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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Closeted cyclists hiding in skyscrapers

This is the time of year where magazine editors, otherwise engaged with more important matters, sneak bikes onto their covers. Pity you can't see last week's New Yorker cover better-- that tiny figure is a chef on a bike in a fantastically vacated Manhattan. The Economist's cover, on the other hand, is a cheap overextended metaphor... an artless illustration, really.

Which reminds us of our favorite recent cycling cover that was actually wrong: Bruce McCall's July 2005 New Yorker cover showed a bike messenger headed directly for the TDF peloton--the only problem being that his drivetrain was painted on the wrong side of his bike. Then again, the New Yorker's legendary factchecking department may have discovered at least one person in the world who rides left-side drive.

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