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Old 12-15-10 | 05:13 AM
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Rowan
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A few clues to vagrants who have bicycles:

1. They rarely ride, but push their bike.

2. Over the handlebars are an assortment of plastic bags with their "worldly possessions", not groceries, but often things they have picked up from others' rubbish.

3. Their hair will be long and dank, unkempt.

4. Their shoes, if they have them, will be really ratty.

5. Their clothes will be civvies, dirty, and likely stained with and smelling like urine.

6. If they do ride their bike, you will be able to hear it from a mile off because whatever lube on the chain disappeared years ago.

7. The bike itself will likely be old, of the Walmart style and grubby.

If you tour like that, then maybe you need to pick up your act for the sake of the image of touring cyclists everywhere.

By the way, I know this has been discussed ad infinitum here before, but anyone who is on a long tour and has rented or sold their normal abode is in fact homeless. I am sure nancy-sv doesn't regard herself and her family as vagrants, even though for the duration of their epic tour they re effectivelly homeless.
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