The nickname for my new bike is "The Vicar" - as in "more tea, Vicar?" - to celebrate it's upright and conservative form.Yesterday the Vicar and I went to the pool via Chaumussay. Here are some pics:
Rightly or wrongly, I associate that style of bike with 'sit up and beg'. This would also fit in with The Vicar.Does The Vicar have SatNav?
References to vicars go right over the head of North Americans.
Anglophiles and even a casual reader of Jane Austen know what a vicar is, but I don't get the link to the bike. Since it's Simon, I figure there's a pun or joke in there somewhere.
Expression of unknown origin, but the meaning is very clear, akin, I guess, to “bless you” or “à vos souhaits” when somebody sneezes!
Le vélo pétarade-t-il?
It's The Vicar because with an upright position like that you very much look like a parish priest doing his pastoral works on a 1950s bike
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Rightly or wrongly, I associate that style of bike with 'sit up and beg'. This would also fit in with The Vicar.
Does The Vicar have SatNav?
References to vicars go right over the head of North Americans.
Anglophiles and even a casual reader of Jane Austen know what a vicar is, but I don't get the link to the bike. Since it's Simon, I figure there's a pun or joke in there somewhere.
Expression of unknown origin, but the meaning is very clear, akin, I guess, to “bless you” or “à vos souhaits” when somebody sneezes!
Le vélo pétarade-t-il?
It's The Vicar because with an upright position like that you very much look like a parish priest doing his pastoral works on a 1950s bike
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