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A DECADE OF RIDING

t’s the winters where I notice the difference. My local lanes frequently take me to the Surrey Hills, a region made “famous” by the 2012 London Olympics, and that’s where you can really see it. Just outside of London, it’s a place that cyclists from the south side of the capital flock to. But the winters used to be quiet, with just a select group of hard riders braving the elements, having donned their layers like medieval knights going into battle. Rarely was

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