Possible Clues:

• Bike riders
• Bikers starting chapter on far side of the country for leading criminals with records
• They may be tourists
• Those with bikes starting Chapter on far side of the country for leading criminals with records
• Riders from celebrity on vacation: see notes
• Pedallers
• Sounds like peddlers of revolutionary activists in circulation
• Chris Boardman, Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy, for example
• Tourists, perhaps
• Reg Harris, Miguel Indurain and Lance Armstrong, for example