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James Shrubsall

There were 805 cyclist deaths in 1950 – let's stop grasping for a mythical 'Golden Age of Cycling'

Cyclists on a group ride as the sun is setting.

If your online algorithms are anything like mine, you will have been told many times to live more in the present. I'm not sure exactly what that says about me, but I don't imagine I'm alone. Media of all kinds is alive with mindfulness and similar strategies exhorting us to live more in the moment, rather than waiting for a situation to change, or wishing it was like it once was.

Cycling as a whole could do with a bit of this right now.

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