Real cycling?
Are you a real cyclist?
Real cycling is not about gear ratios. Or wearing lycra the colour of rainforest toads. Or pedalling to the country pub in the sun, then getting a taxi back because it's dark and raining.
No.
Real cycling is fixing your second puncture on a windy night.
It's buying a three-metre curtain pole, then realising you have to bike it home like a medieval jouster.
It's crunching your way to work through thick snow, arriving half an hour late icy-toed and white-fingered – to find everyone else has taken the day off because their cars wouldn't start.
Real cycling is frustrating, inconvenient, exhausting – and huge fun.
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