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sedans with full bicycle racks on top.

Some of the motorcyclists and some of the cars stop briefly at the sprint line, confer with a race official standing there, then roar off again.

Finally, a gaggle of cyclists surge into view. The crowd along Main Street, numbering perhaps 100, erupts in applause, and some cheers.

There’s a burst of color in the street, the clash of neon-colored cycle jerseys. Filled, as is the modem custom, with even more colorful sponsors’ logos.

A few shouts from the sidelines, but in the street there’s nothing but the swish of bodies in motion, the whirring of racing cycles expensive

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