"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."
Ernest Hemingway
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Bernard Hinault leading Pollentier, Zoetemelk and Martinez up the Tourmalet in Hinault’s first Tour de France in 1978. Picture comes from L’Equipe, thanks to Cycling Art Blog for the photo.