Fools

Here at FMFT we were quite frankly too busy looking forwards to four days off work to really be bothered to creatively come up with any sort of April Fool tomfoolery, but that didn’t stop a few bike sites getting right on the case. Future’s websites ran a couple of stories about a Hummer they would be using to promote cycling and a breakthrough in lightweight frames, while Pearl Izumi came up with a new chamois that they were hoping to put on Uranus. Blog Biking Bis had a story on the recall of 200 Million bikes in the US, which luckily also isn’t entirely true, yet at least.

In the spirit of the 1st of April I was confused by a report I found of a robbery in Great Missenden (which my extensive research has placed as left and up a bit from London). I suppose an armed robber on a travel agent and an escape on bikes makes some sort of logical sense form a criminal perspective, but I wonder at the thought process that led one of the robbers to use a balaclava and the other to elect to use an umbrella to cover his face. I feel that he must have skipped some basic lessons in robbery, not least that it would certainly look suspicious (or at least ridiculous) as he made his escape on a bike with an umbrella held in his hand.

Rest assured that this is not a crime to be concerned about in London. In the time it would take the robbers to enter a London travel agent, and complete the heist, their bikes would undoubtedly have been stolen from outside the shop.

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