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When I got back on the bicycle after an absence of years, it made me feel young again.
It was a delusion of course, but what is life without a few delusions? The first thing I noticed was that my bike seemed to be quite different from the others on the cycle path; my fellow cyclists looked at me with a mixture of pity and disdain as they breezed past.
Oldies who try to go back to the bicycle still hear the sound of rubber on asphalt, but it is a different tune.
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A kind lad slowed down to talk to me and explained that his grandfather used to have a bike like mine. The end of the conversation was not encouraging: “He’s dead now, of course.”
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