As we have all watched the crowds in Yorkshire and seen the interest in cycling from non cyclists to serious and not so serious‚ could this be the start of a renaissance of British cycling as was the case before and after the second world war. I sense a feeling of a country having the feel good factor and welcoming fitness with scenery‚ and lots of benefits that a family can enjoy together. The 1950’s were a great time to be English‚ a new housing boom was created‚ the war was over‚ after rationing people had hope. Even more though they worked hard and were fit‚ with mainly manual jobs and walking or cycling to work. Mobiles phones and computers and the great FAT FOODS from America that have destroyed the diets of Western kids‚ were not around then. People ate simply and were fitter and cycling was a key to this. Unfortunately the roads are not what they were then and not even how they were 35 years ago having seen traffic double in this time. But the wheel always goes round a full circle‚ and this I feel is the time that the people of England will make a change for the better by embracing the bicycle.
