When you live in the city you can either drag your bike up the stairs of your home, ride an old bike and park it outside using multiple locks or remove your sadle when visiting a friend (and lock it to a fence of course)
Whatever the weather is, newspapers, snailmail, advertisement leaflets are mainly delivered by bike.
Mailman and mailwoman are adults who also deliver larger parcels by car. Delivering newspapers and advertisement leaflets is the first job for a lot of teenagers as its one of the few jobs allowed for 13 year olds.
This type of bike normally has a plastic crate to transport whatever you want transport. The handles, not visible, look like being made of wood as well and the frame has been painted green.
It was a typical "wednesday the 13th" and "Murphy's Law" day. Less than an hour before the deadline I parked my bike in front of the white garagedoor, one wheel in the snow, lit it with the car's headlights and the safetylight above the door et voilà .
Once upon a time in my late teens I bought this Motobecane and enjoyed many rides. When the kids were born it slowly moved to the back of the garage waiting for renovation.
It was snowing again since last night and I did not expect to see many bikes outside on a sunday after having warnings to stay indoors on the radio. So I took my daughters bike outside on the driveway to model for me today.
The perfect solution for people with decreasing health and or increasing age.
Pedelecs have an electric motor that assists pedalling. These bicycles cannot be driven by the motor itself. The motor only functions provided the cyclist pedals himself.
The suitcase contains my cd-player, amplifier, wires and speaker boxes. I went to work like this once a week for over 10 years. Nowadays the classes I teach are to far to go by bike. But today I had a workshop a few blocks from my house.
The Photogsection of Worth1000 challenges us to produce a daily picture in january 2010. As I live in a country filled with cyclists my theme will be Bicycles.