I’m Busby the Bakfiets, Rachel’s bicycle. It was very cold last night and everything froze, including me:
My mistress tried to ride me this morning but couldn’t. First she tried to open the cover to let the two wriggly creatures inside but the cover was frozen shut. Eventually she got it open but the lock was frozen so she had to pour hot water on it. Then finally she got me moving but discovered my brakes were frozen too so she left me all alone and walked to school instead. I was a bit upset about this. It would have been great fun tearing down the hill with a heavy load and no brakes: the wind in my spokes, oh yeah. Rachel cycles like a grandma: incredibly slowly. Once a jogger even ran past us! How embarrassing is that!!! I may be a cargo bike but I can go fast. I’m not being used to my full potential.
I’m a little bit famous here in Aberdeen. Everyone stares at me in admiration – Rachel thinks they’re looking at her but they’re really looking at me. Don’t tell Rachel this as she might get upset. Even other bicycles are impressed and there are some hot wheels in Aberdeen. The wriggly creatures are a pain – sometimes they fight when I’m moving – but they also make me look like a family bike and chick bikes dig that.

17 responses to “A guest post from Busby the bike”
haha Poor Busby 🙂 Nice to hear Your side of the story 🙂
Maybe his next owner will tear around town without using brakes 🙂
haha I don’t know how to break this to Busby – but he isn’t a racing bike 🙂
What a cool post!
I’ll let Busby know you said so 🙂
Who wrote the post on behalf of Busby – Ben?
Busby wrote it.
How cute. 🙂 Definitely two sides to the story.
Yes, that is so true. There are always two sides.
I don’t know why Busby didn’t complain about being left out in the freezing cold. Poor lad! 😦
He likes the snow and the ice. It’s refreshing 🙂
Well I’m glad the bikes are sentient. Perhaps there is hope for planet after all. 🙂
Bicycles have feelings too 🙂
The bicycles have spoke. 🙂
Haha 🙂
Loved your guest post Busby – hope to see you again soon, when you’ve thawed out a little 🙂
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