And, with the deepest of breaths, we have tried to squeeze back into the cycling top we last donned a lifetime ago.
During our hands-on, we started off with a bit of a wobble while adjusting to the backward handles, but five minutes later we learned to ignore the conventional cycling posture and leaned slightly further back, plus we got the right grip for the throttle (right) and brake (left).
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Instead of drawing up laws like this we should be encouraging cycling and making it easier.
So, for example, the BMX cycling camp, we'll go in and use a combination of sensors, one, and accelerometer, which measure acceleration, to look at the explosiveness that the athlete can generate through the bike at the start.
Most are now committed to "cycling commissioners" and we have already seen a policy shift before the election.
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Donald Patterson, chairman of Tregaron Angling Association, said: "There are schemes set up for cycling and walking so we wanted to highlight the importance of angling to the economy of Ceredigion, " he said.
We'll get uncharacteristically pumped about cycling, meet some extra-terrestrial quasicrystals and enjoy some art with X-men credentials.
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But only when we know more about the role of the governing body, the International Cycling Union, in the deception that now characterises the Armstrong years, can we have complete faith in the sport.
"We want to see more people walking and cycling, " he added.
"We are encouraging staff to consider walking or cycling to work, to take public transport or, at the very least, to share a car with a co-worker over the next three years, " he said.
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Tomorrow we will see the mayor outline his vision for cycling over the next 10 years.
Garmin's got a lot of products showing up on its website we've never heard of, including two cycling computers in its Edge range -- the 510 and 810.
Perhaps it was the heliskiing in the Himalayas or the cycling in Ireland that helped Wal King, whom we glowingly profiled in 2007, keep Leighton Holdings on track.
On Thursday we were given some details of how the future could look for cycling in London.
We may care passionately about the integrity of the Olympics or professional cycling or so on, but they only directly affect a very small number of us.
We know that sustainability is about much more than recycling - or even cycling.
Westminster Council turned down a cycling superhighway in 2008 due to the very same blue paint we see in the CGI.
We have everything, bootcamps, mixed martial arts, boxing, Zumba, cycling, pilates, yoga.
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"When we put e-bikes in hilly areas of London I don't think we're going to have any shortage of riders... if anything, we're going to have a shortage of bikes, " says the mayor's cycling commissioner, Andrew Gilligan.
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