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“The humble tool for mighty revolutionary change” BBC Radio 4 has a 5 part series on the the social history of the bicycle, starting today with… Lawrence Pollard gets on his bike and discovers the part that the bicycle played in women’s liberation as he re-traces the route of the novel, The Golf Lunatic and His Cycling Wife. The book, by Mrs Edward kennard, isn’t well known now but was a best-seller at the end of the 19th century, and was very popular with “new [...]

The Swedish Crown Princess Victoria and husband Daniel recently visited the Skeppshult factory to collect their pair of V‘s. As Brooks reports, they fitted Flyer saddles and the new Slender Brooks grips. As you probably know, the other Royal couple was given a Cycle Hire Tandem by Boris as wedding gift. Something tells me that it will probably collect dust in some stables; I hope to be proven wrong; in the meantime, here is a picture of Kate Middleton and bike: