It’s the British National Bike Week – and on Thursday, I’ll be attending the University of York Cycle Fair (PDF).

Please excuse me while I enthuse wildly on this subject.

A Matter Of Fact

• Remember those long summer holidays where you bronzed your limbs by cycling helter-skelter down country paths, enjoying the movement of the pit of your stomach when you hit a bump and relishing your own power and immortality? You’ll be the previous generation, then. Nowadays it’s a bitch of the highest magnitude to prise teenagers away from their electronic other halves, and combined with the reaction to the popular media’s dog-with-a-bone respray of the British Isles as the “Paedoph Isles”, kids just aren’t roaming like they used to. Slowly but surely, we’re unlearning to ride.

• Did you know cycling is almost comically efficient?

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