Bike Porn

This is rich (excerpts from an article in this past weekend's Observer):

"A man has been placed on the sex offenders' register for pleasuring himself with a bicycle....Clearly, Robert Stewart, 51, is unconventional; he might even be sufficiently strange to have held down a place in the Jackson 5. But a criminal? He was in his room - in a hostel in Ayr - all pumped up when two cleaners burst in. He was prosecuted and has pleaded guilty to 'disorderly conduct'. But since when was sex orderly? Why was he placed on the sex offenders' register - was the bicycle offended? Did Stewart insist on going off-road when the bicycle onfly fancied a gentle spot of handle-bar-holding in first gear?

"The BBC website shows us, by way of illustration, a bicycle; one can only trust it is not the actual bicycle, as it is an offense to show victims of sex crimes. I mean, first the trauma off the attack, now its anonymity blown.

"Anyway two things strike me about this suspiciously racy-looking bicycle. First, it is not a mountain bike, so perhaps Stewart could have bought it as a mounting bike. SEcond, it is a male bicycle, so either this is a fit-up or our friend is a homosexual pedalophile. But again, I pose the question: is that a crime? Of the recent spate of sexual assaults, thsi seems one of the less harmful.

"Politics is meant to be kept out of the bedroom, so why can't one keep bicycles in the bedroom?"

Well, i for one am shocked. I'm posting a long withheld photo of my trusty delivery bicycle in the hopes that should anyone ever see anyone abusing it they'll let me know. Anyway, i've been talking about posting a photo of it for ages.

Here's a picture of me with my bike in sunnier, warmer days. At the moment it's wet and wet and grey. Daylight has moved on by 4:30 if not earlier. Our plants are having trouble coping.