Just to be clear, it's not all about the thrill for me either, it's just when I was bombing that hill with nothing but two wheels between me and being smeared a

Just to be clear, it's not all about the thrill for me either, it's just when I was bombing that hill with nothing but two wheels between me and being smeared across the road I realised what it might feel like to have the power of a motorcycle under you. I ride safely, I'm not swerving between cars at traffic lights or squeezing through gaps. In the UK, where I live, there are very few roads cyclists aren't allowed on, basically motorways (70 mph speed limit). Regardless I use a route-planning app called Komoot that uses cycle-specific data and heat maps to give you the safest route. We have national laws that say drivers must treat bicycles as if they were a car and leave them space as such etc., not that it actually happens in practice.