Box Hill Cyclist

cfsmtb said:

Garnered this from the Audax list, apparently there's a 50's + chap in the Box Hill area who rides a nice steel frame with milkcrates for panniers, toeclips and ... a nifty aluminium collander for a helmet tied on with shoelaces.

Anyone seen him cycling around or talked to him?

Starts humming Brian Eno's "King's Lead Hat".

😄

Live in Box Hill myself, but haven't encountered him as yet! (Sounds like one of those Box Hill South people, not us refined, more sophisticated Box Hill North types :p ) Shall keep an eye out...

At least he's considered ventilation in his choice of headgear...

cfsmtb said:

Garnered this from the Audax list, apparently there's a 50's + chap in
the Box Hill area who rides a nice steel frame with milkcrates for
panniers, toeclips and ... a nifty aluminium collander for a helmet
tied on with shoelaces.

Anyone seen him cycling around or talked to him?

Reminds me of a story from quite a few years ago. A mate living in NZ
went to a sendoff party for a pom who was heading back to home. The pom
got absolutely blotto and decided to go motorbike riding around auckland
with a collander for a helmet. he got pulled up by the police and
evidently the conversation went somethign like this;
Cop; What's your name?
Pom: Martin from England
Cop: When's your birthday?
Pom: dd mmm (some day and month I can't recall)
Cop: What year?
Pom; Every year
Cop: Any reason we shouldn't book you
Pom: I'm going home to England tomorrow
Cop: .... ah stuff it get on your way then

I wonder if he's found his way to Box Hill??

DaveB

DaveB said:

I wonder if he's found his way to Box Hill??

Possible if he's lost his license, and now forced utilise either shanks pony or the pedally.

cfsmtb said:

Garnered this from the Audax list, apparently there's a 50's + chap in
the Box Hill area who rides a nice steel frame with milkcrates for
panniers, toeclips and ... a nifty aluminium collander for a helmet
tied on with shoelaces.

Anyone seen him cycling around or talked to him?

Starts humming Brian Eno's "King's Lead Hat".

😄

Toeclips! How absurd!

--
Peter McCallum
Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA

cfsmtb said:

Garnered this from the Audax list, apparently there's a 50's + chap in the Box Hill area who rides a nice steel frame with milkcrates for panniers, toeclips and ... a nifty aluminium collander for a helmet tied on with shoelaces.

Anyone seen him cycling around or talked to him?

Starts humming Brian Eno's "King's Lead Hat".

😄

reminds me of when I lived on Lamma Island in Hong Kong, there was this guy "mr saucepan head", a chinese local, the demented , illegitimate son of the local head honcho, who lived "in" the Yung Shu Wan village refuse station, and would walk around with a saucepan on his head and bashed it with a wooden paddle...he would do this all day, and would smile like Michael out of Ryan's Daughter, ...sometimes he would do this on his bicycle...saving grace , there are no cars in the streets on Lamma ( just bikes, lots of dogs and cats, little old chinese ladies in pajamas going from mah jong session to choy sum fields and these little noddy carts (tiny motorised lorries 5 feet long and two feet wide) that did all the carting from the fresh killed pig at the wharf every day to bricks and firemen...

..lots of Becks, chips and mayo and sports bars...

ah, life is beautifull!

eddiec said:

Live in Box Hill myself, but haven't encountered him as yet! (Sounds like one of those Box Hill South people, not us refined, more sophisticated Box Hill North types :p )

Well of course he's from Box Hill South - he's obviously a fiercely independent free-thinker, not one of those straight-laced conformist drones from the wrong side of Whitehorse Road.

I'm glad to see in using the colander he's combining the impact safety of a bike helmet with the mind control safety of a tin-foil hat. Very wise.

And what exactly is wrong wtih toe-clips?

treadly&me said:

I'm glad to see in using the colander he's combining the impact safety of a bike helmet with the mind control safety of a tin-foil hat. Very wise.

How about matching tin-foil undies? Actually utilising a colander may of saved several RMIT employees from nasty headaches.
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