Great imagery here Tom. Where I lived as a lad there weren't many hills to go up, but none the less there was a sense of freedom going out cycling at a young age even if I only had three gears not like now when I have twenty two!
Great poem
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Grand! Brings back memories of my mid-teen fights with
Bowden Hill above the Wiltshire village of Lacock, vowing
not to dismount from my Raleigh Lenton Sports until I'd
reached home a couple of turns beyond the church on its
crest. No pub there!! But the challenge was the thing
when you're fourteen and fit for anything.
The days come back with every remembered turn of the
toe-clipped platform pedals I had fitted to the Williams
chainset driving a Cyclo Benelux derailleur. Yorkie Brian Robinson was leading the UK Cinderella charge in Continental
cycle racing - and I still see his name in magazine articles six decades later! What a hero...then and now.
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patricia Hughes
Tue 20th Jun 2017 20:09
Cynthia Buell Thomas
Wed 21st Jun 2017 10:46
Delightful salute to sheer youth, and the bitter-sweet 'halters' of age.
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