So I tracked it – from a distance – around the corner, and another, to … a bike shop. “A bike shop,” I exclaimed to myself with a socially distanced muffle, and such shock as not heard since Lady Bracknell uttered “A handbag!” on discovering her daughter was about to marry a man originally found in … a handbag. This remarkable popularity of a most unremarkable bike shop was quite the surprise – though I had already noted the growing numbers of people on bicycles since pandemic regulations eased. Undoubtedly, one of the more unforeseen consequences of the pandemic has been the exponential growth in bicycles. Bicycle, from bi Latin for “two”, and a Latinised form of the Greek kyklos, for “circle, wheel”.

Source: The Irish Times June 26, 2020 23:26 UTC