Not new, but don't think I've seen before - still true!
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The UK has never needed the bike more. Obese, austerity stricken, and polluting, urban Britain is indeed responding to that need by taking to cycling. I have been using a bike to, from and while at work for 40 years. I can even claim to be a better journalist for cycling. Not only do I get to stories and interviews faster, but the experience of being treated as a fifth class-citizen gives me a perspective that has long since knocked any sense of self importance squarely on the head.
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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/cyclesafety/article3309098.ece