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That's my main hobby of choice. It's the family hobby.

Husband & I cycle for leisure and the son cycles competitively (time trials). We are all fairly passionate about our cycling. I've got four steeds, a road bike (racer), tourer, hybrid and a recumbent trike. Husband has a tourer, road bike, an ancient hack road bike and a err... *unique* road bike made by a local designer which I think is err.. well, I'd not have it! Son has hack MTB, hack road bike, seriously good road bike and seriously good time trial bike. He's getting a new time trial frameset for this season too, courtesy of the manufacturer, which is nice. This is his current time trial steed:

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I'm comfortable up to 200km in a day as I'm a Ninja Pootler of the lanes.
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I'm rubbish on a bike, I don't do wind, flies or hills & my knees are Kaput :cry:
My other 1/2 & uncle do a lot of cycling, they did the C2C cycle ride a few years back, I did the tents & drove a head & set up camp each day, it was beautiful, they did a slightly different route, they started on the beach in Cumbria near Millom, as my auntie lives there, they biked through the lakes then onto Wenslydale & over to Hornsea north of Hull, it was stunning scenery.
They cycled through Ireland in 2005, again I did the tents, 2006 we did the Gorges of Verdon in the south of france, now that's what I call scenery, we thought we'd died & gone to heaven.
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Used to cycle to work a long time ago. But haven't been on a bike since.
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cool bike! I only cycle for transport.
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Hi,
where we are in France, (Poitou-Charente), the countryside offers superb cycling and lovely scenery.
We are currently building a chambre-d'hote to open in about 2 years time and will be offering cycling holidays as part of the business.
Mike
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