A Bike for Beate...?

Rather a good week for stories about 'Boris bikes' — the ones belonging to London's successful bicycle hire scheme.
Not only has someone hired one, taken it to France, cycled up Mt Ventoux (perhaps the most famous climb in the Tour de France), driven back and returned it 20 seconds within the 24-hour time limit, but one appears to have turned up in The Gambia — to the puzzlement of the British news media (see The Independent).
Of course, it's no surprise to our Sand to Sea organisation. Beate Kampmann has told us that she's been training on a Boris back in London. Clearly she's got so attached to it that she has secretly imported one in preparation for the Great Event. It might turn out to be rather expensive when she returns it, however....

That's not Beate, is it? Picture via: Twitter/@benphillips76.