As a rule, I don’t do cycling. Those coccyx-bothering saddles, the sartorial Sophie’s choice between tight shiny shorts or rolling up a trouser leg, the way your shoulders shake out of their sockets on rough terrain – none of it’s for me. I’m too wobbly on two wheels and there are too many lorries turning left. And then, worst of the lot, there are the hills.
Thankfully, it’s not just me who’s got it in for inclines. There are the people at the Electric Bicycle Network, who want to open up British countryside cycling to those – the less mobile, the more lazy – who don’t want their scenic ride interrupted by gravity...
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