Repeat after me. It's not real. :lol:

As for helmets, see the Eli Wallach photo: "Helmets? We don't need no steenkin' helmets."

Long live the King. I can't believe they put him on a 21" Pashley 3 speed. Pathetic and an inauspicious start to his reign.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...b567111bc0.jpg

He's looking quite dapper.....and it's great to see him riding without toe-clips, but he does need some help with the frames fitment. :D
Best, Ben

OK. It's not real. It's not real. It's not real.

Phew, I feel much better now. Thanks. 😁

QEII
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+1, those bicycles are Raleigh Grand Prix. While Centurion copied the Raleigh Grand Prix graphics, the bicycles are equipped with a Huret 700 front derailleur and Huret Allvit rear derailleur. Had these been Centurion, they would have used SunTour derailleurs. The Huret derailleur systems are consistent with 1970 model year Grand Prix.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...1f0ece2e95.jpg

But he is wearing a helmet. While those "hairnets" provided only rudimentary protection (and arguably not even even that), they were considered "helmets" back in the day. Then, as now, looks trumped function, and back then, wearing a hairnet helmet screamed, "bicycle racer".

I win this thread, lol. I don't do Facebook, but found this there in a search. Ginger Baker, with a bike!!! 😎😁😎
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...250a608e8a.jpg
Disraeli Gears is a real thing. 😁

Make sure he doesn't hit you!

LOL, he was a feisty one, I've heard. 😉 Meant to say, this was posted a little over a year ago, by one Nettie Baker, presumably a daughter (?) or some other relative. Thanks, Nettie. 🙂

Compliments on finding a pic of Ginger A)...with a bike and B) ...not strung out on junk.
I remember there's a shot in 'Farewell Cream' where the camera pans quickly to Ginger and he literally flinches and shrinks trying to avoid it. Really high but what a drummer.

How about pseudo celebrities from British reality TV? Love Island's Elma Pazar and Georgia Steel.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...eb1e6ed5eb.jpg

You could probably get away with posting that anywhere you like. 😉

FYI, she's back on the market.

How about a magazine cover ( from Pinterest, lol) with Eric Clapton, with a bike? 😎😁😎

I think a pic of Jack Bruce with a bike will be close to impossible, but I haven't given up on it yet. I'm doin' alright, so far. 😉

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...6f80b821f1.jpg

How about JACKson Browne and BRUCE Springsteen
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...4f53f8e42b.jpg
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...cc5944ebf3.jpg

Good thinking! 👍 Sometimes the best you can do, is improvise. 😁

I'm gonna add a pic of Jack improvising, and a bonus pic of Ginger's drums, from their first gig, in 1966. I lost track of the photo credits, hopefully I don't get sued. 🙄😉
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...0e2972d55b.jpg
Ha, I switched things around there. Sorry, Bruce. 😁😉

Back in the day that's all that was available, and a helmet of some sort was required for amateur races. We didn't wear them to show off, we wore them because they were required or we thought they might work. Here's a nifty article on the evolution of the modern bicycle helmet. https://streets.mn/2017/11/08/a-hist...-in-minnesota/

My wife started making me wear a hardshell when we were expecting. That was around 1993. Now I need no convincing.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...5f72e1b2e2.png
missed it by that much :innocent:

That's got to be somewhere in London :)

Some kind soul should get them better bikes, those Santander bikes weight about 23kg (50 lb), they have got gel saddles though so they won't need padded shorts.

On the upside, seems they are now made by Pashley so they're almost C&V
https://rosslydall.wordpress.com/201...n-the-old-one/

Jay and Silent Bob

http://viewaskew.com/profilesauction.../etbike1sm.jpg

http://viewaskew.com/profilesauction.../etbike2sm.jpg

In my area, during the early 1970s bicycle boom, we had poseurs with expensive bicycles, who wore all the race kit (including leather hairnet helmets) but didn't race and just used to hang around the main drag, trying to impress people. Some of the local racers would wear helmets on trainiing rides, myself included.

While the Bell Biker may have popularized hard shell helmets, it wasn't the first hard shell designed specifically for bicycle use. By the time of 20 Shades of Pink, there were about a handful of different hard shell helmets that were available. By the time that I converted to a hard shell helmet in the early 1980s, I was wearing a helmet for all my cycling.

There's a good video of Ralph Lauren biking around NYC somewhere. Cant tell which bike he's on but it might be a Raleigh?

I think you have to have 10 posts before you can post links or pictures?