Box Hill Cyclist

Garnered this from the Audax list, apparently there's a 50's + chap in
the Box Hill area who rides a nice steel frame with milkcrates for
panniers, toeclips and ... a nifty aluminium collander for a helmet
tied on with shoelaces.

Anyone seen him cycling around or talked to him?




Starts humming Brian Eno's "King's Lead Hat".





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cfsmtb

cfsmtb Wrote:
Garnered this from the Audax list, apparently there's a 50's + chap in
the Box Hill area who rides a nice steel frame with milkcrates for
panniers, toeclips and ... a nifty aluminium collander for a helmet
tied on with shoelaces.

Anyone seen him cycling around or talked to him?




Starts humming Brian Eno's "King's Lead Hat".




Live in Box Hill myself, but haven't encountered him as yet! (Sounds
like one of those Box Hill South people, not us refined, more
sophisticated Box Hill North types ) Shall keep an eye out...

At least he's considered ventilation in his choice of headgear...


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eddiec

cfsmtb wrote:
Garnered this from the Audax list, apparently there's a 50's + chap in
the Box Hill area who rides a nice steel frame with milkcrates for
panniers, toeclips and ... a nifty aluminium collander for a helmet
tied on with shoelaces.

Anyone seen him cycling around or talked to him?


Reminds me of a story from quite a few years ago. A mate living in NZ
went to a sendoff party for a pom who was heading back to home. The pom
got absolutely blotto and decided to go motorbike riding around auckland
with a collander for a helmet. he got pulled up by the police and
evidently the conversation went somethign like this;
Cop; What's your name?
Pom: Martin from England
Cop: When's your birthday?
Pom: dd mmm (some day and month I can't recall)
Cop: What year?
Pom; Every year
Cop: Any reason we shouldn't book you
Pom: I'm going home to England tomorrow
Cop: .... ah stuff it get on your way then

I wonder if he's found his way to Box Hill??

DaveB

DaveB Wrote:

I wonder if he's found his way to Box Hill??

Possible if he's lost his license, and now forced utilise either shanks
pony or the pedally.


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cfsmtb

cfsmtb wrote:

Garnered this from the Audax list, apparently there's a 50's + chap in
the Box Hill area who rides a nice steel frame with milkcrates for
panniers, toeclips and ... a nifty aluminium collander for a helmet
tied on with shoelaces.

Anyone seen him cycling around or talked to him?




Starts humming Brian Eno's "King's Lead Hat".




Toeclips! How absurd!

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Peter McCallum
Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA

cfsmtb Wrote:
Garnered this from the Audax list, apparently there's a 50's + chap in
the Box Hill area who rides a nice steel frame with milkcrates for
panniers, toeclips and ... a nifty aluminium collander for a helmet
tied on with shoelaces.

Anyone seen him cycling around or talked to him?




Starts humming Brian Eno's "King's Lead Hat".


reminds me of when I lived on Lamma Island in Hong Kong, there was this
guy "mr saucepan head", a chinese local, the demented , illegitimate
son of the local head honcho, who lived "in" the Yung Shu Wan village
refuse station, and would walk around with a saucepan on his head and
bashed it with a wooden paddle...he would do this all day, and would
smile like Michael out of -Ryan's Daughter-, ...sometimes he would do
this on his bicycle...saving grace , there are no cars in the streets
on Lamma ( just bikes, lots of dogs and cats, little old chinese ladies
in pajamas going from mah jong session to choy sum fields and these
little noddy carts (tiny motorised lorries 5 feet long and two feet
wide) that did all the carting from the fresh killed pig at the wharf
every day to bricks and firemen...

..lots of Becks, chips and mayo and sports bars...

ah, life is beautifull!


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rooman

eddiec Wrote:
Live in Box Hill myself, but haven't encountered him as yet! (Sounds
like one of those Box Hill South people, not us refined, more
sophisticated Box Hill North types )

Well of course he's from Box Hill South - he's obviously a fiercely
independent free-thinker, not one of those straight-laced conformist
drones from the wrong side of Whitehorse Road.

I'm glad to see in using the colander he's combining the impact safety
of a bike helmet with the mind control safety of a 'tin-foil hat'
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin-foil_hat). Very wise.

And what exactly is wrong wtih toe-clips?


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treadly&me