1. First ride out after replacing heavily-worn tires. 
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The simple pleasures of mountain biking...
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2. First ride after new suspension bearings.
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3. first ride in short sleeves in the spring
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1st ride on a FS after riding HT for a few months.
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4. hired a tandem with my girlfriend. Fun fun fun!
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5. 1st climb on a h/tail after riding a full susser for a while.
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6. Plucking up the courage to ride down/off/up something scary.
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finally getting a bike with the correct size wheels for you
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Stopping to look at the view.
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9. just loving the solitude of the countryside
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10. Doing your favourite descent in the dry after its dried out after loads of rain/ cr@ppy weather.
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seeing shy wildlife in situ
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Going singlespeed and wondering why you ever thought you needed more gears.
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La Marmotte, oh you meant off-roading?
Singlespeeds. Pure and simple.
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Being alone on a remote hilltop with nobody else around for miles. Wonderful!
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deciding to go for a night ride at 23:30 when you get back from the pub having drunk five pints of cider
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Bluebells
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n. first descent on a full suss after riding hardtail for ages.
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bunny hopping your 1st doggers :lol
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putting your summer tyres back on and putting the knee warmers away for a few months
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Not quite feeling up to it then an hour later up on the tops with the wind in your hair (sic, not mine) all is well.
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Watching your breath condensing on a clear but chilly late spring/early summer morning, and knowing that later on it might get quite warm.
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that first, slightly nippy frosty morning ride of autumn. love it
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sitting outside a pub with a beer at the end of a long hot ride
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Realising that you're completely unhurt after what could have been a 'big one'.
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First ride out on the tandem in over a month after a dissagreement with the stoker.
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The feeling of excitement just as you set off on a big ride
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1st ride out on the full sus after using the hardtail for a while
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The first sweeping singletrack section after a few weeks off the bike
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The smell of pinewoods after rain.
Sitting around in your dirty kit for hours afterwards, drinking beer/tea, listening to choice music and reading old copies of [*insert favourite magazine here].
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getting to the top
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almost having a massive stack, but somehow, superhuman instinct takes over and you wrest it back under control. then have to stop and wonder how.
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It keeps me sane in a mad world.
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Flying wide-eyed into a dusty corner, much too fast, and feeling the tyres (and your stomach) let go. But somehow they grip again and you fly straight out with expletives and a MASSIVE giggling grin.
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realising it's infinitely more fun riding a bike than reading about riding a bike
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