He fled Paris on a bicycle during the Nazi Occupation and, after a stint in the French Resistance, later found himself by chance serving as an air force photographer in France's Indo-China war in the early 1950s, travelling through Vietnam and then Cambodia, completely self-taught.
Recent research from Sophos, in which Lyne travelled around various UK cities on a bicycle to test router security, found in some some areas more than a third had bad security practices.
"It required a heart-stopping flight from Kinshasa to the regional capital of Kisangani, then 350km down a jarring, one-rut bicycle path on the back of a motorcycle.
If you want respect, you have to earn it.'" If you travel in a city during rush hour, the chances are you will have seen someone on a bicycle pull a stunt that, had it been perpetrated by a car driver, would have seen them dragged from the wheel and strung from the nearest lamp-post.
The most visible is Hanoi's transportation sector, which shifted dramatically (pdf) from bicycle to motorbike and now to car over the last twenty years.
In 1990, 80% of trips were made by bicycle, whereas in 2005, 97% were by motorcycle.
Majuli is as flat as a chapati, making it perfect for exploring by bicycle.
Most cross-cultural: Over 100 cyclists from Jordan, Israel and Palestine taking part in a three-day bicycle relay to carry water from the Yarmouk River and the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea to symbolise the need for cooperation to stop climate change and save precious water resources.
El Tri have endured a dreadful campaign and were able to enjoy rare celebration with Raúl Jiménez's last-minute bicycle kick to beat Panama over the weekend.
When I was 14, my father took me on a tandem bicycle trip across the mountains.
As Anil Shahi, who works behind the coffee counter at the Base Camp cafe, says: "If someone buys a bicycle, then their status is down".
