Obama rides bikes...[Rank your Aussie Pollie's MTB style]

Pinch flat news reports: The biking over-under on Barack Obama

Sen. Barack Obama went for a bike ride yesterday, and a number of PFN operatives asked us to comment. We'll go with the tried-and-true plus/minus system that works so well in professional hockey:

1. Bike helmet: +1
2. Trek bike: 0
3. Seat too low/frame too small: -1
4. Underinflated tires: -1
5. Adams trail-a-bike with superlame seatpost coupling. -2
6. Implicit pro-bike advocacy and all that implies: +2
7. Riding a rigid hardtail in granny gear: +1
8. Schrader valves (Blue Collar, yo!) : +1
9. Pulling an entire nation's head out of its collective ass: +9

Score: A perfect 10

Let's try the same on our Aussie pollies...what's your vote? (add more pictures/comments)

Tony Abbott on the way to see "SEASONS" at the Dendy...
[rim brakes -1, real sweat +2, flat bar +1, worried look at the unsafe intersection ahead -2]

...hanging with the latté crowd on Mona Vale Road...[-5]

On her bike … Greens Senator Kerry Nettle on her way to work.
[well-worn authentic riding gear +2, touring bags +1]

She's in charge of the "Vision for Sydney as a bike friendy city" (lobbied by Oxford street?)
[Is that really her bike (-4)? The bars seem far too wide for her shoulders..?]

Bikes? For me? It'll ruin my hairstyle and soften my tough rockstar image....
[-5]

New Job: This man's deep affinity with the topic and close proximity to the nation's decision makers earned him a new job as financial controller ....at the next SCO#T 24 hrs in Canberra...(note: the SCO#T's entry costs have already gone up) [-10]