The Grateful Dead and Cycling
 

Maybe it is just me but I see a lot of GD avatars and a lot of GD references in posts.
More so than any other band imo.
Is this a Zen thing?
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=475094

Think no-thing of it.

Lots of old hippies riding bikes.

They [the dead] only see what they want to see.

Bob Weir used to ride a lot, maybe still does.

Bill Walton = huge deadhead and rides a lot.

Gary Fisher made a Grateful Dead edition HKEK back in the day.

Somebody make an ashtray to fit on bike handlebars please.

Maybe you're thinking of Creedence...

http://www.covermesongs.com/wp-conte.../05/cosmos.jpg

Good Music and nice ride. They both put me in my happy place!:thumb:

April Wine was into '70s gaspipe too, along with table hockey and cappuccinos. ffwd to 4:00 for the Daytripper breakdown with the video of extracurricular activities.

And then, there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9P2V0_p6vE

Who?

Oh ya, I remember seeing their name in Bill Kreutzmann's new book "Deal" which I just happen to be reading.

BTW, I'm not a hippy or deadhead and never have been. I'm only in it for the music.

Well when a band has been around that long there's bound to be few references into the common vernacular and a slew of fans.

That's John Fogerty - without whom the current Creedence is a band touring on fumes* - on a Motorcycle!

*I don't blame them for doing what they need to do to make a living.

Charlie Kelly will tell you the story.

Charlie Kelly's Mountain Bike Hubsite

True but the Stones and the Who and Led Zep have also been around forever along with lots of other great bands and I just don't see anywhere near the same representation on these forums :)
I think there's something to it and that bicycling and the Dead just go together.
Pretty cool imo.

Check out the Foo forum. There's a few threads of music from various eras. Very educational.

I'm surprised that we don't see more Pee-Wee Herman avatars. I think he was into bikes.

I used to see dead people.

And just when ya thought you've seen it all

Lots of well off SF Pop musicians moved to Marin County, home of Mt Tam, where the modern MTB was spawned.

Who????

The Grateful Dead?

Oh yes, I seem to remember their off-key caterwauling on the old Sullivan show.

In reality.....Jerry Garcia and the rest would probably be so stoned all the time, that they'd probably be the biggest hazard to cyclists on the road!

Lol
As opposed to other musicians who don't do drugs?
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Yeah, pretty much all of those guys (and gals) are a menace. If they weren't being shuttled around in tour busses and private planes, they' all either be dead, or in jail for vehicular homicide. Who was it? Keith Moon? Who ran over his own friend/bodyguard?

The rock 'N roll culture seems to be the antithesis of cycling.

Lmao
As opposed to the rampant doping that has been a part of professional cycling since forever?
Illegal and cheating. Nice!
So the singular Keith Moon incident is equivalent to the hundreds or thousands of recreational biker collisions/crashes reported each year how?
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I wonder when Mickey will come through town next :)