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Ahead of the curve

The average sales exec might zip from boardroom to boardroom via train or plane, clad in a suit and carting their overnight gear around a fancy leather holdall. But there’s nothing average about Curve co-owner, sales director and ultra-distance rider Ryan ‘Rhino’ Flinn. To his mind, when he’s peddling his adventure and bikepacking bikes, the only real way to get from meeting to meeting is by, well, pedalling his adventure and bikepacking bikes.

‘I’ve mainly been living in my tent,’ Flinn tells as we catch up during his

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