Softly carved wooden wheels hang under a thick plywood frame, wrapped in a thin layer of rubber, and with holes gouged out in place of spokes. It is, to the joyful disbelief of the people Kidus Tesera bumps into on his travels from John o’ Groats to Dover, a bike made nearly entirely out of wood.
And, to everyone’s continued disbelief, it's actually bearable to ride, too. “I’ve been on it for a long time,” he tells Cycling Weekly. "I feel like I’m riding a normal bike." Though Tesera – a mere mortal after all – ultimately concedes: “It was horrible [to ride] at the start.”
