Rupert

Hopefully this isn't a repost, all I found on here was something about Barney. Here is an interesting show from the kid's show Arther about biking and safety featuring Lance Armstrong:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqbmE9HyH6s

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubOMlHgj8jg

Thought this was kind of interesting - enjoy!

Standalone 

I remember yearly assemblies and movie reels in my Pennsylvania elementary school in the early 1980's.

These days, cycling isn't on state tests, so anything like that is out!

Flying Merkel

What kind of animal is Arthur, anyway?

cudak888 

-Kurt

joejack951

I was flipping through the channels this morning (looking for the Giro) and stopped to watch a commercial (on Nick Jr. maybe?). It was for Bell helmets and it was scrolling through kids showing the right and wrong ways to wear a helmet. At the end there was a blip about the Bell retention system designed to hold the helmet properly on the kid's head. And here I thought that as long as the helmet wasn't blocking both of the kid's eyes that it was providing a benefit. Learn something new every day

DX-MAN

Car-centric, politically correct tripe. Glad my kids are too old for Arthur.

Trifling-azz writers..........

closetbiker

Yeah. You might get a raspberry. <shiver - shake>

Personally, I take issue with Lance encouraging all those kids out there to ride without their hands on the handlebars (and that riding on the sidewalk stuff has to go too)

Flying Merkel

Looks nothing like Arthur. Maybe he's some kind of midget bear-dog hybrid

cudak888 

Wouldn't you know it? The man with the greatest potential to positively influence the general public about cycling goes out and advocates riding hands-off on the sidewalk.

-Kurt

closetbiker

and Binky wouldn't have had his raspberry if he kept his hands on the bar...

should I even speculate that perhaps because Binky felt "safe" wearing his helmet, he didn't take the care he should have, and could have, taken when he took his hands off the bar? That this is a possible example of "risk compensation" in action?

electrik

Bike lanes??

JRA

I've never seen either of the Lance Armstrong episodes but I've seen enough Arthur to know that it can be bizarre. My memory of the details is vague but I recall one scene in which Arthur and (I think) Buster rode to school and, rather than stop, get off the bike and put it in the bike rack, one of them (not sure which one) crashed right into the bike rack. The other one said something like, "Hey, you know that's not how you're supposed do that." The one who had the wreck said something like, "I'm OK. it's a good thing I was wearing my helmet." It was very funny.

No enforcer of laws against sidewalk riding can beat Barney Fife of The Andy Griffith Show, a series which contains several bicycling safety messages (wearing a helmet was never mentioned). Aside from the strong anti-sidewalk riding stance taken, the hazards of unsafe riding were demonstrated by the Brit Malcolm Meriwether in his infamous bike trips through Mayberry. He once bragged to Andy that he was no longer riding on the left side of the road, although he admitted that he wasn't exactly riding on the right just yet. "Half way there," he said.

In one episode Barney yells at a bicyclist, "Hey, get that vehicle off of the road! Can't you see there's a parade coming through." That might suggest that Barney was a believer in vehicular cycling although in one episode we see him riding on the wrong side of the street. It's very confusing.

sggoodri

Shows from the 1970s showed a lot of "normalized" bicycling. The beginning theme of Good Times showed a kid riding in a normal travel lane in urban traffic, looking for traffic at an intersection before turning right. And the only dangerous thing Jan Brady ever did on her bike in traffic was ride without her glasses.