Yesterday I was called to the front of Junction Station to investigate a man lying on the street. I discovered two men with spanners who were dismantling a bicycle so that they could load it and a number of milk crates onto two other bicycles. For about ½ an hour I kept intermittent watch on the complicated procedure – the jigsaw like placing and replacing of bike parts and the delicate threading of rope through the load. It didn’t seem possible to put such a load on a bicycle. But at last they finished and climbed on their bikes. And rode into the station. The main bike was so big I had to open the bypass gate for them.
“Will you fit in the lift?” I asked.
“We’ll just have to see,” shrugged the cyclists cheerfully. They had that alternative lifestyle look and attitude.
Last I saw one of the cyclists was giving me a thumbs up from outside the lift to Platform 6