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Seems they may have spotted one of us over at [url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/man-attempting-to-get-massive-bike-on-train-20151015102949 ]The Daily Mash[/url].
LooKs like a commuter hack bike though, only £1,500!
APF
I was once in a rail platform with a bike, as I didn't fancy riding the 80mile round trip to my destination. First train on a Sunday morning, only a few others on the platform. Then a porter arrived pushing a middle aged lady in a wheelchair, waiting for the train and making small talk I can hear as I'm around 8 feet away..
Nothing out of the ordinary so far.
Anyway the train arrives and for reasons unknown it's twice the normal number of carriages. The porter says to the lady 'oh look Mrs (whatever), it's a big train, so there will be plenty of space for you.'
'Well as long as I'm nowhere near a bloody bike!'
Both the porter and I looked at my bike, then her, then each other, speechless.
Not quite accurate, it'd be in or on the Audi, not with the commoners on a train!
“Everyone knows that if you want to take a bike on a train it has to be one of those fold-up ones designed to take away your last shred of dignity.”
chuckles
It could be a fair description of me and my Trigger 29 on trains. I never go rush hour but the fat tyred beast won't fit into bike rack on the train from Bournemouth to Weymouth and when it's hanging from its hook on Cross Country trains the bars stick out a few inches into the corridor. I do feel a tiny bit guilty, but not enough to stop doing it.
Bloody Mash adverts over 90% of the page blocks the article.
It's almost 5 miles
I love the mash, never fails to raise a chuckle.