Wooden bicycle
Scene 41: Hitchhiker's Guide to Scandinavia: Streckers Bar: Hans Lederflynt is chatting with the Somali cook Ghedi.Ghedi: Herring again?
Hans: I like herring.
Ghedi: Where you been today?
Hans: Sweden for free.
Ghedi: Cheapskate. You packed a picnic and took the train to Malmo and went to all the free places.
Hans: Over the 8 kilometer Oresund Link. Beautiful technology. Actually, I went to look at a bicycle. A wooden one with a spruce frame.
Ghedi: You want to go back and live in the 19th century? Sounds heavy and fragile. A bicycle built of broomsticks? Make mine metal anyday.
Hans: Or carbon fiber. Looked nice but I passed. Inappropriate technology. Sometimes you overstate the craft too much and the technology goes weak at the knees. An Oresund bridge built of wood? 50 meters above the water? Creaky and scary!
posted by Barry Natusch @ 5:55 PM
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3 Comments:
What an awesome pic of the bridge! Did you take it?
Bit difficult to take a picture like that sitting on the train. And if you look closely there is a bit missing at the end, it was still under construction, so had the train crossed the bridge at this time, there would have been a bit of downhill to contend with. I can claim to have taken the wooden bicycle picture and the ones going up on today's post (Sept 14).
Ah, so. I assumed the crane on top of the bridge was merely ornamental. :oD
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