Goodwill was speaking to a parliamentary inquiry into cycling in May 2016 and was asked why relatively so few British women ride bikes, he gave an alarming response. There are several genuine and interconnected reasons for why this happens, almost all connected to poor bike infrastructure. Goodwill, however, breezily recollected how his wife had once told him she worried about getting “helmet hair” if she rode a bike.14 This is the man with ultimate responsibility for cycling in the UK. We should despair.
