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Need for the Bike

A cycling classic: witty and insightful truths of bikes and riding.`I ride to rest and to tire myself out; I ride to do myself good and to do myself harm.`… one of the many cycling paradoxes explored in this unique and delightful book.`I`ve never got over this miracle.`Starting with the childhood joy of learning to ride a bike, Need for the Bike goes on to relate the agony of climbing, the angst of crashing, and all the other universal moments and feelings which all cyclists will recognise.`To get on a bike is to take possession of the landscape.`The sounds, smells, pains and joys of riding with friends or alone, finding things on the road; getting lost, `re-reading` familiar routes; Paul Fournel`s classic comes as close as any book has to an encapsulation of why we all need the bike …

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