Handlebars, Brakes, Wheels and Gears - Dan Bull

Handlebars, brakes, wheels, and gears

It’s all downhill from here

Handlebars, brakes, wheels, and gears

It’s all downhill from here, yeah

Just you and your bike, you can do what you like

Free as the dreams where you fly from your room in the night

And in two minutes time, you’ll be due to arrive

At the finish line, winning pride, kudos and prizes

The wide world’s full of surprised, if you keep them peeled

Look behind leaves and trees, secrets will be revealed

Roaming round in the lonely mountains

Rolling down dirt roads and counting

Sick of the rat race and all the shouting

You gotta graft in this place to pull the crowds in

Read all about it, paperboy

Leave all the doubters making noise

See scorn and frown on their face, annoyed

That their hypotheses are blatantly destroyed

By the ferocity of you and your velocipede

For conquering what they believed impossibly too tough to beat

Handlebars, brakes, wheels, and gears

It’s all downhill from here

Handlebars, brakes, wheels, and gears

It’s all downhill from here, yeah

Take an outing to the range of mountains here

Let the bounty of nature surround your ears

Listen out and you’re bound to hear

The different sounds that abound from afar and near

Handlebars, brakes, wheels, and gears

It’s all downhill from here

Handlebars, brakes, wheels, and gears

It’s all downhill from here, yeah

Smash glass ceilings, break down doors

That’s that feeling in the great outdoors

No walls, no school for the term

No rules, no cause for concern

It doesn’t matter how often you fail

Just get back in the saddle and follow the trail (keep going)

Your former self’s always hot on your tail

If you keep him in your rearview you’re gonna prevail

You’re gonna fall off, you’re gonna graze knees

You’re gonna train till your joints ache and they seize

To make mistakes is a humanness

So you can take them as painful or humorous

Take your talent, put it to the test

Whether you trained to make it or you’re truly blessed

Really all that you can do is do your best

And let gravity do the rest

Handlebars, brakes, wheels, and gears

It’s all downhill from here

Handlebars, brakes, wheels, and gears

It’s all downhill from here, yeah

Take an outing to the range of mountains here

Let the bounty of nature surround your ears

Listen out and you’re bound to hear

The different sounds that abound from afar and near

Handlebars, brakes, wheels, and gears

It’s all downhill from here

Handlebars, brakes, wheels, and gears

It’s all downhill from here, yeah

Handlebars, brakes, wheels, and gears

It’s all downhill from here

Handlebars, brakes, wheels, and gears

It’s all downhill from here, yeah