I collected a new spare cycle from a bike shop yesterday. Mainly it will be my son riding it when he's over from Nottingham. We can then go for some all-day touring together. I've a Dawes Super Galaxy at home – great but pricey to have a clone so I ordered its younger sister, a Dawes Vantage. The man in the bike shop said, "I can swap the default saddle for a Brooks quite cheaply."
I said, "No thanks, the Brooks is made of leather and I'm a veggie."
"No problem," he said, "but what about other stuff on the bike that is made from animals?"
"There isn't anything," I said, wondering if maybe there was some lanolin in a lubricant.
"Ah," he said, pointing at the handlebars. "The tape."
"But... but they're cork."
"Yes," he said, with a smile showing he'd scored.
I waited a minute to see if the penny would drop by itself, but when it didn't I had to say, "Cork is tree."
Geoff
http://geoffnelder.com
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