Ah yes, but ...

Rainy season has come and gone and I, like most other people in Tokyo, am suffering what the Japanese call 'natsu-bate' - summer weariness. It's 33-35 degrees, humid and hot. At night it still rests around 27 degrees, hotter than the daytime in England. However, one must get outside occasionally to the park:



Yes, thank you, that's all very well, but has does one actually get ON the bike? It appears that Japanese need instructions for everything.