12 February 2009
Wearing Your Heart on Your Handlebar
A white rosary front and center.
Bikers also find ways to display their
religious paraphernalia
on their rather stark vehicles.
Rosary from a handlebar, in knots-as-mysteries style.
A scapular on the other side.
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