No matter how you look at it, Bisbee is strange and it is amazing anybody is able to live there at all.
You have a huge hole in the middle of the town that was once a working copper pit. It shut down in the 70s, and most of the town residents took off. (Ever hear of Jeffery's City, WY?)
I rode the back roads there several times in the summer of 1984 from Ft Huachuca. (On my 1983 Cannondale, blue with a sealed no rear cable housing rear derailleur.) There was a bike shop there run by a guy who's father was in the Navy. (I have his name on a business card somewhere.) I also spent many an evening drinking beer and writing letters in the Copper Queen Hotel.
In that summer I saw the criterium they [used to] run there every year in the town. Denver Spoke had some riders that were working hard off of the front. Steeps hills on the course really messed up the guys who were good on flat crit courses.
Go North to I-10 (Did you actually pay to see "The Incredible Desert Thing?), and you might see Benson, AZ. Sung about in the movie The Dark Star.
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Riding in that area was interesting with the heat, tarantualas, rattlesnakes and javelina. I guess now it is even more interesting with the Border Patrol. At least you can't carry much dope on your bike, but I hear they might shake down your Camelbak.
Steven Johnson Millersville, MD
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