Originally Posted by
Stadjer
Normal people using normal bikes for normal activities.Like avoiding the Spanish inquistion who tries to pull your bike from underneath you?
I guess marketing people's creativity has always been overstretched.
Originally Posted by
FBOATSB
That's Sir Walter Raleigh,
a proper English gentleman. Although he wound up being executed by the crown.
He is reported to have laid down his cape across a puddle so Queen Elizabeth I could walk across, as depicted in that Raleigh ad. He was
not executed by the Queen, but later after she died.
She
did send him to prison for marrying one of her ladies-in-waiting without her permission.("
No good deed goes unpunished.")