On Facebook, I ran this fascinating video:

about the Key System with this introduction:

The Key System was one of the busiest inter-city transportation systems in the world. A 13 minute long video, in the first couple of minutes you can learn a lot about trains on the SF Bay Bridge. Not long after it talks about how women first broke into transportation employment. A lot here. Excellent stuff!!

Here is the thread that resulted:

https://www.facebook.com/awakeagainmartin/posts/1524279607859746

In it, you can learn about how the systematic destruction of this important system affected a young Terry Shaw the former owner of the widely revered Shaw’s Lightweight Cycles in Santa Clara, CA. 

A class act, with encyclopedic knowledge of local transportation and local cycling,  Terry closed his bike shop after 35 years because of a heart condition. Here  his son explains why he and his also amazing wife, Connie, didn’t sell it on,

“The shop is really his personality. His knowledge. He’s the main wheel builder and the main fitter. We had the option to keep it in the family but I don’t think the shop could survive in this way without him. He is everything that makes the shop unique.”

Full story here http://www.santaclaraweekly.com/2011/Issue-13/shaws_cycles_closes_its_doors.html

Though he may not ride as hard or as feverishly, Terry, possibly the most passionate bike person I have ever met, will always remain in my eyes, a genuine cyclist of the highest art form. He even still does trackstands!