Oh! Here’s a wonderful shot from Alexandre Foulon‘s flickr stream titled “France 2008 – Like a bobo in Lyon…” I’m not exactly sure what a Bobo is but I’m pretty sure that’s an empty bottle of Saint James gin he’s using as an oil catch. Those little Piaggio trucks are so adorable! Changing the oil is like changing a diaper… just roll it over and get yer hands dirty.
21. July 2010 at 10:16 pm
Bobo (noun): bourgeois + Bohemian. A member of a social class of well-to-do professionals who espouse bohemian values and lead bourgeois lives (Merriam-Webster Online dictionary)
from the Online Slang Dictionary:
“…So David Brooks contends in his witty book Bobos in Paradise – “Bobos” being a term of Brooks’s coinage to describe this “new upper class”, which has created a “balance of bourgeois and bohemian” by “living amidst commerce” while “admir(ing) art and intellect”, growing “affluent” while remaining “opposed to materialism”, and whose members spend “their lives selling yet worr(ying) about selling out”. Who exactly are these people? In the realm of material consumption, Bobos reconcile bourgeois and bohemian by cultivating “ever finer tastes about ever more simple things”, preferring to “buy the same items as the proletariat – it’s just that (they) buy rarified versions of these items that members of the working class would consider preposterous.”
— “Toaster chic”, Andrew Stark, 09 June 2000
p.s. I enjoy your blog!
21. July 2010 at 10:17 pm
Lemme see, hmmmm, counter steering, ahh, “push left to turn left” yeah, wait, this is a three wheeler! No! No… NO AHHHHHHRRRRRGGGG!
22. July 2010 at 9:06 am
That’s how I work on all my bikes – push it over, beat it with a hammer, set it back up and put Sea Foam in the tank. Good as new!