Friday

Fascinated with Two Wheel

The best thing about Paris so far is the public bikes they have everywhere. I'm going to have to check one of these out tomorrow to scoot around for a while. This city has a fascination with the two
wheels. Man do they love their bikes and scooters and bicycles.
There's parking everywhere for scooters. It's great I love it. Business people formally dressed and middle aged people on dates with their spouse and kids ripping around on scooters - everyone is on two wheels. I guess you just check out a bicycle with a credit card and return it anywhere when you're at the end of your ride. This guy is checking his blackberry at a traffic light, just bicycling around. It's really a great traffic limiting solution and of course unlike London which for some strange reason was very light on sportbikes there's no shortage of Ducatis or MV Agustas or Japanese sportbikes here. Vespas and Piaggio's rule the road, there's certain small roads that only permit two-wheel traffic even. If only I spoke French it could be a big incentive to move here!