Sustainable transport

And what better way to spend part of a bank holiday Monday than fixing one's bike and giving it a bit of TLC - especially when it's thirty-five years old and still in daily use. It's an ancient beast of a road bike, sold by Raleigh to mark their victory in the 1977 Tour de France and made by BSA of rifle steel (it evokes one of two responses from cycle repair shops - admiration that it's still on the road, or variations on "heavy, isn't it"). On the other hand, the one time I was involved in a bad accident, it survived unscathed (as, by some miracle, and apart from some nasty bruising, did I).

Oh yes, and as you can see it's orange. I like to think there's nothing else on the streets of Brighton quite like it.