"Danny Wilde" <fuzakenbo@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "Paul Blay" <ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk> wrote in message 
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>> "John W." wrote ...
>>> I've ridden horses a lot in my life, and you do get sore muscles, but I
>>> wouldn't call it exercise.
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> The electric horse riding machine's been around for a while now. I saw one 
> about two or three years ago in a local electrical store, near those 
> massage chairs.
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>> At a rough approximation horse riding is about as much 'exercise' as 
>> swiming (slow) or skating (inline).
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> There's nothing like a good slow swime.
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>> Obviously it's not running at 10mph
>> but who wants to do that?
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> A person who wants to reach a destination ten miles away in one hour?
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>Nah...I'd much prefer to ride a bicycle.....smoother than a horse and it 
>don't crap anywhere!!

DJ