A N Wilson on his English-made bike

Great piece by A N Wilson in last weekend’s Financial Times on the bicycle theme. A N has an English-made Pashley:  not the one shown above, but we are keeping this in mind for the Cafe Rocco (www.caferocco.com)

A flavour of the article is provided in the following quotation:

“Throughout the period when the bicycle was being pioneered so, too, was the internal combustion engine, with its greed for oil. Ninety per cent of the world’s sorrows, including modern wars, came from this fatal hunger…”

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