I was down in Portland, OR over the weekend and spent most of it happily soaking in the bike culture. I actually posted this on Flickr ages ago, but after seeing and hearing bicycles only half-ironically being referred to as "whips" again over the weekend, I thought this needed a repost. This was parked in front of a grocery store somewhere in western Japan and when I saw it, I thought that this must be the answer for the problem used as an intellectual wooden dummy since ancient times -->
If CAR:WHIP then BIKE:______?
