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Owner:
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Released:
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Origin:
Michigan, United States
Recently Spotted:
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Current Goal

This coin is being released to help raise awareness of bicycles on the road, practice safe riding skills!

This coin is in memory of Todie Phillips of Manitou Beach, MI. He passed away August 12 2008 as a result of a motorcycle accident, he was only 49 years old.

About This Item

Don't ride against traffic. Ride with traffic, in the same direction.

Riding against traffic may seem like a good idea because you can see the cars that are passing you, but it's not. Here's why:

Cars which pull out of driveways, parking lots, and cross streets (ahead of you and to the left), which are making a right onto your street, aren't expecting traffic to be coming at them from the wrong way. They won't see you, and they'll plow right into you.

How the heck are you going to make a right turn?

Cars will approach you at a much higher relative speed. If you're going 15mph, then a car passing you from behind doing 35 approaches you at a speed of only 20 (35-15). But if you're on the wrong side of the road, then the car approaches you at 50 (35+15), which is 250% faster! Since they're approaching you faster, both you and the driver have lots less time to react. And if a collision does occur, it's going to be ten times worse.

Riding the wrong way is illegal and you can get ticketed for it.

One study showed that riding the wrong way was three times as dangerous as riding the right way, and for kids, the risk is seven times greater.

Every year about 800 people die in the U.S. from bicycle crashes, help keep yourself safe!

Tracking History (329.2mi) View Map

Mark Missing 2/29/2012 usyoopers marked it as missing   Visit Log

The owner has set this Trackable as missing.

Retrieve It from a Cache 11/7/2010 nodoz42 retrieved it from Caw of the Wild Michigan   Visit Log

Grabbed it up in Tawas ... i will be placing it in my 100th Cache find later this week ...

Dropped Off 11/1/2010 cyclep&p placed it in Caw of the Wild Michigan - 107.04 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 10/28/2010 cyclep&p grabbed it   Visit Log

Found it in DNF's Stink and will be passing it along to another cache when we are out next.

Discovered It 10/28/2010 Tom n Chris discovered it   Visit Log

Cyclep&p shared this one with us.

Write note 3/30/2010 usyoopers posted a note for it   Visit Log

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Dropped Off 9/19/2009 IGGY.G.SLY placed it in Argentine Cemetery Michigan - 6.4 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/14/2009 IGGY.G.SLY retrieved it from Old Prospect Hill Michigan   Visit Log

got this one when i was out getting some other t/b and coins going again will get this one going again shortly

Dropped Off 9/13/2009 jtee placed it in Old Prospect Hill Michigan - 184.7 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/4/2009 jtee retrieved it from Cache Sleeps With the Birches Michigan   Visit Log

picked up tb and taking to canada eh

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