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Robert Hurst
Robert Hurst

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Home Denver, CO
Favorite Pasttimes Reading, researching history, hanging out with lovely girlfriend.
Favorite Music Not telling
Favorite Food hummus, tamales, various grilled meats
Recent Achievement Rode through Denver's worst winter in memory on a standard road bike; read both volumes of Cicero's Verrine Orations without losing my mind.
Favorite Outdoor Destinations Buffalo Creek, Durango, Crested Butte, and the hills above my home town of Colorado Springs.
Outdoor Favs trail riding on rigid forks; climbing hills on the road bike; dicing it up in traffic; sitting in the woods with friends, cracking jokes.
What's Next More deliveries, lots more miles on the bike, and possibly a new book on pirates.
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Robert Hurst is an old-school messenger and mountain biker living and working in Denver. After ticking off a few hundred thousand miles as a professional package delivery technician, Robert wrote The Art of Urban Cycling (second edition: The Art of Cycling), which offers a new way of thinking about cycling in traffic. He also wrote two other guidebooks for Falcon, Mountain Biking Colorado's San Juan Mountains: Durango and Telluride and Road Biking Colorado's Front Range. Robert is currently researching a book about the late Roman Republic's struggles with piracy as he waits for the trails to thaw.

agreed with this discussion

agreed with this discussion Foundations Experienced Rider Course.In Colorado Springs we have had some cycling crashes that have resulted in fatalities and serious injuries. under armour

Was your friend Robert Reid

Was your friend Robert Reid a bike messenger in Denver years ago? If so I might know him, I was his apartment manager when he lived on Sherman. ======================= economics degree | Music degree | social service school | online degree school | Online Clinical Psychology Degree

Get in Touch?

Hi Robert:

Am a Denver writer with a Denver cycling book coming out next spring. Is there a way to get in touch directly?

jkonline AT qwest DOT net

Teaching the Art

Robert,
I live in Colorado Springs. I am an uncomfortable LCI as I have embraced much of the style of riding that you explain so well in The Art of Urban Cycling.
I would like to meet you if possible to discuss the possibility of creating a curriculum for an advanced rider course similar to the Motorcycle Safety Foundations Experienced Rider Course.
In Colorado Springs we have had some cycling crashes that have resulted in fatalities and serious injuries. Crashes that I believe could have been avoided had the cyclists had a better system of risk analysis based on crash data which may already be available.
Thanks
Al

research on art of urban cycling

Hi Robert,

 Would like to have a lengthier conversation via email if possible about art of urban cycling. I have a couple of question i would like to ask you.

 You can reach me at the following:

isthisonthetest at hotmail dot com

 thanks,

ls

HI

HEY ITS ME ROB WATSUP

Robert Reid

Was your friend Robert Reid a bike messenger in Denver years ago? If so I might know him, I was his apartment manager when he lived on Sherman.

I'd love to get in touch with him, just to say hi!

Ressa

ressak@comcast.net

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