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“ Hey Dar , do you mind if I have a few friends over to ride some weekend ?” I ’ d like to think that was how this whole Coyote Run deal got started over a decade ago . Just a simple question , avoiding too much detail … you know , like “ we ’ ll still be doing this ten plus years from now ,” “ in a few years we will have to clear more room for parking ,” or “ by 2022 , there will be nearly two hundred bikes on the starting lines .”
Had Dave Kutskel provided those additional details during that conversation with his wife Darlene , she may not have agreed as willingly to the idea . But in reality , it was a smart idea considering that Dave
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