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Keith Kingbay & Mayor Richard Daley celebrating Chicago's first bike lane/route back in the days when Schwinn was America's bicycle:
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Originally Posted by jolly_codger
(Post 23487312)
Keith Kingbay & Mayor Richard Daley celebrating Chicago's first bike lane/route back in the days when Schwinn was America's bicycle:
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Originally Posted by jolly_codger
(Post 23487312)
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Born March 30
Eric Clapton (with Antonio Columbo) https://dqh479dn9vg99.cloudfront.net...li-755x970.jpg |
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Born March 30
Richard Sherman (with Rob Gronkowski) https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...54377d190d.jpg |
Originally Posted by Rocket-Sauce
(Post 23487902)
Born March 30
Eric Clapton (with Antonio Columbo) https://dqh479dn9vg99.cloudfront.net...li-755x970.jpg Seems he was a bike enthusiast and maybe collector, if not an avid cyclist. Would be great to find a photo of him riding. |
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Originally Posted by Sedgemop
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Here's a Retrogrouch article on Clapton and his interest in bikes. https://bikeretrogrouch.blogspot.com...d-guitars.html
Seems he was a bike enthusiast and maybe collector, if not an avid cyclist. Would be great to find a photo of him riding.
Originally Posted by Retrogrouch
I was listening to Disraeli Gears by Cream the other day and it got me thinking about bicycles.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...aeli-gears.jpgBicycles? Really? Yep. Granted, lots of things get me thinking about bicycles, but it's probably already well known among us old bicycle enthusiasts (or maybe not) that Eric Clapton has been a huge fan of bicycles -- especially classic Cinellis -- going back to his youth. So was the band's drummer, Ginger Baker, for that matter. Their mutual love for racing bicycles, and a roadie's malapropism, led to the title of that iconic 1967 album. The story goes that Baker and Clapton were talking about bikes one time in the back of a car, and according to Baker, "Mick Turner was one of the roadies who'd been with me a long time, and he was driving along and Eric was talking about getting a racing bicycle." Apparently, Turner commented about the bike having "disraeli gears," as opposed to derailleur gears. (The actual Disraeli was a British Prime Minister during the Victorian era). "We all just fell over," said Baker. "We said that's got to be the album title." (disraeligears.co.uk) I did not know this and I've been a long time Clapton fan, THANKS. |
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Originally Posted by jolly_codger
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RIP Richard Chamberlain:
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The 1940 film, The Lady in Question, opens with Fat Boy delighted the bicycle and music store owner allowed him to trade the tandem he recently bought for a one-seater after his girl broke it off with him.
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...349faddf86.jpg Sumner Getchell was not unfamiliar with being so openly typecast. His other characters in film include, Slug, Fat Soldier, Tank, Fat Boy (again), Blimpy, Bakery Boy, Blimp, Fat Boy Tourist, Tubby, and simply, Fat. |
Originally Posted by SurferRosa
(Post 23488419)
The 1940 film, The Lady in Question, opens with Fat Boy delighted the bicycle and music store owner allowed him to trade the tandem he recently bought for a one-seater after his girl broke it off with him.
Sumner Getchell was not unfamiliar with being so openly typecast. His other characters in film include, Slug, Fat Soldier, Tank, Fat Boy (again), Blimpy, Bakery Boy, Blimp, Fat Boy Tourist, Tubby, and simply, Fat. -D.S. |
Publicity from the same movie:
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...4ff855bd1b.jpg https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...3a5d678805.jpg Brian Aherne billed first, then Hayworth. Glenn Ford is in there as well. I'd give it a 6.0, but only because Aherne owns a bike shop. |
(above) I thought that was Glenn Ford. I've actually not seen any of Hayworth's films, though read the page about her on wiki; Evidently she was a stunning dancer as well, the favorite partner of Fred Astaire.
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Ewan McGregor https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads...egor_bike1.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GM_MMGaacAAJDpA.jpg:large |
Born March 31
Christopher Walken (Do recumbents count?) https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...91412dbe55.jpg https://www.cyclechat.net/attachment...de-jpg.253239/ |
Born March 31
Shirley Jones (with the cast of The Partridge Family) https://c8.alamy.com/comp/HD6FE8/par...den-HD6FE8.jpg |
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Herb Alpert (and the Tijuana Brass Band) https://c8.alamy.com/comp/HD3G0D/the...cbs-HD3G0D.jpg |
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