Your On Yer Bike columnist (September 23) asks us to remember that the bike came before the car.

She ought to remind herself that walking came before bicycles; and, before praising a book entitled Roads were not built for cars, that pavements and towpaths were not built for cyclists but for walkers.

Robert Sephton, Selwyn Crescent, Radley

 

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