White Bike of Amsterdam

[Jeffrey Meikle]

David sez...

>A few months back, National Geographic Magazine did an article on the use
>of bicylces in European cities...I think the article focused on Venice,
>but I am not sure.  Nonetheless, part of the article dealt with the idea
>that seemingly anyone in the city picked up anyone's bike, used it, and
>returned it to where he/she found it...or dumped it into one of the
>canals...

A-and not wanting to read ahead, I can't check the details, but isn't there
a springtime scene with that there Katje ridin' along a canal on a bicycle
somewhere in that recently liberated Holland...  Bet that was Byron the
Bike, startin' off on a long roll into history as the first beat-up set of
wheels given a spanking clean coat of white paint by those Dutch
activist-hippie Provos of the '60s...a-and that sloppy balding mumbling
walrus-moustached American expat dude gave it a few swipes of paint for
good measure (good karma indeed)...

Jeff