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In A to B 25:

• Visionaries: Mark McArthur-Christie
• The Trial: Bike Friday Crusoe  (A to B APPROVED)
• The Trial: European Transport Bikes
  
• World View: Eden Project, Biodiesel

August 2001. We liked the Bike Friday Crusoe, which struck us as being the strongest Brompton competitor yet to emerge. It ultimately failed though, perhaps because America wasn’t ready for a folding bike revolution, and the Brompton was too firmly entrenched in the UK. European transport bikes (practical step-thru machines like Sparta and Gazelle) were just getting going in the UK, but they were another overseas idea that didn’t really go anywhere.

DAVID HENSHAW

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