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I used to work with a guy who at least three times a day would take pause, clear his throat and then speak the words, ‘Let me tell you…’

It was typically the precursor to some often damning, mostly correctional statement related to something I didn’t know but should have known about bikes. In hindsight I would say he was informative about 50% of the time, with the remaining 50% comprising limited experience presented as fact. However, about one thing he was consistently right: bikes are

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