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Please–we take bicycles seriously in Britain!

February 5th, 2006 · No Comments

SportUtilityBike: Zoe with bicycle, laughing, in Cambridge, UK Here we are in Cambridge, UK…surrounded by glorious

  • Renaissance architecture
  • Medieval music, and
  • bicycles, some of them possibly of the same vintage…

So why is Zoe VanderWolk of Greenpass laughing?

It’s hard to keep a straight face when you find out your quintessentially English-with-basket bike (bought from a pawn shop) is in fact ultramodern with Hummer-sized aspirations and labels itself a “Sport Utility Bicycle.”

Yes, I photographed the label but it came out all blurry.

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