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Surely one of life's greater pleasures is spinning the wheels out over our glorious countryside, drinking it in as tracks and lanes meander before us across billowing fields and hills, flecked with sheep and bathed in dappled sunlight. Well, it would be if only it stopped raining. Yet despite the national pastime of agonising about the weather there must be other reasons why only 2% of journeys in this country are made by bike. More than 10% of trips in Sweden -- hardly balmy itself in the weather stakes -- and Germany are on two wheels. The Danish, who know their bacon, manage 18%, and the Dutch are off the scale in their pancake flat lands. Sport may be one reason. Cycling and cycle racing have been popular in Europe since the nineteenth century. It's a well known fact, for example, that in France baguettes are made long and thin for ease of tying to the top tube when shopping. In Italy, when the football season ends, the tifosi turn their attention to the road. But in the UK mountai

Life Cycle Home Humour Essays Travel Images Life Cycle by Geoff Maxted Surely one of life's greater pleasures is spinning the wheels out over our glorious countryside, drinking it in as tracks and lanes meander before us across billowing fields and hills, flecked with sheep and bathed in dappled sunlight. Well, it would be if only it stopped raining. Yet despite the national pastime of agonising about the weather there must be other reasons why only 2% of journeys in this country are made by bike. More than 10% of trips in Sweden -- hardly balmy itself in the weather stakes -- and Germany are

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