Pedal power gets a bit of a push along

Updated October 19 2012 - 5:13pm, first published October 11 2012 - 3:00am

Merryn Coutts, 39, was interested in riding a bicycle to work - for the combination of pleasure, fitness and clean, green transport efficiency it seemed to promise - but felt she wasn't fit enough. ''Not Lycra ready,'' is how she puts it.