OPINION

CHARLOTTE BROUGHTON

Sometimes I’m afraid while out riding my bike

Recently I’ve been thinking to myself: am I safe out on my bike? There was pro rider Alex Richardson’s awful episode in Richmond Park the other week, where his bike was stolen from beneath him by machete-wielding criminals, and of course the tragic deaths of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa.

I tend to ride by myself but in rural areas, passing through the occasional