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Stephen Shrubsall

'It was a big 'up yours' to modern society': how bikepacking can strip life back to the bones

Steve Shrubsall riding shots.

This is part of a series of Going Long with Cycling Weekly stories about long-distance, bike packing and adventure riding. Click here to listen to explore dozens of Going Long podcast episodes.

One Sunday morning at around 0400hrs, amid the first fuzzy fade of a new day, I found God. I was riding through the little village of Pegglesworth – a hamlet tucked in among the gentle rucks of rural Gloucestershire – when I happened upon a cottage, at the front of which lay an immaculately manicured lawn.

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