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Four bike riots, four years in the life of Black Britain. On the road, we found ourselves again.

Written and read by Anathioque Ekperum.

2020.

That was the summer we cycled out of celebration.

That was the summer we cycled out of resistance.

Can you picture it?

More than a thousand of us moving through an empty central London

like a flock of birds.

There was no hierarchy or dress code.

There were racing bikes, and there were mountain bikes bikes and they were rented Santander bikes.

Men and women, middle-aged adults, teenagers and children.

Almost all of us were black. We'd come from all over the country. We'd come by

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