Lewis

[bunn]

I am watching an episode of 'Lewis' in which a very smarmy young fantasy author (who may or may not have dunnit) is attempting to walk in the shoes of the Inklings.  It's all about fantasy worlds.  I like it!

Amused though to find that I still have an automatic reaction to seeing piles of Oxford bicycles on bike-stands,which is to immediately lose focus on the plot and peer hopefully at them all.  I am still, it seems,  looking for the late lamented Geraldine, my very old heavy black bike which was stolen in Oxford and that I never got back again.   I suppose she may still be out there somewhere, but one thing is for sure, if I DID spot her in an episode of 'Lewis' it isn't going to help me get her back now.  Also, the thought of trying to ride her across the Cornish hills makes my bum ache. 

Comments

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

I don't wish to upset you about Geraldine but if stolen it seems most likely by a twit rather than the 'pro' students' bikes thief based on your description. Na'Lon had her Hercules 'nicked' (sort of in) '95 as some berks thought it a jolly jape to take a locked bike (but not locked to anything) from outside the Woodstock Rd end house of St Huges and leave it 20 yds down the road when they realised how heavy it was. So Geraldine may either have ended up dumped in an alley or in a river. In which case if found by the police and unclaimed will have been auctioned off at some later point. So she may well have been turned into whatever scrap metal ends up as.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I bought the bike that succeeded Geraldine from the Police Unclaimed Bike shop. Actually, I think I may even have bought Geraldine there too. ISTR it was by far the cheapest place to buy a bike in Oxford.

She definitely wasn't handed in to the police while I was still in Oxford, cos I used to go and check from time to time, but she may well have gone in the river, given that I never spotted her again. I would guess she was stolen by someone who just wanted a ride home, or someone who was just pissed. Given her weight and only having one gear, I can't see her being stolen by anyone hoping to make much of a profit selling her!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

... actually, thinking about it, the fact that she looked like she was made in about 1925 out of girders may well mean that when she was stolen from me, it was not the first time.

Maybe some aging graduate discovered her in a heap of bikes, identified her as their lost bike from 1987 or 1963, and made off with her righteously. :-D

My next bike was much lighter and had gears, so I can't really complain too much.