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An Irony of Cycles


he could explain the lack of research into hitch-hiking by comparing it to the mundane activity of local cycling! Instead he's opened the door to an even more objective demonstration of the very strangeness of this lack of research - in the order of 1000 articles have appeared on cycling safety since the late 1970s (which is about on every week or two) and not a single significant piece on the safety of hitch-hiking! Hardly an explanation as to why the lack of research ...

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[4] Hitch-hiking of course is a word that's used far more widely than chit-chatting about transport by thumb. There is the inescapable Douglas Adams, a good handful of biological and genetic theories, telecommunications and astronomical devices, and then of course the ubiquitous hitch-hiker's guide books to anything and everything not related to hitch-hiking.

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