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Thu 07 Jul 2009Cyclists unite - you have nothing to lose but your chains
The seemingly irreversible long-term decline of the bicycle may at last have been arrested, writes JOHN GIBBONS.
‘WHEN I see an adult on a bicycle”, wrote HG Wells, “I no longer despair for the human race.” When asked to choose the world’s most important inventions since 1800, three in five respondents to a BBC radio poll picked the bicycle.
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