If there’s one thing you can be sure of when bike show season comes around, aside from the variations on a theme which make up the new ranges, it’s that there will be a couple of ridiculous bikes kicking around. As ever this year has not disappointed and, despite some kind of recession, there has still been a ridiculously decorated bike to look at and guess the price of.
This year’s theme has clearly been diamonds and gold. It has been designed to actually be used in the real world by someone’s “bike-mad” partner, and is probably, once again, not a bike to leave locked up outside the local shops.
It could even be said to be a bike that is more about the theory of riding it that the actual practice, much like how the Carbon Trust seemed yesterday morning. In a leaked document the company, who are committed to lowering carbon emissions in the UK, were pitched firmly against their employees using bikes to get to and from meetings. In the end a hurried bit of PR work made it clear that they weren’t, in fact, against bikes being used and that the leaked document did not actually reflect the true policy that the company uses. It was simply a case of overzealous health and safety regulation, apparently and the Carbon Trust can confirm that bikes are good for the environment and everything.
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