Cars? It’s easy to move them, once you’ve learned how, but you’re never really connected to them, you always have to counter-intuitively move your feet or your arms to control them: you can never just lean and go with the flow.

There’s walking. That comes close: certainly, it is simple. But it’s just not so easy you always have to lift up each foot individually and put it in front of the other, unlike in cycling where the downward movement of one foot aids the upwards movement of the other.

There’s skateboarding, with its leaning, but that’s hampered by the difficulty of staying on the bloody thing. Then there’s things I haven’t tried, like skiing, snowboarding, surfing, that sort of thing. Now, while I can’t vouch for the ease of these things, I can’t imagine any being as intuitive and natural as cycling (except perhaps kayaking, I imagine that’s a lot to do with leaning and going with the flow), so, what I’m saying is, as far as I’m concerned, cycling is the most enjoyable mode of transport.

It is also, I’ve been lead to believe, the most energy efficient, burning less calories (and no petroleum) than walking over any distance.