HAVING followed the three grand tours of cycling – The Giro (Tour of Italy), The Tour de France and The Vuelta (Tour of Spain) – for many years, live, and on TV, I notice one of the customs is to paint the names of certain riders on the roads.

Well I thought, why not in Cheshire East, but quickly realised I would not be able to find a stretch of road sufficiently big enough that is devoid of potholes.

Derek A Pike