Originally Posted by
Longfemur
Oh boy. ... They were for casual riding with a handlebar bag from village to village by a rider smoking a pipe, without any athletic pretensions whatsoever....
I like the picture, but it lacks verisimilitude. It is actually very difficult to smoke a pipe without at least one free hand. You have to hold it in one hand while tamping it down with the other, or you'll be stopping to relight it every couple hundred yards....