My Life on a Bike
From the streets of York to the hills of Highgate, Andrew Martin surveys his own life on a bike and discovers a country more and more enamoured of cycling.
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 鈥� thanks to congestion, environmentalism and Covid 鈥� a fashionable pursuit.
Written and read by Andrew Martin
Produced by Karen Holden
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- Mon 27 Mar 2023 22:45成人快手 Radio 3
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