Riding back to good health on an e-bike | Brief letters

Electric bicycles | 18th-century bathing pools | Question of sport | Lisa Cameron’s defection

It’s good to see the recent tips for keeping fit , but please don’t dismiss the value of electric bikes in the same breath as cars or scooters (Letters, 11 October). An e-bike will take you nowhere without physical input from the rider. Having undergone major heart surgery some years ago, I can testify to the huge benefits to my wellbeing as a result of the thousands of miles I have covered on my e-bike, including two coast-to-coast rides with my fellow patients, the Electric Cranks.
Bob Gower
Blackburn, Lancashire

• Regarding the discovery of an 18th-century cold bathing pool in Bath (Archaeologists uncover rare 18th-century cold bath under Bath Assembly Rooms, 9 October), a similar stone-lined and spring-fed plunge pool, part of a listed Georgian two-storey building, was saved and restored more than 20 years ago here in Congleton. Volunteers have maintained the building and added a physic garden in its grounds.
John Cockell
Congleton, Cheshire

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