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THE TIME LORD

I am delighted to have the opportunity to be able to discuss with fellow cyclists how my age impacts on my cycling. How old am I? Sufficiently old to have children who are going grey. I’ll be celebrating my 85th birthday this November and have been cycling for around three decades, so you can work out that I was a late starter.

Thirty years ago, I was sitting down to dinner with

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