'Bents not Smart?

[Terry D]

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?

 

[Tony Raven]

Terry D wrote:
>
> Aparently the Smart car comes seventh in a list of cars
> whose owners admitted adultery in a poll conducted by
> somebody or other.
>

But not on the back seat it would seem ;-)

Tony

 

[Mark McN]

Reply to Terry D

> equivalent of the reclining bicycles that you ride
> lying down."
>

Ar, well, it'll be the word "smug" which evidently made him
think of recumbents |-)

--
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squeak, We like to see him biting fingers in his horny beak.

 

[Danny Colyer]

Terry D quoted:

> equivalent of the reclining bicycles that you ride
> lying down."

I'm still trying to figure out how. Is it because they're
more efficient?

I found the article here: <URL:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-
1125978,00.html>

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."

> 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

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my
reply address)
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dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

 

[Peter Clinch]

Danny Colyer wrote:

> 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... ;-)

Pete.
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Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net [email protected]
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[Anonymous Cowar]

On Mon, 31 May 2004 13:55:04 +0100, Terry D wrote:

> 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.

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.

 

[Dave Larrington]

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.

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[Keith Willoughb]

Dave Larrington wrote:

> The bloke who bought Mrs Larrington's Kingcycle

Every time I read "Kingcycle", I mentally preface it with an
apostrophe, and giggle. I blame Terry Pratchett.

--
Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/ "Not waving, but
drowning."

 

[Just Zis Guy]

On Mon, 31 May 2004 13:55:04 +0100, Terry D
<[email protected]> wrote in message
<jMGuc.201$cN.153@newsfe2-win>:

>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 *******.

Guy
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