On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:09:51 +0100, Abigail Brady
wrote:
How come nobody ever pretends to be an electric train?

I do!

Cycling along those lines of narrow gratings you see in car parks etc: the
tyres over the ribs make a hum or whine, and the gratings clacking up and
down are the rail joints.

The challenge is staying on a 4" wide grating for its whole length!

Colin McKenzie

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