Cyclist Magazine

Sex, bikes and rock ’n’ roll

One of the more unlikely champions of urban cycling is rock star and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne: ‘And you may find yourself in a beautiful house/With a beautiful wife/And you may ask yourself/Well, how did I get here?’

For over 30 years he has packed a folding bike – or hired a bike locally – when visiting foreign destinations and cast his philosophical eye over the landscape from his two-wheeled perspective: ‘Faster than a

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