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It says in my notes, which I'm transcribing to clean up my notebook for tomorrow's ride, that on Saturday, the fifteenth of September of 2018, I arrived at the library to find my preferred parking spot taken. Not only that, the entire rack was full and I and had to use the other rack that forces you to put your front wheel in the flowers. I probably wasn't the first to use that slot, since the rose moss looked rather tattered. I frequently park at businesses where there is only one place to park a bike, and yet it was noteworthy that I couldn't park in my usual spot. One of the high points of my tour in Southern England sometime in the eighties was a sign saying "don't park your bike on this gate". I hear that in the intervening forty years, England has lost interest in bikes. Pity that -- it's the only place I ever met anyone who knew that he was ignorant of bicycles. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 11:10:19 PM UTC-4, Joy Beeson wrote:
It says in my notes, which I'm transcribing to clean up my notebook for tomorrow's ride, that on Saturday, the fifteenth of September of 2018, I arrived at the library to find my preferred parking spot taken. Not only that, the entire rack was full and I and had to use the other rack that forces you to put your front wheel in the flowers. I probably wasn't the first to use that slot, since the rose moss looked rather tattered. I frequently park at businesses where there is only one place to park a bike, and yet it was noteworthy that I couldn't park in my usual spot. One of the high points of my tour in Southern England sometime in the eighties was a sign saying "don't park your bike on this gate". I hear that in the intervening forty years, England has lost interest in bikes. Pity that -- it's the only place I ever met anyone who knew that he was ignorant of bicycles. Hereabouts, there are few provisions for bicycle parking, I usually lock my ride to traffic signs. In the few places where they have made provision, it is usually a ring-on-post that puts the bicycle in other people's way. https://goo.gl/images/oUKKp7 -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO |
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