"There was a time when, in Britain at least, cycling was deeply unfashionable" Had you lined the route of last weekend's British Cyclosportive an event where 5,000 amateurs rode the 117-mile London-to-Canterbury leg of the Tour de France what might have struck you was not the usual garish ... via Times Online
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