Bicycles that tell stories paraded from Cais dos Bacalhoeiros
A benign competition erupts between Filipe Rodrigues and Fernando Rodrigues to determine who owns the oldest bicycle. They compare the original registration documents, old documents already showing signs of use: yellowed, with corroded corners and worn letters. Filipe wins, but only just. His New Star is from 1945—so old that, when it was registered, World War II was still raging. Fernando's Rudge is only five years younger. Fernando, a 57-year-old construction worker, displays the paperwork proudly, as if it were a valuable relic. "It's booklet number 4151," he says. One day, about a year ago, he was called to do some construction work at a neighbor's house and came across the bicycle abandoned in the yard. "He offered me the bike, and I gave him a discount on the work," he says.
A benign competition erupts between Filipe Rodrigues and Fernando Rodrigues to determine who owns the oldest bicycle. They compare the original registration documents, old documents already showing signs of use: yellowed, with corroded corners and worn letters. Filipe wins, but only just. His New Star is from 1945—so old that, when it was registered, World War II was still raging. Fernando's Rudge is only five years younger. Fernando, a 57-year-old construction worker, displays the paperwork proudly, as if it were a valuable relic. "It's booklet number 4151," he says. One day, about a year ago, he was called to do some construction work at a neighbor's house and came across the bicycle abandoned in the yard. "He offered me the bike, and I gave him a discount on the work," he says.
A benign competition erupts between Filipe Rodrigues and Fernando Rodrigues to determine who owns the oldest bicycle. They compare the original registration documents, old documents already showing signs of use: yellowed, with corroded corners and worn letters. Filipe wins, but only just. His New Star is from 1945—so old that, when it was registered, World War II was still raging. Fernando's Rudge is only five years younger. Fernando, a 57-year-old construction worker, displays the paperwork proudly, as if it were a valuable relic. "It's booklet number 4151," he says. One day, about a year ago, he was called to do some construction work at a neighbor's house and came across the bicycle abandoned in the yard. "He offered me the bike, and I gave him a discount on the work," he says.
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