I think he needs to shrink it in the wash...
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Kaputnik's New Bike
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Posted 13 years ago #
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I call this pose "holding on for dear life" - it wasn't easy for an antigymnast such as myself to get any purchase on rubbered & cleated soles on a slidy metal tube at a 45 degree angle!
Posted 13 years ago # -
His new bike appears to be a strange combination of single-speed and front suspension with (I assume) carbon fibre wheels and those old rubber pedals. From this angle it looks as if the handlebars are on back-to-front as well.
At least it's securely locked to the stand.
Posted 13 years ago # -
also has cantilever brakes pressing on tubular tyres and mudguard eyelets on the (vertical) dropouts. Lovely attention to detail but assume the artist may not also be a cycling mechanic.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I think you're lucky the owner didn't catch you.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I think he did. Staggered up to us just before we got here as we waited to cross Toucan crossing - all Jamesy Cotter, reeking of booze, with a Sunday Mail folded under one arm.
"Scuze me pal, you don't know where the <<insert name here>> Hotel is do you? Only I wuz on a stag do and I'm no too sure where I am or where it is?"
We had to apologise for being soft east coasters who also didn't know where we were and bid him well. He thought we wiz a bit mental for cycling a whole 10 miles from Glasgow to Clydebank...
Posted 13 years ago # -
That was a lovely moment. Pure Glasgow. Friendly, but reekin' o' booze and meandering aimlessly. That said, we did remark on how much friendlier the cycleroutepath walkers were than in the 'civilised' east.
Posted 13 years ago # -
I stopped counting after 4 passes, but 3 of first 4 groups of pedestrians we passed all offered friendly hellos / good mornings and didn't scowl at us when they called their dogs to heel.
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