"No other icon in sport or transport has retained such constant or potent significance [as the bike]. The car, once all open road and opportunity, now evokes the dystopia of Jeremy Clarkson and carmageddon. The train has surrendered its Brief Encounter romance to the absurdity of leaves on the line, and the misery of the sweaty commute."

-Matthew Wright, in the Guardian

Meanwhile:

"The centrality of flight to culture and ‘social drama’ might have seemed obvious as late as the 1930s – but it isn’t now"

-Julius Purcell, in the Financial Times