Posts Tagged ‘ people on bikes in regular clothes ’

Number Five - The Retro Bicycle Birthday Girl: Rod brakes? Check! Hub dynamo? Check! Basket tied up with a ribbon? Check! Regular clothes for a warm summer’s evening? Check! Glasses perched on top of head? Check! Chain guard? Check! Old bike in lovely condition, which was a birthday present from Boyfriend, inducing a big grin? Check! “Really comfortable to ride, especially the...
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Number Four - The Busy Mum: Extremely sensible, big-grin inducing bike? Check! Sensible luggage capacity? Check! Sensible, every-day clothes? Check! Cotton-bag-over-shoulder-flower-in-hair? Check! Sleeve of child’s raincoat poking out of that bag? Check! Handlebar mounted child seat? Check! Child? Fail! Actually, the child was just out of camera shot on his / her (what do I know?) own bike. Probably less than...
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Number Three - The Chatty Shopper: Sensible fleecy jumper for our mid-summer weather? Check! Non-Lycra jeans? Check! Hand bag securely over one shoulder? Check! Sensible cycling shoes? Check! HUGE (I mean really HUGE!) pannier bags? Check! Basket on the front? Check! Unlike when driving a car: Time, opportunity and motive to stop and shoot the breeze? Check!
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Number Two - The Spirit Of ‘68: Doctor Marten’s boots? Check! Blue jeans? Check! Velvet jacket? Check! Floral print shirt? Check! Shoulder-length silver hair escaping from hippie-trail hat (probably original)? Check! Shoulder / messenger bag full of books, notepads & pens? Check! Bike that often has shopping on the rack & hanging from the handlebars? Check! It could only be local poet,...
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Number One - the vicar who lives around the corner: Shirt & dog-collar? Check! Appropriately summery jacket? Check! Ordinary trousers? Check! Sandals? Check! Sandals without socks? Fail! Obviously a foreigner or some sort of degenerate leftie. Helmet worn as an ironic fashion accessory rather than to actually do anything? Check! Sensible bike? Check! Bag hanging from handle bars? Check!
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