I WAS heartened to see the inadequate bicycle racks outside Swindon Train Station forecourt had been replaced. The old ones were positioned far too close to the wall and were on such a slant that your bike toppled over as soon as you walked away from it. They have been replaced with a modern two tier system. However, when I looked around for some kind of instruction on how to put your bike, and what seemed like an impossible height for someone like me of advancing years and a little vertically challenged, I found nothing, so had to put my bicycle in the lower tier. I was glad I was wearing my cycle helmet at the time as I think I would have sustained serious head injuries if I wasn’t. As I crouched down to get my bike into the tight space, I tried as hard as I could and failed miserably to avoid banging my head on the upper tier. I then saw a video on Youtube on how it should be done and to be fair, the gentleman in the video made light work of putting his lightweight racing machine on the top tier. Then again, he did seem to be of a youthful athletic build and was clearly well over six feet tall. I feel the video would have been more convincing if we saw an elderly person putting their sit-up-and-beg machine on the upper tier with as much ease.
ANDREW WILKINS Collett Avenue Swindon
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