A good read, you ought to think about contributing to Adventure Cycling's magazine.

Oh, and you must be into Zen Buddhism or something, this bit sounds just like my yoga instructor.

I think about the amazing magic of a modern bicycle- all those smartly placed levers, pulleys and cables easing and exerting forces on one another and the energy in and out of that system. I see my body as an equally magical secondary system interacting with the first- pressing and yielding to produce nothing more than to get back to where I started.