Bike Porn

The other day we couldn't access our blog, the message said it had been removed for unauthorised activity.  I rang Suzanne and she was on the verge of admitting that it must have been her that did something "accidentally and potentially illegal" , when bingo it came back - a little technical hitch at Blogger. Speaking on which no doubt everyone is acquainted with Google's new privacy and data protection policy ... now there's an oxymoron for you!

A while ago I went to see a Top Gear Live show in London. One of the segments in the show is called "car porn". They roll out the best in super luxury sports cars.  At the beginning you think "who would spend that much money on a car like that, and where are you ever going to be able to drive it to get to even half of it's top speed anyway?"  Then you find yourself going "actually that's rather nice, I like that, I could see myself in that, I wonder how much they are second hand".  Well ... given that the same thing is starting to happen to me when I go into bike shops (Condor in particular) I thought it was time we had a little porn of our own.

So here we go ... "bike porn".

They all have names of course .. cool names like Squadra, Leggero and Terra-x and frame descriptions to make you go weak at the knees - for example "Dedacciai Custom Nero Forza Monocoque" and "EM2 triple-butted Scandium tubing".

 I have no idea what any of it means, but since when did that matter when what you are looking at is soooo sexy (ok I can hear you now shaking your heads and going "tsk tsk").  well .. they are sexy machines.

These "cute" little machines on the left however, are not sexy machines. At the risk of raising ire amongst their supporters, I have to say I've not noticed any particularly sexy folks riding these little numbers either. If you are really trendy you wear street clothes and ride a single speed or a "fixee" ... think pre and post WWII and modern day France. Anyway .. I know folding bikes are functional but frankly so are the 3 speed London tanks known as "Boris Bikes", which I continue to ride to and fro around town, to the supermarket, the train station etc. Like you imagine for one moment  I would leave Lara locked up somewhere for 8 hours plus out of my sight, next to dusty and greasy undesirables .. I don't think so!!


Here's one more piece of bike porn to leave your drooling ... and no I am not going to tell you what it said on the price tag.  Ladies never ask the price ... and gentlemen never tell ....

Oh I almost forgot. A heart felt thanks to all of you who saw the last blog post about my injuries and asked me ... "is Lara was ok?" - she really appreciated it!!!