Doug,
It's all true the comments here, what a cool bunch of answers! It's easy to forget what an amazing adventure you are having. After a while it all feels like normal life - cocking your leg over the bike and thinking...what the hell is going to happen today...what bit of the bike will screw up today....will I run out of petrol....ohhh look at the buns on those nuns...ahem, sorry, you get the picture.
I think it took me about 3 months for a lifetimes worth of stress and conditioning to start to leave me and to be riding one day under the sun and actually feel...not just think, that I was free and could do whatever I wanted to do.
Christ I'm jelous mate, I honestly cant wait to get back out there and worry about the state of my tyres instead of the state of my cat poo infested garden (the little sods love the gravel in my back garden).
Right, I'm off to bed soon then up for the Alexander Palace bikey show, then its Sunday, then its life in the bus lane again.
Speak soon
Brian
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