A Bicycle Built for Ruth

Ruth sounds like a remarkable woman. You never know, perhaps you'll run into her out on a training ride someday...

--ryan

"Ruth Thomas left Spokane, Wash., June 10, 1998, with the intention of visiting the smallest incorporated town in every state.

By bicycle.

Now 78, the retired schoolteacher has ridden 10,462 miles and visited the smallest towns in 35 states, including one so small it had zero population.

She has biked over the Rockies several times. She was run off the road and injured in Iowa and ran into a skunk party in North Dakota..."