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Once you learn to cycle, you never forget - so they say. And that’s absolutely true. Pedalling is a skill for life. I began…

Once there was just the bicycle and leg power. Today cyclists tend to look more like astronauts, thanks to all the technological devices that…

The global economic crisis hasn’t caused social isolation, as many feared. On the contrary, I’d like to argue that it has enhanced interpersonal relationships…

Once a bicycle had metal spokes, a chromed metal bell and a heavy frame. And it was full of the spirit of adventure. In…

‘When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle…

The first bike sharing system began in 1965 in Amsterdam by Luud Schimmelpenny, a Dutch industrial designer and politician, in association with Provo counterculture….

When referring to Italian cycling legends, it goes without saying that Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali, are the greatest and most famous cyclists in…

The story of legendary Italian cyclist Marco Pantani is a tragic one. In a parabolic rise and fall, the last champion to win the…

She always used to wear black. Not because she wanted to be particularly elegant, but because she wanted to be inconspicuous, as she was…

THE LIFE OF A SPORT JOURNALIST BEFORE THE ADVENT OF TECHNOLOGY I went to Italy last month to get away from my busy everyday…

Can a bicycle be a work of art? Marcel Duchamp (born in 1887, France), a pioneer of Modern Art, certainly saw the appeal of…