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OPINION
Mystery
Mon, Sep 14, 2009 13:47
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Clips.A corner, a kerb, a double-yellow line, a pair of cycle-clips, a paper-clip and a cigarette-butt.
There are eight million stories in the Naked City; this is just one of them.
Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he's not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he's not doing either of those he's pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he's agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don't He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
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The thief was obviously a transvestite smoker on his way home from the office.
Have you been drinking or worse?