A young (19 years old) Lauren Bacall relaxes on a bicycle, outside a sound stage, during the filiming of her first movie, To Have and Have Not (1944).
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WOW! :thumb:

"Nothing compares to getting your heart rate up to 170-something, riding hard for an hour-twenty, getting off and not hurting, as opposed to 24 minutes of running, at the end of which I hurt. When you ride a bike, and you get your heart rate up, and you’re out, after 30 or 40 minutes, your mind tends to expand; it tends to relax."
President George W. Bush

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Songstress Martha Tilton, who had thirty Top 20 hit records between 1937 and 1947, both as a vocalist for Benny Goodman and as a solo artist.

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Chloe Moretz

Looks like shes a little terrified from here. :foo:

Annie Londonderry, The first woman to cycle around the world.
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...02f4f8915d.png
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-...ry-first-woman

Ah, a classic American frame ;)

There's a lot of consternation surrounding that claim. ;)

Merziac, Yes, I Know cycling outfit not withstanding, the reason for posting the link.:innocent:
Dagnabbit, I haven't heard the use of that noun for a while! :D
Best, Ben

Yep, seems like its mostly true but we'll probably never know for sure.

I was aware of the tale but we saw a one woman show, sort of stand up comedy based on it a few years back that was very entertaining and a lot of fun.

It spurred me to do a bit of a deep dive at the time. ;)

I've read some of the 1890s news items on her trip. Reportedly, she booked steamship passage from Marseilles, France to Yokohama, Japan. Her celebrity got her a 50% deduction in the price of her ticket. Basically, she skipped most of Europe and Asia, with limited cycling at the stopover ports en route. The only place she appears to have performed any significant cycling was in the USA.

Desi and Lucy
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Lana Turner. 'Nuff said!
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The European tour. There was also another bike where they were boarding a ship. Her dress got caught in the chainring and chaos ensued.

Boy O Boy, no chit! :love:

A "The hand" Rudge FTW. ;)

They really knew how to make 'em, back then.

Henry Fonda on the set of 1943's The Ox-Bow Incident.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c6/6d/47/c...a0b7aabb31.jpg

Great movie!

Henry's bike looks like it has a rear derailleur.
Pretty unusual for 1943, wasn't it?

The film and subject photo are actually sligthly older, being from 1942. The film may have been released in 1943 but was shot at last a year earlier, as the credits show a 1942 copyright..

Yes, that is a derailleur. While it was unusal to see a derailleur equipped bicycle in the USA during this era, they were not unknown. Given the era and North Road handlebars, the bicycle is most likley of British ancestry and the derailleur is probably a Cyclo.

Before Kurt Vonnegut was a household name, he wrote this book from inside his Saab dealership instead of selling cars.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...onnegut%29.jpg

What this has to do with bikes, I don't know.

Nice DUI bars.


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Jason Schwartzman and cast of David O Russell's I Heart Huckabees.

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Great movie!

Ben Stiller and Adam Driver in While We're Young.


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Great movie? Really good movie, anyway.

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
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Roy and Trigger (from 1946 Schwinn cat.)
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And the guy who plays a guitar named Trigger
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