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Cycling is shite – a retraction

I hope that if I go back on something I’ve said you won’t lump me in the same category as the Tory government. Or any other government, just so this doesn’t get too political. Either way I’m going to have to do it – change my opinion on something I’ve fought against passionately. On the old Adventure Travel site, I wrote a piece called Five Reasons Why Cycling is Shite (and colleague Bryn wrote a response called Five Reasons Why Cycling is Not Shite. The response is definitely still rubbish). Point number two of my five was how ridiculous mountain biking is – the sort of mountain biking where you go along single-track trails over features like rocks, tree roots and, er, more rocks, that is....
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