THE ESSAY – RE:CYCLING

10.45PM, RADIO 3 ★★★★

The writer and keen cyclist Andrew Martin abhors the sight of a peloton of blokes tightly encased in

Lycra. Even worse, according to Andrew, is the sight of a

MAMIL (Middle-aged Man In Lycra). Andrew claims that all this Lycra is unnecessary, as a chap in a tweed suit with a pipe clenched between his jaws would only go 0.0001% slower than his Lycra-clad competitors. Andrew explains all in this third of his sharp, funny essays on cycling.