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Apart from London, cities with high cycle use are at the moment are Cambridge (28 per cent of all journeys), York (19 per cent), Gosport (15 per cent) and Crewe 12 per cent: so it's not just student towns. York, Cambridge and Crewe are very flat cities (Gosport anyone?).

It's unpleasant cycling up a heavily car-congested hill. Cars are at their noisiest and dirtiest, the relative speed between the 2 vehicles is demoralising and pinch points can be an absolute nightmare (the cyclist is not moving fast enough to move out into the traffic before the pinch point). If hills are holding back potential cyclists in other cities (and let's face it it's one reason why Germans, Danes and Dutch ride bikes so much) it's time for another inventor to have a crack at a hybrid powered bike.