Pressure builds, you ignite  and explode, then end up exhausted. A four-stroke engine and the daily grind can have some real similarities. My friend Dave bought his first bike this year and experienced the decompression aspect of riding.

Unless you're smart enough to live where winter means put a sweater on if its cloudy, you'll be spending January looking at screen savers of your road trip last summer and praying for global warming.

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