On My Own Two Wheels: Back in the Saddle at 60

Four years ago Malachi O'Doherty - writer, journalist and broadcaster - shook the cobwebs off the old bicycle parked in his backyard and found that he had grown too fat to ride it comfortably. He got rid of it. But in just a few months, everything changed. Malachi, approaching sixty, found that he had type two diabetes. On medical advice he lost over two stone … and rediscovered cycling - the frets, the struggles and, most of all, the joys.