Spotted at the infinitely charming
Evandale Village Fair and National Penny Farthing Championships this weekend in Tasmania: The following (folding!) tandem bicycle parked neatly next to the sign for 'Scone Street'.
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| Tandem in Evandale. |
Talk about being instantly predisposed to like something. Scone Street?! Bicycles? Tandems and Penny Farthings? Not to mention a village full of Georgian buildings. Evandale was a kind of personal heaven. The pavements were too narrow to get a side-on shot of the tandem, which was parked in a very busy section full of Penny Farthing race spectators. Just to photograph it twice I had to stand some metres away squeezed against a building, waiting patiently for the shot to clear. I did walk past to see the brand, Bike Friday - but couldn't photograph the tandem in any more detail. This was as close as I came:
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| Bike Friday Tandem |
Upon sitting down to do this post I was astonished to discover via Google that the
Bike Friday had come all the way from the Hipster Homeland, Oregon USA! It gladdens my heart to think of the little folding tandem from America, so far from home but bringing so much pleasure to its passengers, cruising around the eucalypt scattered streets of our tiny island.
