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Boris aside, who are your heroes on two wheels? | Ben Thomas

Source: guardian.co.uk Politics

Nov 06, 2009

Summary

In the wake of the London mayor's heroics this week, we want your stories of cycling's good samaritans

Guardian reader Lissendis commented on one of this blog's recent posts:

This bike blog is getting a bit depressing. It seems as if the purpose of most of the recent threads is to get us all moaning about something.

Ample evidence of moany postings was supplied, with the plea:

Can we have a few more happy bike blogs please?

Lissendis is right. Cycling should be a happy activity; sometimes even a heroic one. So today let us salute those people – plumbers, hairdressers, shopkeepers, mayors – who become something special when they get in the saddle.

Here are five of this blog's heroes on two wheels.

Boris Johnson

This is a straightforward tale of a mayor becoming a "knight on a shining bicycle". A lady is being menaced by three 10-year-old girls. Enter hero on wheels, blond of hair, burly of stature. He faces them down. They have an iron bar; they decide against using it. He calls them oiks. They flee.

Anonymous (i)

In training for a charity bike ride across Zambia, Zimba

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