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Bikes are sometimes used as advertising boards. Fine if it's outside a shop or on otherwise unused space (such as this, for Bodmin Jail, in Bodmin). Even better if it's actually being ridden around.
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Anyway, who needs yoga? Locking up any normal bike properly - manoeuvring your half-ton U-lock round the back wheel, frame and rack, and then snaking the heavy-duty cable all the way through every gap in the bike, the front wheel, and the rack again - surely requires contortion enough.
Particularly true if the bike on the other side of the rack has been locked in an awkward position.
ReplyDeleteBut, to be serious. A bike book I have says that muscles contract during cycling so doing some stretching exercises is not such a bad idea.
cobweb.
In my local town centre the fashion chain 'Jigsaw' had attached a crummy mountain bike to the racks outside their shop. I can't imagine how a knackered mountain bike with 2 flat tyres sprayed matt grey and sprinkled with white dots and a 'Jigsaw' logo helped to sell their image.
ReplyDeleteAfter went in the shop an politely asked them to remove it - guess what? The did absolutely nothing, claiming they didn't have the key for the lock. They promised to try to remove it. After a few weeks I went back with some very sticky yellow and black hazard tape and generously wrapped the bike up. I then reported it to the town centre management as an abandoned bike. Within a day or 2 it was gone.
J, Kingston