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Learning to Ride A Bike

The Common c1955 Ref: C524010
The Common c1955
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We found an old bike that had no chain and no brakes. Every day after school we would get the bike out of the gorse, where we had hidden it, and take it in turns to free wheel down this slope. Then push it back up and someone else would have a go. I would have been seven.

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A memory of Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire shared on Sunday, 7th October 2007.

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