Under a parliamentary plan to encourage cycling, MPs are to be given access to shared folding bikes for travel to and from the House of Commons.
Folding bikes, like the Brompton, are favoured because they can more easily stored inside buildings. Apparently, there’ll only be about half a dozen bikes stored in the House of Commons to begin with, so it hardly seems worth it to me. We all know what bikes can do and how practical they can be so why the need to trial such a scheme of inter-office commuting?
Of course, there are a couple of well-known cycling politicians. David Cameron is often pictured riding around Westminster – sometime going the wrong way down a one-way street. And the wild-haired Boris Johnson is also a regular cyclist.
A certain Norman Tebbit is famous of course for telling us all to get on our bikes!
Are there any other regular cyclists in the world of politics?
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