This Space for Rent

Now that’s something you don’t see every day!

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A Raleigh Tourist(?) sits in the Llewellyn schoolyard. There’s nothing special about it except that it has rod brakes instead of the normal Bowden cabled brakes that you find on about 98% of the (brake-equipped) bicycles in the United States.

The CBC says “Hi! Enjoy the exquisite image quality on this fine photograph!”