Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.
Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.
I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.
Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'
Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.
I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly.
In its fifty-first year of publication, 'The Paris Review' continues to search for new ways to bring together writers and readers.
In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.