Baiskeli is Swahili for bicycle; the rest you will pick up as we go along.
Where I come from, cyclists have very few rights...scrap that...cyclists have absolutely no rights. Shouts of 'jinga wewe toa mkebe barabarani' (idiot, get that piece of junk of the road) rent the air as the struggle for road supremacy between cyclists and motorists peaks right around rush hour. Needless to say, the motorists always win primarily because cyclists may as well be a non-entity on Kenyan roads, what with no designated bike paths, cycling is really at your own risk.
Be that as it may, there are still very many cyclists riding to their various destinations in Nairobi; surprisingly, most of them ride a black called a black mamba christened Blackie. This is typically a bike that is mainly used by casual workers as it is really really cheap...and in some areas, the carrier region is modified with a really comfortable seat and colours of all sorts and it becomes a taxi commonly known as a boda boda...
Flash-forward to Delft, where everyone rides a bike....and the most typical is the Dutch city bike which bears a startling resemblance to the blackie....so imagine my shock and surprise when on landing in first world central, I find a blackie and get this, its the coolest bike to have around and seeing as I tend to be a cool one in general terms and everyone here rides a blackie, I now own a blackie.
Isn't irony just the bomb?
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