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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Ryan Conley, cycling and organizing the Helderberg Cliffhanger
Description: Growing up in New Salem, Ryan Conley and his friends built their own bikes with parts from the junkyard. “As a kid, I remember building jumps on the side of the road …. We used to build little mountain-bike trails,” he said.Now grown, Conley just hosted the first Helderberg Cliffhanger, a mountain-bike race that drew over 350 participants to Thacher Park on Father’s Day.Conley came up with the name for the competition, a nod to the escarpment’s limestone cliffs as well as a reference to the suspense of racing. He also designed t...