This one isn't down to Jermy Claxon, but one of his fellow scribblers in the Sunday Times Driving section, May 20, page 21.
In a piece entitled "Top of the Lover League" Roland White scribbled the following;
equivalent of the reclining bicycles that you ride lying down."
Aparently the Smart car comes seventh in a list of cars whose owners admitted adultery in a poll conducted by somebody or other. Unfortunately we are not told where the owners of 'Reclining Bicycles' fitted into the list.
Terry Duckmanton
Tifosi CK7. Cycling equivalent of a Jaguar estate?
I was mildly amused by the last paragraph: "There’s one puzzling thing about all this. The German company that did this survey for the magazine carried out a more general investigation into adultery a couple of years ago. It found 59% of men admitted cheating in the bedroom, which means that drivers are well below the national average. This suggests there could be some very randy cyclists out there."
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Tifosi CK7. Cycling equivalent of a Jaguar estate?
I've seen the Street Machine compared to a Bentley - not the fastest machine out there, but what it lacks in speed it more than makes up for in comfort :-)
I've seen the Street Machine compared to a Bentley - not the fastest machine out there, but what it lacks in speed it more than makes up for in comfort :-)
Though it has a "GT" tag ISTM that the Speedmachine is more analogous to the original Gran Tourismo concept of a sports car you can go touring in with more luggage than a Visa card (or back in the 50s, a large envelope of cash!).
As for being smug, well, it wasn't /my/ idea most people should ride around on wee triangles of leather or plastic perched on a pole while I have a sprung, padded armchair... ;-)
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This one isn't down to Jermy Claxon, but one of his fellow scribblers in the Sunday Times Driving section, May 20, page 21.
In a piece entitled "Top of the Lover League" Roland White scribbled the following;
Quoted message said:
equivalent of the reclining bicycles that you ride lying down."
Aparently the Smart car comes seventh in a list of cars whose owners admitted adultery in a poll conducted by somebody or other. Unfortunately we are not told where the owners of 'Reclining Bicycles' fitted into the list.
But IIRC it wasn't all bad for the smart-car owners. They didn't commit adultery because erm, everything was more than fine at home - seemingly not the case for Porsche owners.
The bloke who bought Mrs Larrington's Kingcycle turned up to a race with it a few weeks later, strapped to the back of a Smart. This all goes to show something, although I'm sure I don't know what.
On Mon, 31 May 2004 13:55:04 +0100, Terry D <[email hidden]> wrote in message <jMGuc.201$cN.153@newsfe2-win>:
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Aparently the Smart car comes seventh in a list of cars whose owners admitted adultery in a poll conducted by somebody or other. Unfortunately we are not told where the owners of 'Reclining Bicycles' fitted into the list.
Somewhat puzzled: surely the lower in the league table the better? Speaking as someone who has never committed adultery and probably never will[1] I nearly went out and bought an Astra, but then I realised: the reason Astra drivers don't commit adultery is because they have all the pulling power of a Fair Isle sleeveless cardigan...
[1] I freely admit that this may be making a virtue out of an inevitability, being an ugly [censored].
