Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier by Jon Day, book review

Jon Day's ode to the bicycle takes the reader pillion from petrol-choked city to rolling dale in eloquent prose, which at best pedals in beat to the accompanying landscape. Day, a former cycle courier, certainly romanticises the urban velocipede experience – "the exhilaration of pedalling quickly through the city, flowing between stationary cars or weaving through the lines of moving traffic" – but he's caustic about the unforgiving nature of messenger existence on the fringes of society.