This blog post stems in part from a chat I had with Cllr Ed Hodson the Cabinet member for transport in my neck of the woods, which has already on been described in Karl McCracken's blog.  Although Cllr Hodson was probably not a natural political proponent of cycling, he did at least know what a set of panniers was.

I'd put Cllr Hodson's age as mid to late 60's, which means that he would have been born in the late1940's and grown up in a Britain where bicycle modal share although in decline w...
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