Kerry's bike ride and visit to a shop to get it fixed

[karynnj]

(Nice stories to balance the heaviness of Netanyahu winning and the Republicans being evil.)

Link to video of Kerry riding the bike:
http://globalnews.ca/video/1885615/john-kerry-takes-bike-ride-in-switzerland

Story on the bike getting fixed with some very nice comments:

As an intimidating entourage of security staffers and support vehicles trailed him, the secretary suffered a minor breakdown. Soon, Lionel Schumann, proprietor of Sam’s Bikes, was startled to look up and see the 6-foot-3-inch American diplomat, sheathed in black spandex, asking for help with a derailleur.

Kerry, a connoisseur of sports gear of all kinds, “behaved just like a normal client,” Schumann gushed to the local paper 24 Heures.

Sadly, Kerry didn’t have a lot of time to “talk bikes,” Schumann said. But “he speaks really good French and is super nice,” the proprietor reported.
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Kerry himself seemed in good shape, he added, venturing that the diplomat’s biking form was “not bad at all.”

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-kerry-bicycle-20150318-story.html

[mylye2222]

1. Nice story.

Here is another link.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/11479784/John-Kerrys-bike-breaks-down-at-Iran-nuclear-talks.html

nice that , as a decent man he is, Kerry even insisted to pay the repair...

[MBS]

2. thanks to both you and karynnj for these stories! n/t