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bike: Humuhumu
Distance: 31 miles

Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we ride our bikes to work. The morning ride was crisp, dark, chilly and quiet. The ride home in the evening Autumn sunshine was like an American feel good film. Pretty girls walking their dogs, children laughing on the swings, fat blokes fishing miserably, it was great! SPinning away through the park and then along the sankey valley trail, what a wonderful evening. And then, when I got on the road, I came across a HUGE queue of cars running virtually all the way from the East Lancs to Leigh. Well, that’s a sight a cyclist likes to see, makes it all worthwhile, zip zip zip. Fly past allthose cars, make them feel bad about being stuck in their tin box (although of course, there but for the grace of god go I, or some such shit). The whole feel good factor was topped off when I got to the roundabout and had to stop zipping in and out of the cars, I rolled up alongside a Lupo, glanced in and there was sat a beautiful young lady in a pretty cotton dress. She saw me looking at her, smiled and waved happily. Smashing!