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Will Self on the Brompton
Posted by Simon Lewin

A link from the Brompton folding bicycle website led me to this article by Will Self in The Independent:

"It was love at first sight – the first time I saw a Brompton folding bicycle, I fell in love with it. All right, perhaps this is an exaggeration on all fronts: it wasn't the first time I'd seen one, but the first time I'd really noticed it – or her.

And it was not so much love – an emotion, I concede, that unless you're seriously perverted, only truly exists between sentient beings – as a kind of lusty covetousness; but, you can take it from me, it was a very strong feeling, and one that has only increased over the years I've either had a Brompton between my thighs, or hefted one in my arms."

Read the article in full (Portait by Andy Sewell)

Posted by Simon Lewin on October 30th, 2008