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F is for freedom: With no other means of transport, except possibly skiing, can you determine so exactly the path you intend to follow and arrive there so quickly.
The beauty of cycling is that you can decide, from a distance of 10 yards, that your front tyre is going to trace a course 6in to the right of that manhole cover and a foot to the left of that broken beer bottle. And you do it! It’s about autonomy, man.
G is for gears: At the risk of heresy, I have never seen the point of the very high gears. Why sit and pump like a maniac when it is so much easier to stand up and grunt?
Once, my bike was nicked, but because my children had been fiddling with the gears I was easily able to overtake the thief on foot.
H is for handlebars:The key thing about handlebars is not to shoot over them. Bear in mind that no matter how spongy your grip is, a lot of cycling will produce a horniness in your hands.
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