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Knee replacement and getting back into the saddle
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<blockquote data-quote="Peter Holmes" data-source="post: 178518" data-attributes="member: 302"><p>You have a rather jaundiced opinion of cycling and cyclists, I find that difficult to understand, isn't owning your own cycle a child's first taste of freedom and speed, up until that point the fastest you have ever travelled anywhere using only energy generated by yourself was by running as fast as you could, and for every sinew you strained to climb the Chiltern Hills, there was the pay back as you raced downhill, round sweeping bends, with adrenaline coursing through your veins, maybe attaining 40mph! I would not have missed it for the world, Clamp Hill, Brooks Hill, Rickmansworth Hill, Harrow on the Hill, oh the memories.</p><p></p><p>You are far more likely to see lots of old men hobbling around in twenty years time as a result physical contact sport and running rather than cycling, unless you fall of your bike that is, the whole cycling experience I found to be good, that early introduction to how mechanical components function, wheel bearings, frame bearings, brakes, gears, tyres, inner tubes, punctures, general essential maintenance, all wonderful groundings to owning a motorcycle.I still cycle to this day, and I love it, but I don't wear tight Lycra you will be pleased to hear!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peter Holmes, post: 178518, member: 302"] You have a rather jaundiced opinion of cycling and cyclists, I find that difficult to understand, isn't owning your own cycle a child's first taste of freedom and speed, up until that point the fastest you have ever travelled anywhere using only energy generated by yourself was by running as fast as you could, and for every sinew you strained to climb the Chiltern Hills, there was the pay back as you raced downhill, round sweeping bends, with adrenaline coursing through your veins, maybe attaining 40mph! I would not have missed it for the world, Clamp Hill, Brooks Hill, Rickmansworth Hill, Harrow on the Hill, oh the memories. You are far more likely to see lots of old men hobbling around in twenty years time as a result physical contact sport and running rather than cycling, unless you fall of your bike that is, the whole cycling experience I found to be good, that early introduction to how mechanical components function, wheel bearings, frame bearings, brakes, gears, tyres, inner tubes, punctures, general essential maintenance, all wonderful groundings to owning a motorcycle.I still cycle to this day, and I love it, but I don't wear tight Lycra you will be pleased to hear! [/QUOTE]
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