These delightful, anachronistic blue-green signs are virtually unnoticeable as one whizzes, or indeed wheezes, along the boardwalk.
I prefer my ligatures bold, capitalized, and decked out in bell bottoms (which dutifully snag in your cogs).
Avant Garde cyclists
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