Cycle touring and/or night rides: what are the (your) defining feels?

[Ruthie]

Trauma in early life meant completely disconnecting myself from my body. When I found cycling I started to own my body again, feeling strong, loving my body for what it could do and where it could take me. I truly inhabit my body now and it's cycling that's done much of the healing.

When I'm cycling alone is when I feel most whole and at peace.

[MikeFromLFE]

Yes, perhaps it's the texture rather than the shape.

Smells are mostly a rural thing, I think. Urban night smells are not so seasonal: beer, exhaust fumes, litter, greasy takeaway joints, and indeed joints in certain places. Still some seasonality of course.

Smells off Sunday lunch cooking coming out of houses - admittedly mostly in villages - seem to be more prevalent during the winter months.
Some towns have a distinctive smell as you approach them - I think it's Banbury that smells of cheesy biscuits, brewing in Burton and Northampton, etc etc.

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[tonyh]

Another excellent description, thankyou!

"There’s a stick in the road there"   

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There’s a balance between...

This is amazingly well put, thanks for the writing.