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how many muscles are in the human body?

I'm sure someone out there knows the answer, but really, don't tell me. All I know is that every single one of mine is aching. Not as much as yesterday, thank goodness. Hardly at all now actually. The reason for my discomfort? The bike. And myself of course. I rode on Saturday, further than I've ever ridden since I first got on the bike. Heh, I'm such an over-achiever.... Anyway, earlier this year, I'd bought a basket to go on the front of the bike. Nothing as simple as the old-fashioned sort that just hooks over the handlebars. Oh no. This complicated little s*** of a basket needed a fixture fitted to the handlebars with power tools. I don't have any. Plus I looked at the instructions and they might as well have been written in Klingon for all the sense I could make of them. So, Saturday. I put the basket in a big old garbage bag, (bright yellow, for easy visibility by passing motorists), and decided it was now or never. I was riding into...