{"id":2561,"date":"2013-12-17T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?2561"},"modified":"2013-12-17T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T16:00:27","slug":"boris-bike-spotted-in-the-gambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/boris-bike-spotted-in-the-gambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Bike spotted in The Gambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The remarkable sight of a Boris Bike in The Gambia has been posted on Twitter &ndash; much to the amusement of thousands of users.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor London Boris Johnson is famous for rolling out his public bike scheme in the UK capital and the city is now stocked with a supply of his iconic two-wheeled vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>But the last place one would expect to see one is in the west African country, thousands of miles from London.<\/p>\n<p>The image shows a Boris Bike being ridden on a track that runs past a building, as two children watch on.<\/p>\n<p>It has raised a number of theories on how it might have reached The Gambia, while some Twitter users chose to focus on how its owner might go about returning it to London.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Good luck finding a docking station,&quot; Metro quoted @iansanders as saying and Tom Edwards mused: &quot;Some overcharge on that bad boy.&quot;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801673506-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=801673506\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone seems to have taken a wrong turn with a Boris Bike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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