Exitability, not to be confused with excitability, is one's capacity to exit and leave a city's confines as effortlessly and smoothly as possible. The parameters are simple: no car, and bicycle (no electric bikes) and trains are allowed. So, the question then becomes: How quickly can you get into the hills, into the unpeopled realm, into the unpolluted and undomesticated dimension? I have an idea of attempting a project which sees me being dropped into the centre of a major city and then having to root my way out of it. In Glasgow, I can do it in 30minutes. Do you think you could trump that? And no racing and rushing. And what about New York or Tokyo? How fast do you think you get into the outside from these places? What about London? I imagine we're talking hours here not minutes. And so, exitability is a craft, a skill that the wild cyclist attains and finetunes simply through the regularity by which he leaves the city. He knows the train stations, the different lines and timetables, the rat-runs through residential areas, and of course the location of the pot of gold. And with this local knowledge (is there any other kind?) he exits the city, and by doing so, enters something else.
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