Originally Posted by Doug Fattic (Post 21735448)

I might be the only American cyclist to notice that Claudia is holding 2 sticks that I assume are tools to play a game I've come across in 2 areas of the world. The long stick is the equivalent of a bat and the short double tapered stick is like a ball that can be hit with the "bat". My mother grew up in a Danish farming community in Iowa more than 100 years ago. They played a game with a long and short stick she called "stick". When I was going to an international high school in northern India in the 60's, we played a similar game that in the Urdu language was called "gilli danda". It is described in Wikipedia. When the pointed short stick is hit while on the ground, it pops up and then can be hit again for distance. If the little stick can be bounced on the bat before being hit out, the batter gets more points. The further it is hit the more points can be earned. I'm going to assume some version of this game was played in Italy. Has anyone else ever come across some version of this game somewhere?

Originally Posted by arex (Post 21811468)

Originally Posted by hazetguy (Post 21818291)

no idea who this is. enlighten me.

Originally Posted by hazetguy (Post 21818291)

no idea who this is. enlighten me.

Originally Posted by Bianchi84 (Post 21817254)

In the OLD Laurel and Hardy movie: "March of the Wooden Soldiers" Stan seems to playing that sort of game and calls it "Pee-wee".

Originally Posted by trailangel (Post 21818126)

That's some granny ankles right there.

Originally Posted by DiabloScott (Post 21857435)

Castaways
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...e49c87e9a2.jpg

Originally Posted by Jeff Wills (Post 21858328)

RIP Dawn Wells aka Mary Anne.

Originally Posted by taylorgeo (Post 21868398)

Anyone know what brand of bike this is?

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...f2bbcb4efc.jpg

Originally Posted by thook (Post 21868415)

that looks like neil peart.

Originally Posted by SurferRosa (Post 21868509)

Neil wouldn't use stem shifters and turkey levers.

Originally Posted by thook (Post 21868527)

i just found that same photo on a rush/fan forum. i think he would.

Originally Posted by SurferRosa (Post 21868546)

Guess it was a rental.

"Riding The Golden Lion" by Neil Peart

Originally Posted by thook (Post 21868575)

i can't connect to the site right now, but a rental makes sense...

Originally Posted by SurferRosa (Post 21868630)

Excerpt:

"TO THE STREETS OF SHANGHAI" September 21

... We were taken downtown to the Sports Federation building to pick up our rental bikes, and those with their own had them ready to ride. The Sports Federation is sort of like the government's Ministry of Sports, and it was they who organized our tour, our interpreters and guides, our logistics, and our rental bikes. It was typically bureaucratic as every city and province was under the control of its own local Sports Federation, thus every time we changed locale, we changed interpreters, transportation, and bicycles. Thus I ended up using about five different bikes during the course of the tour...