The Essay - My Life on a Bike
Five Bicycle-Shaped Musings from writer, raconteur and life-long cyclist Andrew Martin.
Growing up in York, a flat cycling town, despite failing his Cycling Proficiency Test, Martin had about 30 bikes in the 1970s. Crossbars have since become top tubes, oil become lube, cycle clips become trouser bands. He resisted mountain bikes in the 80s as ugly and pompous and anyway never cycled up mountains. He currently owns a Dawes racer, aka road bike, and still cycles daily, finding himself now engaged in – thanks to congestion, environmentalism and Covid – a fashionable pursuit.
Written and read by Andrew Martin Produced by Karen Holden
Published on Monday, 27th March 2023.
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