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Buy a ST, and your Daytona will sit and never get ridden, then you will have no problems parting with it .

Ohio's Windy 9 is the name of a map developed by the Athens Visitor's Bureau that shows 9 excellent rides that loop from Athens. The map was produced with the help of Road Runner Magazine, so it is well designed and even printed on water resistant paper to make it last through those rainy days.The routes themselves take in some of the best roads and sites in this part of the state, and most loops are in the 90 - 100 mile range. Some of the roads are likely to be famiiar - Routes 78, 56 and 555, etc., but there are also well paved county roads, so you should find something new here even if you have ridden in the region. Link to this site and you can download a PDF of the map or GPX files for your Nav system, or you can ask to have a map mailed to you. The map can help you plan a full riding day or even a weekend of several rides. Oh, and did I mention that Athens now has 3 micro breweries? http://windy9.com My only interest is that I developed, tested and suggested the routes.

Or only drink HALF the bottle next time...

I couldn't bring myself to care much about the Pope's visit. Yea, I guess the cheerleading is nice and if people feel like stretching outside of themselves to consider others in sustainable ways, then that's actually pretty cool but you can just as easily use Catholicism or Christianity overall to justify division, condescension, manipulation and illegitimate government, and I've seen beautiful secular moments just as important to those who participated. The Catholic church is, like all churches to degrees, rife with contradictions, self-serving power games, convenient untruths and a history that leaves them no moral credibility to me and my sense of what's right and what's not. The Pope can become a false idol just as rapidly as anyone, and the church complicit in wielding power as an explicit or implicit state religion in ways that trample on the freedoms and equality of mankind. What's worse is then spewing hypocrisy to appear the ally of the underdog. Is the Catholic church changing under this Pope? It looks like it and I hope so, but they have centuries of rot to clear out and I don't have that long to find tipping points that are more personal and impactful wherever I can find them. I'd rather give my time and money and faith and hope and openness and leadership humanity to those without all that baggage, and without the need to desperately hope that this decade/century/millennium will be different. I guess to that end, I can appreciate the Pope's apparent humanity and love without having to eat any of the rest of the Church's cake. It's the same thing I prefer to do with every other notable peacenik.