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I did a 60km loop, the first half was standard for North Devon; agonising standing climbs or the indignity of pushing followed by terrifying descents, riding the brakes all the way down, tractors, cars, potholes around every blind corner and no verge to jump into. Was good fun. It's given me more confidence in the gearing choice I made on this bike.
Second half was the Tarka trail, loads of retired ebike rental cyclo tourists, cargo shorts dads on specialized allezs, kids in trailers, those random grumpy looking shirtless gammon who fly around cycle paths on deregulated e-mtbs, fully lycrad up German ladies riding front sus trekking bikes faster than I could keep up with, a couple on a Kona tandem. All the cycling world. So nice to see how pretty much anyone will ride a bike if you simply remove cars from the equation.
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