PERHAPS the vocal gentleman in the rear passenger seat of the car that passed me around 4.40pm on the A3102 Wootton Bassett Road on Thursday, July 16 and who called me a 'pervert' would like to know that the absence of a crossbar on my bicycle was as a result of my inability to ride a bicycle in the conformable male configuration; it being an electric bicycle of an upright design which accommodates my muscular disease.

But then, he that knows little often repeats it.

JOHN P HUNTER Shaw Swindon