new bikes, new bikes!

by mikka


Don't even pretend like this isn't the coolest bike you've ever seen.

Another really nice thing Yuka did on Saturday was show us some shops selling reasonable priced oritatami - folding - bicycles, so on Sunday we were able to come back, where we found these two bikes had been newly marked down on sale. We had planned on buying bikes since we found out we'd be moving here and Iain had been getting really excited about the idea of folding bikes; the biggest advantage of them is that you can take them with you on the train, which means we can go on epic, long bike rides to the next town over, or bring them with us when we travel. The disadvantage is, with their overgrown-tricycle build, we look like complete idiots on them, especially since one lanky foreigner on a silly looking bike is funny enough, but two on identical bikes is hilarious. The bright Christmas colors on my bike don't help.


Overgrown tricycles or not, though, I love being able to hop on my bike and be at work in five minutes. Even better, we can get to the beach in 20 minutes and ride up and down the bike path to our hearts content, like we did yesterday afternoon after work let out early. It was so insanely idyllic that we found ourselves just saying Oh my god, this is insane, I can't believe we live here over and over again, and stopping so that we could sit on the sea wall and gape at the ocean. Unfortunately, the memory card on my camera fried itself, so only a handful of photos survive. That's okay, though; I have a feeling we'll go back soon enough.