Ryan Clark This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. www.ohiovalleyvelo.com

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   Published on: 9/12/2006   Last Visited: 4/16/2007

   Ryan Clark of Quality Bike Shop was stopped by law enforcement Wednesday evening after leaving the OVV-EDT "Meet and Greet", which was hosted at Los Toribio restaurant downtown Owensboro on Wednesday.
   
   At the scene, Ryan was searched, and was found to have in his possession a suspicious "Barely Legal" bicycle frame be to ridden by the Ohio Valley Velo-Elite Development Cycling team. The frame was a Cannondale CAAD8 Optimo frame. According to Law enforcement, they had been tipped off that Ryan was carrying the race weapon, by an outside source thought to be "another regional racing" team. Ryan was questioned for a few hours on how he acquired the racing bicycle frame. Ryan told the authorities that the bike shop in which he is part owner of, Quality Bike Shop, had teamed up with the bicycle manufacture Cannondale to help support OVV-EDT in 2006. "We just wanted to be involved," said Clark.
   
   Ryan was later released with the Cannondale frame in hands, he escaped

2. 2. Riding High

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   Published on: 5/22/2005   Last Visited: 5/22/2005

   Ryan Clark reached over and picked up the bicycle -- with just his index finger.
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   Ryan Clark, 22, bike technician and manager of Quality Bike Shop, balances a tour bike on his finger May 9 in the showroom. The Cannondale Six13 Team costs $5,800 off the shelf. "It weighs only 14 pounds," Clark said.
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   "We sold five of them this winter," said Clark, manager and service technician at Quality Bike Shop in Owensboro.
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   The store sold out in a month, Clark said.
   
   Computers, or cyclometers, can tell bikers everything they ever wanted to know about heart rate, altitude, the rise of a hill, number of ascents and descents on a ride, speed, distance, daily ride time, temperature and much more. The suggested retail price is $310.
   
   Polar Bottle is an insulated sport bottle that will maintain water at a cooler temperature for a longer period of time. "It works well," Ryan Clark said.
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   Ryan Clark notes it weighs only 99 grams. A pair costs about $400, he said.
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   "New stuff comes out all the time," Clark said.
   
   He buys a new bike every year. Right now, he's riding a Cannondale R700.
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   "It's a lot cheaper than golf," Clark said, "and it's more exercise."

3. 3. State park trails are largely unknown

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   Published on: 11/5/2005   Last Visited: 11/5/2005

   Clark, who manages Quality Bike Shop, and Osborne, who owns Sunlite Music and Studio, enjoy riding the four miles of well-marked and maintained walking and biking trails that have been open since September 2003.
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   As a result, "there are a lot of people who aren't aware of (the trails)," said Ryan Clark with Quality Bike on Sweeney Street, who rode with Osborne on Thursday.
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   Most of the 150 to 200 miles Clark rides each week are on roads "because of a lack of a real nice trail around here," he said.