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I have wondered this. I should preface this with the fact that I'm pretty ignorant of horse things and that I do, of course, slow down and pass horses very carefully on my bike and in my car.
I have often found myself wondering where the pleasure lies in sitting on a horse walking at 5mph down the road.
Do they just use roads to get between fields where they can run about and jump over stuff? Or is the plodding along a road bit as good as it gets?
Change 'horse' for 'cyclist' in your post.
Unless it was just very good satire that's gone over my head.