Your roaming reporter visits Yogyakarta and finds, in the Jalan Malioboro ("Marlborough Street" in Indonesian spelling), the vast number of bikes that all Asian visitors are familiar with...
...but to his surprise, in a side street, there's a collector's shop - Marcopolo Antique...
...with some very familiar makes listed, including: Batavus, Humber, Reliegh (= Raleigh), Stokvis, Sunbeam, Pon, Hercules, BSA, Atlas, Vasting (= Vesting), Griffon, Rudge. Also note the Cyclemaster on the sign.
Inside Marcopolo Antique (who even has a website www.sepedatua.com ), we find a Berini M13 ("egg"), two 1950s' Mobylettes, etc, and some old parts (who needs a Vertex piston for a Berini? - "not for sale").
Cheap fuel prices and new bikes on the move (don't bother to crate them for transit) are noted - to create transport for millions ... thanks to the weather!
Published March 2011
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