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PROVINCETOWN — “Most of the townies I know don’t have cars, they just have a bicycle,” says Ptown Bikes mechanic Silas Barrepski in between oiling a chain and pumping a tire. Out here, he says, “biking is essential.”
But how safe is biking on the Outer Cape?