoken dream and traveled to Italy to
When I finally proudly displayed my shiny new bike, my husband cycle from Florence to Rome. Along with two guides and four other
asked sardonically, “What’s that?” Not to be discouraged, I simply cyclists, I joined up with my youngest son’s ‘German mom,’ the mother
stated the obvious. His next comment — “Shouldn’t it have wider of his student exchange brother, whom we had visited in Germany some
tires?” — left me undaunted. No, I assured him; I wanted a hybrid, eight years earlier. It was she who had sent me the postcard — that
something for roads that could also handle rougher or softer surfaces postcard. So, exactly one month before my 58th birthday, I embarked
if necessary. With a somewhat jaundiced look, he fired his parting on an eight-day, 650-kilometer trip with new-found friends and com-
salvo: “Humph!” panions from around the globe.
Thus I began enjoying my new 21-speed, and enjoy it I did! Every Without a doubt, the tour exceeded my expectations in every respect
day, and I do mean every day, that it didn’t rain, I’d hop on my bike and in some ways I had not even imagined. I learned much during
and head out to places that I had only traveled before by car or on foot. that short period, not just about Italy and my traveling companions,
And I was amazed at the discoveries I made. Had those tiny, brilliantly but also about myself. I can ride 95K in one day (even though my
colored wildflowers always grown in the side ditches along these roads? previous top mileage had been only 10 miles). I can do steep uphills,
Was my bike really so stealthy that I could, while pedaling around even if it is in 1ow-and-1ow, and it doesn’t matter if I am the last to
sharp bends, surprise deer browsing on tender roadside grass? Was crest the hill. I can get up day after day, perhaps a tad stiff and sore,
that freshly cut alfalfa I smelled wafting on the breeze? excitedly anticipating the new sights, sounds and, yes, even smells I
I made other discoveries as well. Some drivers, I found, were bet- might encounter during the day’s sojourn. This cycling trip and the
ter than others at sharing the road with previous year leading up to it had been a journey
cyclists. Not everyone, it seemed, obeyed of discoveries, a series of triumphs small and large,
the county dog ordinance and confined a liberating time of body and soul, a second wind
their pets to their own property. And dating back to a childhood pastime.
where on earth did those hills, yes, And, as for the Tuscan landscape? Well, let’s
hills! come from? Had they sprung up just say the postcard didn’t do it justice.
overnight on these roads I had so often
driven by car?
I loved my bike and the freedom it
gave me to cover more ter-
ritory than my daily
walks ever had. I
loved the invigo-
rating exercise that
cycling offered. I
savored the up-close-
and-personal encoun-
ters with wildlife, and
I delighted in the many
mini-tableaus I wit-
nessed while pedaling
in the countryside and
through neighborhoods Top: Taking a well-deserved break in northern Umbria above vast Lake Trasimeno with the hills and

that one misses while mountains of southern Tuscany in the background. Right: One of the centuries-old hilltowns nestled

traveling by car. And I reveled in the health benefits I knew would

in the mountains between Spoleto and Terni in central Umbria (author on the far left).

Bottom: Maria from Australia, Marie from Germany and author enjoying wild figs found in abundance
follow. These were all bonuses I hadn’t foreseen. Plus I was having along the roadside.

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