I woke up early again this morning, the sun was out so I had good visibility and it's been warm enough for the last few days to clear up the last few patches of ice that might have been hiding in those shady places and so I left home 40 minutes early and took the fun country lanes into work this morning.
Gliding along the road in the clear air, picking that perfect line around that complex series of bends and accelerating out as the road straightens up - there really is no better feeling. I want to say it's like flying but I'm not sure that's true, maybe it's more like riding a powerboat down a river, there is a sense of speed which I don't think you get when flying because you have tree's and lampposts and road markings zipping past.
Certainly, I've never felt as at-one with a car which seems to do everything it can to isolate you from the environment you're riding through.
Will I ever get another car, or get my car repaired?
Probably, the only thing I miss about the car was the ability to carry my bike to interesting locations so I could go cycling in places I haven't cycled before (a real problem since I have cycled on every road within 50 miles of my house).
I would also like to join that Canoe club in St Neots I looked into once before but couldn't join then because they couldn't store my equipment there and my house is too small but I now have a shed which would take a small canoe but now I have no car so I can't get there with my equipment - grrr.
But even if I did get the car repaired, I couldn't see myself using it on a very regular basis, a motorbike is always likely to be my first choice of transport from now on because I like arriving to work with a grin on my face.
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