I don't know what she was sitting on in that film, but it must have been good to make her pull those faces.)Īnyway, Adrian Ripburger, the vice president of Corley Motors, has never been on a motorbike in his life, thanks to a debilitating inner ear condition. An ex-biker dude himself, he still has set ideas about what a bike consists of and how it should look, and still gets excited when he sees fast bikes (although not as excited as Marianne Faithful got in Girl On A Motorbike. Malcolm Corley, the founder and chief executive of Corley Motors, is the reason that their bikes still look like bikes, and not like big metal hovering slugs. one company, the heroic Corley Motors, still makes good, old-fashioned, stonking great motorbikes with big, fat wheels, complete with spokes and tyres and all that old-fashioned nonsense. (In fact, if you hit a lollipop man with one of these things, you would come away with a new bonnet ornament of an interestingly pink and floppy design.) Did I say all vehicles? Make that almost all vehicles. Designers have done away with those round, confounded nuisances that judder so badly when you hit a lollipop man, and all road-going vehicles now hover impressively a good couple of feet above the ground. Lollipop menīut it's in the area of private transportation that things have altered most noticeably. The good news is that Noel Edmonds is dead. Many things that nowadays we take for granted are radically different - the bad news is that the quality of television has deteriorated to the point that Bay-watch is looked on as hard-hitting social realism.

That's not to say that people's lives are the same as they are today. Suits while robots do the washing up or allow you to have sex with them (while they're doing the washing up).

People have not yet taken to walking about in Bacofoil

In other words, it's the future, but not as you imagined it at the age of ten.

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