Testing Jeremy Corbyn's dream bike: the £475 Raleigh Criterium

Keep the red Raleigh flying? We try out the bike that the Labour leader chose as his ideal purchase

It all began in a fairly unlikely fashion: Jeremy Corbyn agreeing to answer a question from fashion magazine Stylist about his “object of desire”. The Labour leader’s eminently sensible choice was a £475 Raleigh Criterium bike, to replace his older model from the same company.

Then things got weird. The Telegraph newspaper ran a story about the mini-interview, headlined: Socialist Jeremy Corbyn reveals he covets a £475 bicycle, perhaps forgetting that other political positions are possible between the binary choices of unfettered free-market liberalism or zero-possession ultra-Marxism.

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