Biking saved my life!

Tom Boyle

I gave up biking about six years ago when I decided everyone was trying to kill me. I had several journeys in a row where I was almost knocked off. So rightly or wrongly, I gave it up and pretended I didn’t miss it, getting into classic Minis instead. Then life took a turn for the worse when I suffered from mental health issues. Without going into it, I started making preparations to kill myself. I had some pretty dark days but sought help and though the dark days still come around, I am in a much better place to fight it — and one reason for this has been my rediscovering of biking. An old biking buddy came round one day on his brand-new Honda CB650 and told me about the…

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RiDE United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2018

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