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PAUL MILES

“I then asked him what’s the most miles he’d ridden in a day – 1600 was the reply.”

AS RIDERS, I THINK IT’S FAIR TO SAY WE ARE perceived by the great washed as being a trifle odd. Why dress up in all that smelly bike gear they ask, getting cold and wet (or very occasionally hot and bothered), when you could be in a nice car with heated seats or air conditioning?

Why, in a car you can even chat to your significant other for hours on end about

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