I WORK six days a week with the elderly people throughout Haxby and Wigginton. I can often be spotted on my bright-yellow suspension bike.

I have no intention of increasing my speed on roads, and would far rather run the risk of being pulled up for talking to cats on garden walls, as I pass through villages, than be cautioned for speeding, recklessness and high blood pressure.

Slow is best!

Julia Reed,

Whitelands Cottages,

Usher Lane,

York.

Updated: 10:25 Tuesday, August 12, 2003