I Love Lucy
 

Recently I caught an episode of I Love Lucy where the gang went on a European bike trip. Seems that Lucy was having trouble crossing the Italian/French border on the way to Nice. Something about a misplaced passport.

Anyway, typical Lucy hi-jinks occur and she tries to mingle in with a bike race to sneak across the border. With the non-HD quality pics it is hard to tell but appears it that, except for Fred and Ethyl on a tandem, everyone was riding 3 speed Schwinns....even the racers.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_F...0/P1010063.JPG

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_F...0/P1010064.JPG

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_F...0/P1010065.JPG

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_F...0/P1010066.JPG

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_F...0/P1010067.JPG

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_F...0/P1010068.JPG

Great!
Racing with fenders! Those continentals, how practical.

I never knew French racers were so big into Schwinns. . . Seems every time I turn to this forum I learn something new - but it always begs the next question:

Did the Schwinn "Continental" acquire its name from the French, or the other way around?

David, my thought exactly! Looks like they flipped the bars to get the hands lower to look more racy.

...or 3-speed IGH's either. Always thought that was a Brit thing.

SP
Bend, OR

Training bikes. Sort of like a medicine ball, except much, much heavier.

Might even be the same bike in each of the three pics.

I love Lucy she is a real HOOT!!! my favorite is the pilot show/movie, 'The Long trailer'
(no pun intended)

Well since you are talking about racing bikes and handlebars, look at the bars, fenders and racks on 2 of these racing/training bikes at around the :50 mark. One of them won the Giro De Italia and placed 3rd in the TDF. Not to mention 3 world TTT championships. Maybe they are on to something!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YAayVor2c8

That's a classic episode.

Somebody got some 'splainin' to do!

Original air date: April 23, 1956

Enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63S9I...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p62N...eature=related

Wow...I'm impressed.

Thanks for those links. I enjoyed watching that. It took me back to childhood when I'd watch I Love Lucy (in reruns) when I got home from school.

Neal

Similar case here; I practically grew up watching re-runs of it on Nick @ Night.

-Kurt

Awesome! Thanks for a link as I had no idea those shows were out there.

Ah, Kurt dates himself...26 yo or so?

I watched them all as a kid in the early sixties.

Did you know the credits that roll on the reruns are not the original ones? The original intro and credits were heavily infiltrated by their sponsor, Phillip Morris:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcaibMaZAuk

Just makes you want to run out and grab a carton, doesn't it?

Close, but no cigar. Sure is fun to have a bunch of "uncut and restored" VHS recordings of 'em though.

Indeed. Generic syndicated ILL credits lifted from the 1952 season. TV Land ran the episodes with modified variants of the original opening sequences; a nice touch, but they were already credit crunching by then.

-Kury

I'm guessing the Cuda is 22 y/o.

This Cuda?

http://www.jaysmarine.com/traxxas_cuda_2.jpg

http://www.jaysmarine.com/traxxas_cuda_3.jpg

;)

(Come to think of it, this qualifies as a thread hijack, doesn't it?)

-Kurt

It's my thread so hi-jack away. BTW, I'd bet that Dan Gurney would have liked that AAR Cuda.