101 reasons to love cycling in London #19 - you can win gold!

A friend of mine is a classical violinist who plays all over the world with the London Symphony Orchestra.  Thing is, she never knew she was this amazingly gifted violinist until she actually started to play the violin...

It's the same with cycling.  Of all those kids out there who are riding to school right now, one of them could go on to tear up the velodrome track come the 2012 Olympic Games in London (progress on which we featured here a while ago).  But we'll never know unless those kids get on their bikes and try in the first instance...  Britain's most successful Olympic cyclists, Sir Chris Hoy, started pushing the pedals at the age of six after watching E.T the extra terrestrial...

Parents, I hope you are all listening; giving your kids the chance to win at the Olympics?  It's just reason number 19 to love cycling in London (that, along with raising their IQs, increasing the value of your property, and saving a fortune in Tube fares, congestion charges and carbon emissions.)

Let's face it, no one ever got a medal for riding the Central Line...