pashley class up the bike lanes
by markdivision2
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Unless you’re a lane-surfing 4WD’er with your phone glued to your ear (in which case, I hope me getting caught under your wheels also causes you to crash and die), you’d know that bikes have been cool again for some time now. And I don’t mean the superfuture road bikes that cost the equivalent of a small boat and strangely make you yearn to wrap your flab in lycra; I’m talking about the stripped bare look of the hipster’s choice, the fixie or garden variety single-speed. But there is a third way – the type of machine that gives more than a sly wink to the simple utilitarian bikes of the past and suggests a leisurely cruise in comfortable clobber rather than too much exertion, geared or otherwise. English manufacturer Pashley has been building some of the best since 1926 and the classic Guv’nor, these days available in Sydney, is still the boss. Single speed or three-geared, it was never meant to be ruined with anything as gauche as a helmet, which is unlikely to help you under a Range Rover anyway.
