Day 032/23. A rare visitor.

A rare visitor to the museum today. A gentleman arrived on his Bickerton bike. He found it in a skip in Putney about 6 years ago, restored it, and uses it every day. It's a legendary bicycle and the forerunner to the Brompton folding bike. Its probably more than 40 years old.
The Bickerton, also called the Bickerton Portable, was a portable aluminium folding bicycle designed by Harry Bickerton and manufactured in the UK and Australia between 1971 and 1989. Bickerton, an accomplished engineer, suffered a three year driving ban in 1970 following a car crash, and invented the bike for himself, to be carried onto public transport or stored in the trunk of a car as small as an Austin Mini.