another random (and somewhat spooky thing)
last night I rode back from work, down Norwich Road (Ipswich) past Whitton and Whitehouse estates back to where I live. Just before the Ferodo Bridge [1](a well known local landmark), I passed a young British Asian lad cycling in the other direction.
nothing remarkable about this in multicultural Ipswich, but the lad was wearing almost exactly the same fashions I would have done two decades ago. he was riding a 1980s style hybrid bike (700c wheels, straight handlebars, sensible tyres for the road) – these first appeared around that time as mountain bikes aren’t exactly that practical for East Anglia. of course he wouldn’t have been on a ebike, they weren’t invented then! :laugh_at:
there are probably rational reasons for this to do with todays “retro” culture but it was sort of like I was looking at myself 20 years ago, and this stone cold sober..
[1] this is the bridge http://www.freston.net/stuff/ip-ferodo.html
