"You can keep the internet. You can keep the computer and the mobile phone. In the bicycle humanity has its most perfect invention of the last three hundred years and in Bella Bathurst the bike has found the best and brightest booster so far." BORIS JOHNSON
Paperback edition of the book on all aspects of bicycles and cycling. The bicycle's use in Britain has doubled and doubled again since the millennium, and more and more people are cycling enthusiasts. Bathurst takes the reader through cycling's best stories and strangest incarnations, from the use of a bike as a weapon of warfare to the woman who watercycled across the Channel. 'At last - a bicycle book for the rest of us...' "Guardian"
