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I bike everywhere.

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 love cars, but I love bikes more.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.

A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

To learn to ride a bicycle, as with the other great noble human inventions, is a hugely complex activity. Generally, it requires three things: the learner, the teacher and the bicycle, all in the same place at the same time, most often outside someplace.

As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.