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| | The Way of the Bicycle (book) |
 | | Anything else was broadly defined as "flat."As in, "don't worry about it, Art, after this one steep section, the rest of the ride is flat," used to describe a cliff, below which is a trail which climbs and then drops three thousand feet, the trail lacking any sections of greater than 25% grade. |
 | | Anyway, I mention this because if you find yourself on a "steep" section, your only hope of slowing down is to lay the bike all the way down, planting the pedal deeply into the ground like an ice axe... |
 | | A vast, verdant valley opened beneath me, walled with vertical outcroppings of volcanic rock, waterfalls spilling between them. |
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