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Originally Posted by UncleKudzu  are you the guy who was featured in the Birmingham News a few months back? |
Yes, I met the reporter at a bluegrass festival, that was the first article she ever had go national/international, it was run via AP in Australia I heard. Denis at GEBE read it in his local Ann Arbor paper.
The article seems to have disappeared from the archives, only thing I can find is some outfit called HighBeam reprinting part of it from a Syracuse paper:
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SMILES FOR MILES; AT 250 MILES PER GALLON, YOU WOULD BE SMILING, TOO.(CNY)
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The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
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June 15, 2007
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"paul crabtree" bicycle "smiles for miles" | Copyright information COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of The Herald Co. by the Gale Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
Byline: Kim Bryan Newhouse News Service
Holly Pond, Ala. -- The high price of gasoline isn't keeping Paul Crabtree off the road.
He logs 220 miles on a good day and pays more for lunch than fuel.
That's because Crabtree's vehicle of choice gets 250 miles per gallon. It's a bicycle, but not an ordinary one.
Crabtree customizes bicycles by mounting two-cycle Golden Eagle engines atop the rear wheels. The 11-pound motor boosts his bike's speed from a typical 10 mph to 35 mph.
"This is all you need," Crabtree said of his $250 Sun seven-speed. "I started with a $100 Wal-Mart bike in August of 2005. It took 24 hours to install the engine. Now it takes me two."
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