The article, “The vanishing art of riding a bicycle” (Open page, October 1), reminded me of a commercial by the Petroleum Conservation Research Association, where a father and son are in their car at a traffic signal and with the ignition on. The son tells his father that when he grows up, he will own a cycle repair shop as looking at the way people are wasting fuel, there won’t be any left for the next generation. He feels people would end up using bicycles again. Riding a bicycle teaches one that in life you need to have balance.
T.S. Karthik,
Chennai