A bit more than wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:54:18 +1000, "kingsley"
wrote:

If you can call them roads. Deep ruts and washaways were very common
100 years ago.

Here in the good old US of A it was the clamoring by the bicycling
public that caused the improvement and paving of roads. Even the Via
Appia was great for carts and foot traffic but would have been hell on
bicycles.

It seems that "we have been hoisted by our own petard".

Jerry