Letter: Re-cycling: green cars and old bikes

Sir: I greatly enjoyed your description (29 July) of Chris Boardman's bicycle, which he used to win a gold medal for Britain yesterday. This wonderful bike is another example of British inventiveness, and it must have contributed something to Boardman's victory.

Let us hope that such synergies as those between bicycle designer Mick Burrows and Lotus can now be used to achieve a British lead in producing the lighter, leaner and greener cars that are needed if the motor car is not to destroy our environment completely.

Yours faithfully,

PAUL NIEUWENHUIS

Cardiff

30 July

The writer is a co-author of 'The Green Car Guide'.