A London businessman suffered a terrible indignity while dodging the Ash Cloud Crisis this weekend, reports the BBC: he had to buy a woman's bike to cycle on to a ferry with.
I've always rather enjoyed cycling on to and off of ferries. There's a chapter about it in my 50 Quirky Bike Rides book.
And we can report that the Isle of Man ferry, contrary to the cycling enforcers of Norfolkline in the news story, insists that you dismount and walk your bike en route to or from Douglas (right).
But then, on the Isle of Man, it was probably an offence until recently for men to ride women's bikes, until those meddling EU bureaucrats forced them to harmonise.
