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THE CYCLE NEVER ENDS BY BARRY KAUFMAN | PHOTOS BY ROB KAUFMAN
There’s a rite of passage each of us encounters in our lives, and for some reason we usually encounter this seminal moment at the age of 13. It’s when we discover the one thing we love; the one passion that will dictate every moment from then on out. For Ken Fagut, that rite of passage came the first time he mounted his bicycle, started pedaling, and didn’t stop until he’d put 100 miles of road beneath his wheels. “I was hooked, man,” he said. “I’d be gone all day. My
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parents would have freaked if they knew how far I’d gone. I just loved cycling.” From that first 100-mile ride, cycling became the nexus of Fagut’s entire reality. In his native New York, he opened Open Road Sports, a retail operation that let him share his passion for cycling with others even as he acted as an advocate for the sport. As treasurer for the New York Bicycling Commission, he worked alongside law enforcement to create safer bike laws,
