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The English countryside on two wheels is like the best kind of poem

25 November 2017

9:00 AM

25 November 2017

9:00 AM

No seat belts. No airbags. Just air, and coming at you as fast as you like. Motorcycling shouldn’t be allowed, really, but thank God it is. Hanging on to an engine braced between two wheels as you travel through the countryside is worth any dose of mindfulness. The NHS should prescribe it.

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