Cycling and Poetry


Every member has a clear job to do, serving the leader, and there`s no room for poetry. 

Yves Blanc (Editor, Le Cycle Magazine, talking of the Tour de France)


Do not concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.  

Bruce Lee



Having just returned from the Serra Tramuntana in Mallorca where the roads are pocked with pelotons (with cyclists in full regalia, and heads emphatically down), I feel compelled to elucidate my own philosophy of cycling. It`s quite simple really. It`s Go slowly and pause often, and, as the old Czech proverb goes, allow time to `gaze at God`s windows`.

The bicycle is not just a vehicle for the body but also for mind.

Fluency is all about the pausing. Otherwise, you're just a bullet in the barrel of a gun.

On a bicycle there is room for poetry...

Vast draughts of it!




























Above Port Glasgow



























Millport Beach, Great Cumbrae



























The Kilpatrick Braes





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