Trends in New York City tend to foretell trends in London, whose fashions in turn set the pace for smaller British cities. After a summer in the Apple, I can therefore provide British urbanites with a glimpse of their future.
I get around on what I newly perceive as a dumpy, sluggish pushbike.

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