t first, cycling improved my body image. When I bought my first bike, started doing audaxes and took up work as a cycle courier, I remember telling friends that I was sliding steadily along the scale from hating my body all of the time to loving it, even though it was still more or less the same size it had been before. Nearly 20 years later, I’m closing in on the happier end of that scale. It’s difficult to care about
