Retro Roamer
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• Right then, I’ll get on my bike. Just like Sam MacPherson. Sam had pitted his mountain bike against Ben Alder. But the snow began to fall and the conditions were becoming treacherous. Nothing daunted, Sam unscrewed the pedals and tied them to his boots to act as crampons. Then he blithely hoisted the bike onto his back and strode down through the snow to what Brian Ball refuses to call ‘ground level’. Meanwhile, it’s not a mountain bike Scooby Paterson has. It’s a ‘mounting bike’. Because, whenever I see him on it, he’s mounting the pavement at Claggan shop or mounting the traffic island to take a shortcut through ‘spaghetti junction’ at the Belford.