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This says reasons to be cheerful with Ed Miliband and Jeff Lloyd. Hello, hello how are you?

All right, how's your week be? At my week's been good. I'll tell you what I've been doing some of

DIY cycling. Wow. Electric cycling. Wow. You know these electric street bikes you can hire.

It's like being on a bicycle only it doesn't hurt as much. Does it help with balance issues the

electric bike or not? I don't know if it would help with your balance issues specifically but

you certainly speed along with very little effort. It's great. Let me just raise something with you

in the supremacy of this podcast which is that my wife has been peddling to me an adult

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