Friends Corinna Lee Manion and Dustin Eagan competed against each other as well as 70 other contestants in a video competition sponsored by the national bicycle company, Salsa Cycles. They are currently two of the eight finalists in the competition to win a Mukluk Ti bicycle and an all-expenses-paid “Alaskan Beach Ride Adventure.” The grand-prize winner is determined by how many votes each video receives before September 23.
In their videos, both Manion and Egan describe their love of bicycling as well as showcase beautiful views of rural southern Indiana.
Be sure to vote for your favorite video and help one of these two local bicyclists win a trip to Alaska!
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Manion works as an outreach specialist for the Monroe County Public Library and in the Bookmobile. She started cycling as a teenager while attending Harmony School.
Eagan’s first love was skateboarding, but now he is an avid bicyclist. Eagan works as a mechanic at Bikesmiths.
I’m Dustin’s dad & am proud of his video as well as Corrina’s. I think they’ve cycled the North Star Road here in New Mexico, where I live. I’ve written 28 articles on “Hiking Apacheria,” for the Desert Exposure, here in Silver City, NM.
http://www.desertexposure/apacheria
This sounds like a neat niche area for bicyle riders. I’m glad that bicycling has expanded into so many niches since I rode my bikes in Bloomington when & where I attended IU.
Living and biking in IU was one of the most pleasant periods of my life.
It’s good to know that Dustin & Corrina continue to live in Bloomington and that they’ve continued to find ways to explore that area of Indiana. I, too, ran & then began biking when I got out of the Army in 1968. A disabled combat vet from the Vietnam War, bicycling in Bloomington, & on the back roads around there, were very healing for me as a combat vet who didn’t know then he had PTSD so bad.
I didn’t know then just how much “quite time” I needed to recover from Vietnam & a year in Army hospitals seeing horrible stuff that my peers experienced from being severely wounded, permanently disabled by single, double & triple amputations.
I lived in Briscoe Quad, where there were several floors of “just Vietnam vets” or men over 21. We were a wild crew, and I associate living there & GRC during the summer with my bike & getting on it so many times to go to classes, but also, to get out of town & go for long afternoon rides. Those were badly needed healing rides, again, for someone who was pretty crushed by the Vietnam War.
I suspect that there are other traumas that people experience where long, solitary rides, or rides with quiet people, could serve to heal inner wounds.
I loved the smells of nature around me in Indiana & later, @ the University of Oregon, Eugene, & I suspect Dustin & Corrina love those smells & nature, too.
These are fun videos & I hope that they continue to find new places to explore on their bikes. Maybe some day they can take their bikes to Europe, Australia, Asia, to get a wholly different perspective on biking outside the U.S.
America’s a great place to explore in so many ways. I hope others will find these video helpful to opening up a new adventure for themselves.