Coronavirus: Will you really have to wait until 2021 for a new bike?
Toilet rolls. Hand sanitiser. Pasta. Flour. The early pandemic-induced shortages have passed, but now there is a new one: bicycles. As people venture further afield for exercise, or return to the workplace while avoiding public transport, bikes - new and used - are at a premium, write Alice Evans and Ella Wills.
Teacher Saskia Breet had to abandon any hopes of a jaunt to a foreign land this coronavirus-affected summer - but dreamed of getting on her bike and exploring the world around her.
There are plenty of sights to savour within comfortable cycling distance of her Bristol home - but first the 26-year-old needed to buy a bike and she soon found that task was harder than any homework assignment she sets for her secondary school pupils.
Because she plans to follow government advice and use pedal power to get to and from work when her school reopens, Saskia signed up to the cycle-to-work scheme, which allows employees to buy tax-free bikes and equipment.
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