Since 2018, Paul Wilcox has travelled the length and breadth of Derbyshire, collecting clapped-out and rusting bicycles and lovingly restoring them to full health. He pushes leaflets through people’s doors, urging them to call him if they have any bikes knocking around their homes that are no longer used.
When he started, he wasn’t sure how popular it would be. But it quickly took off says Wilcox, a 67-year-old from the village of Breaston, between Derby and Nottingham. “People kept ringing me and saying, ‘we have bikes here’, and it snowballed.”
