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Liberte, Egalite, Velocite
As Le Tour begins, Mark Perryman offers up a five-point transitional programme for a cycling revolution

BRADLEY WIGGINS, Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas — who would ever have imagined Le Tour would be subject to such a British invasion. 

Yet despite the hype generated by such elite sporting success across Europe, Great Britain only beats Malta ad Cyprus for the fewest number of journeys taken by bike.

To change this, for the good of the nation’s health and the planet’s survival, we need La Revolution might. Or as Trotsky once put it a “transitional programme” in his case from capitalism to socialism, in mine, more modestly from four wheels to two. 

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