In every cyclist's life, there's time when local roads once shrugged as mild slopes turn into a little climb. When hills are easily crossed, mountains become unexplainably tough can only be overcome by using electric mountain bike . And you can make a convenient pretext if you are tempted to leave this flat pipe as it is. You can only admit in the last few years you've gradually deleted every trace of the once famous but powerful ride from the shops, pretending to be somehow calm and more scenic on your new, coincidentally flattened route. However, you actually know that you are cycling miles away just to stay on level, to avoid the miserable shameful effects of gravity that are revealing ages. The pitch of my once-pressed push bikers is now as far as my memories of pedaling up and down happily, untroubled by creaky knees, chy hips and dripping brower, and made lazily by jumping into the car in favor of local sales ("it'll be easier to pick up that pin...