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''Just wonderful two wheels good, Laura Laker brilliant. Part travel diary, part love poem to Britain''s cycle network ... it''s difficult not to be inspired by this fabulous book.'' Jeremy Vine

''With a passion for both cycling and words, there are few more qualified to paint a picture of the NCN''s potential than Laura Laker.'' Chris Boardman

A unique journey around the UK's National Cycle Network and one journalist's quest to investigate the state of our country's cycling.

What if we were less reliant on our cars? What if there were safe cycling paths to take us places instead? What if those paths led to the next town, the next village and the countryside beyond?

This was the dream of a group of Bristolian idealists in the 1970s when they founded Britain's National Cycle Network, which now runs to nearly 13,000 miles across the country. Journalist Laura Laker sets off on an odyssey around the UK to see where the NCN began, and

Potholes and Pavements

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    A Paperback by Laura Laker

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 1 September 2024
      ISBN-13 9781399406468
      978-1399406468
      ISBN-10 1399406469
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Just wonderful two wheels good, Laura Laker brilliant. Part travel diary, part love poem to Britain''s cycle network ... it''s difficult not to be inspired by this fabulous book.'' Jeremy Vine

      ''With a passion for both cycling and words, there are few more qualified to paint a picture of the NCN''s potential than Laura Laker.''       Chris Boardman

      A unique journey around the UK's National Cycle Network and one journalist's quest to investigate the state of our country's cycling.

      What if we were less reliant on our cars? What if there were safe cycling paths to take us places instead? What if those paths led to the next town, the next village and the countryside beyond?

      This was the dream of a group of Bristolian idealists in the 1970s when they founded Britain's National Cycle Network, which now runs to nearly 13,000 miles across the country. Journalist Laura Laker sets off on an odyssey around the UK to see where the NCN began, and

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