By Ethan Hartley

You couldn’t make up a more fitting anecdote for the opening of this story if you tried.

It couldn’t have been 10 minutes after this author posted up with a camera trying to grab some photos of people enjoying the bike path near Watchemoket Cove — a particularly scenic stretch of the East Bay Bike Path, located in Riverside off Veterans Memorial Parkway — that I heard the far-off sound of sputtering engines coming from far down the path in the direction of Kettle Point.

That was notable, and odd, considering fully motorized vehicles are not allowed on the bike path.

Yet here they rode. Two young men, perched atop what appeared to be miniature dirt bikes. They were respectful enough, riding on the correct (right) side of the road, in a single-file line, and they weren’t

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