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Crap Cycling & Walking in Waltham Forest
Friday, 4 December 2009
On a learning curve
David Millward
, the
Telegraph’
s transport editor, has been trying out cycling, plainly with a view to exposing the sinister world of the lycra lout.
And now, to his surprise, he has become
an outraged cyclist.
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