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A. Homer Hilsen as Randonneuse

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    Building wheels with wooden rims
  • anniebikes
    2024 Autumn Dahon Ride - Try, Try Again
  • PA Randonneurs Message Board
    Welsh Tract Wander 200k & Holiday Soirée Report
  • chasing mailboxes d.c.
    Coffeeneuring Challenge Gratitude Day
  • The Daily Randonneur
    Coffeeneuring 2024 No. 8: Commonplace Coffee in Pittsburgh
  • The Blayleys
    Camprodon to Mas Pelegri
  • Jchernekoff's Blog
    Reviving the Dream of a Cross Country Ride
  • Kent's Bike Blog
    Drive Fast
  • Rambling Rider
    My First 10K
  • Keith Snyder
    Address to local creche committee
  • The Hudson Valley Randonneur
    A New Day is Dawning in 2019!
  • Pennine Pedalling
    Still Pedalling Pennines
  • SUZE, CYCLING
    Time shift
  • One Speed: Go!
    No Turning Back
  • Mellow yellow
    Specialized Roubaix - Is Smoother Faster?
  • Tales From The Sharrows
    All City Nature Boy Disc
  • numbmum
    Walking in the woods today, I lost my bearings
  • Secondhand Daylight
    Touch Sensitive
  • Mark's Rando Notes
    A Perfectly Logical Obsession
  • Rando Theo
    Paris Brest Paris 2015
  • ChesapeakeSailor
    The red light goes in the back.....
  • DummyDiva
    Spring
  • Spokesong
    Rajasthani Nights
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    2/26/1993
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