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The Adventure Life with Steve Casimiro The Five Biggest Lies Cyclists Tell Each Other

ByMary Anne Potts
Published May 8, 2008

Starting with: "I’m happy to share my best trails…."

Text and photos by West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro

Oh, how my brothers and sisters of the saddle bend reality in the name of glory, desire, and vanity. Is there a sport more filled with half-truths, untruths, and never were truths? Besides climbing, skiing, paddling, and surfing, that is?

Beneath every elaborate dissembling, of course, there’s that nugget of honesty that tells us much about ourselves. It’s like the pearl buried in the oyster. The thing about this little analogy, though, is that some people like oysters more than pearls….

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