With regard to Adam Trimingham's article, we don't want to cycle.

You go out in the sunshine and come home soaking wet when it rains. You cannot carry all your shopping on a bike. Some of us are too old, some of us have bad knees. Your bike gets nicked, it's too hilly, you can't travel as far on a bike as you can in a car, there is no air conditioning, no CD player with eight speakers.

You cannot talk to the family as you cycle, you get holes in your trousers on a bike and you arrive at your destination sweaty and grubby.

When will people realise that 20 million of us want to drive our cars and what we want are good roads, cycle-free roads, no cycle lanes on the road, no bus lanes and more car parking.

-Chris Rackley, Burgess Hill, former racing cyclist winner - Kingston to Bognor 1964 in two hours, six minutes, four seconds