Here`s Steeltown - Sheffield - I love cycling there on my big old Dutchie donkey.
I wasn`t really sporty at school because home was a bit crazy and school was mad but I was tall so I was a soccer goalkeeper at 13...ish and at 18 in college I was a second row rugby union player because I was too light to be on the first row - apparently - however I was quite strong and could lift 300lb guys up because my night job involved reeling paper rolls and batch cutting them.
My boss was stingy so we only had one forklift for two warehouses and we were understaffed and overworked as most people are so I had to handball paper onto reeling machines - I weighed 58KG and the rolls were 150+ KG and doing it all day you get used to throwing 300lb rolls around so big rugby players didn`t faze me in the slightest.
I used to run double marathons for charity when I used to smoke a lot of pot bongs - that helped clear my chest and keep me fit and I have always cycled since I was four in `69.
Erm my whole family like a drink and so do I so we used to all go hiking and picnics all drunk on Carlsberg Special Brew 9% vol lager and Russian vodka but eating lovely sandwiches and playing poker on little 2000 foot mountain tops in Derbyshire in English The Peak District enjoying the sun in the Country.
I had to give up driving because of a bad bone condition called avascular osteo-necrosis 25 years ago but I have always cycled which has kept me sane and a bit fitter.
I take this 55lb - 3 gear bike bike up hills 35 miles away - to Yorkshire and Derbyshire - it grounds me - it`s an old Dutch cargo bike called a Batavus Personal bike - I call it my Wonky Donkey because it carries a lot - gets me safely home from the pub because it knows it`s way home like a homing pigeon on autopilot.
I take my tenor sax to the pub so free drinks - that`s good for the lungs and heart !
It`s rated 300KG but I`ve had 440KG on it cos it`s a working bicycle - I love it.
Does anybody else like cycling for leisure and transport at the same time with no special clothing needed ?
