There are boundaries in nature. There are rivers, forests, escarpments, ravines and mountain ranges; there are cellulose walls. But these boundaries are in fact areas of transaction, semi-permeable membranes. The notion that a perimeter should be impenetrable is a human contrivance alone.
Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
On the fifth of August, Dutch company Accell filed for a suspension of payments. On the same day, Raleigh, a British company founded in Nottingham in 1887, that provided the bikes of my youth, filed notice that it intended to appoint administrators.
Four weeks earlier the German competition authority had cleared the sale of Accell’s brands, Raleigh among them, to a Singapore group called Dutech. So the name is going somewhere. The company that carried it, and the people inside that company, are going nowhere.
Raleigh built its walls. The name, as with Denby will survive somewhere as a shadow of ifself.
What the walls could not do was pr…