Trend Watch: Sandwich Board Bikes
Last year I bought an old one-speed Rifton cargo trike, partly under the delusion that it could one day be used to showcase inventory outside the neighborhood newsstand/used book store that I dream of owning in my retirement years -- assuming periodicals, books and retirement still exist (see: delusion).
By
Brad Aaron
11:12 AM EDT on August 26, 2011
Last year I bought an old one-speed Rifton cargo trike, partly under the delusion that it could one day be used to showcase inventory outside the neighborhood newsstand/used book store that I dream of owning in my retirement years — assuming periodicals, books and retirement still exist (see: delusion).
Clarence Eckerson sends along these shots from city bike shops that beat me to it by a few decades. Good stuff, Clarence.
Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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