Ah Patrick, you've stirred memories.  A couple of months back, I was doing 
my usual morning jaunt up and down the coast when I hit the fast part.  
This is  a stretch of main road I use to join two quiet bits.  'Tanyrate I 
work up a bit of speed say 25mph - flat chat on my Specialized Shark beach 
cruiser; 40lbs, 50mm tyres with an off road style tread - and I come to the 
traffic lights where there is a bunch of serious lycra just getting 
underway.  I cannot resist, I sweep around them, baggy shorts flapping, 
tyres buzzing and yell out "C'mon fellas pick up the pace!"  In five 
seconds they're gone past in a wave of grim intent.  Not even a call, but 
then I was laughing so much I wouldn't have heard.  
Something about riding brings out the child in me, I'm sixty six, can't run 
as I have herniated disks, can't walk long distances as a kneecap floats 
about but I can ride for hours.  I can climb hills, although not on the 
Shark, dawdle along the cycle path through the kids and the dogs, sprint 
down a quiet road, and linger on that stretch of the cycle path that 
follows the ridge of the sand dunes overlooking the beach. 

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