Kindly GOC member Adam sends us this from his intercontinental excursions:
Spotted in Bicycle Habitat, New York, this Guv’nor watching over Lafayette Street in SoHo.
The shop itself was a pleasure to go in with racks of goodies to peruse and the de-rigueur New York Fixie. Established in 1977 when SoHo was a run down area of Manhattan (a few buildings down was a Methadone clinic) an independent store run by true enthusiasts, the real plus was the desire to stock less mainstream bikes like Mercian and of course in pride of place a Pashley Guv’nor.
Thank you sir. It is the mark of a well-travelled gentleman to have both the roving eye and the ready equipment to capture species in the wild…a doff of the cap to you!
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‘Rule Britannia’…… Mini in the background too!
Ooh…. checkout the angle of the North Roads though…..
Well spotted and documented Adam.
Ride on!
Same observations here.
There was a time when Americans used to laugh about European cars of that size. Not anymore.
And the position of the handlebars just cannot be good for, well, ANYTHING.