Bike pics that tell a story

I like this pic.

Fixie courier girl on a fast bike in the 1930s checking her map.

It’s quite a story too.

The second picture is just a metaphor for the comments section below any online news article that mentions cycling, isn’t it?

That courier bike is a beauty.

The second picture is just a metaphor for the comments section below any online news article that mentions cycling, isn’t it?

This one would work too …

Greatest bike pic ever

Going back to epicyclo’s great pic (and wondering why my iPad tries to autocorrect his name to spicy love) I used to drink with a guy who would deliver a small van load of stuff to Paris a few TI sea year and would regularly stock up French ladies race bikes and single speeds from the 60s that looked like that.
Lovely bikes and a great photo there.

Greatest bike pic ever

they knew a thing or two about bar width back then.

Third guy from the left.
Pegs on the forks for freewheeling that fixie down a mountain. No top tube or down tube, just tension cables. A brake that presses straight on the tyre and he’s got all the way up there and now has to get down.
Epic.
And the hipster on the right is channelling his inner Donald Sutherland.

The second picture is just a metaphor for the comments section below any online news article that mentions cycling, isn’t it?

Is that related to not bothering to hide the dickness?

eddiebaby – where is that picture of the blokes on the mountain taken ?

No idea. I saw it and was blown away and copied to my desktop. I’ll try to find the original.

Fixie courier girl on a fast bike in the 1930s checking her map.

Oh for the days when you could cycle without the slightest thought of wearing a helmet or carrying a dozen meat hooks on your belt

No idea who/what/where but I do love it.

Cyril Cabiac backflipping at the TDF 08(?)

Jesus christ, that TDF backflip was idiotic! Two guys dropping 40ft into water 1 sec apart and predictably the 2nd guy lands right on top of the first! That could have been really bad

ties & tweed when it was the fashion rather than fashionable. my grandad far left.

rOcKeTdOg
ties & tweed when it was the fashion rather than fashionable. my grandad far left.

Like his bike. Any idea what it was? Wing nuts suggest it was “fast”.

The dude is owning it rOcKeTdOg

he worked for B.S.A. so suspect it would be one of theirs

eddiebaby – where is that picture of the blokes on the mountain taken ?

No doubt somewhere just after repack rider invented riding a bike up.and down mountains

Cyril Cabiac backflipping at the TDF 08(?)

What story does it tell? Man does back flip…and that’s about it.

I’m looking forward to the Rough Stuff Fellowship Archive Kickstarter book. Having seen the previews, most of the photos look like they have a great story behind them.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/688905218/the-rough-stuff-fellowship-archive-book

This Graham Watson classic has a whole epic of betrayal and revenge behind it:

What story does it tell?

Clash of 2 cycling cultures?

I’ve just come across this rather interesting Guardian article on the role of the bicycle in the Women’s Liberation movement.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2015/jun/18/freewheeling-equality-cycling-women-rights-yemen-bicycle-liberation

The four Norwegians are one of my favourite pics – this is another – Waterford cycle club 1897, all immaculately attired in heavy tweeds, hats and ties.
From the size of the chainwheel that three up tandem must have been a rocket. The absence of brakes must have made it an interesting ride too, which would account for the evil grin on the front guy, the big guy in the middle preparing a roll up and the rear gunner looking nervous.
The bike on the far left looks like it drives the front wheel through some sort of epicyclic

Waterford cycle club

pjay, what’s the story behind the tribesmen pics you posted please? Any links?

pjay, what’s the story behind the tribesmen pics you posted please? Any links?

If you click on the first picture I posted it’ll take you to the story which is an Australian outback trek; sorry, I didn’t make it clear that I’d linked via the photo – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2654800/Historic-photos-3-000km-bike-ride-Adelaide-Darwin.html

A proper bikepacker – 3000 off road KM in 4 weeks on what looks like a heavily laden fixie!

https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/rail-bike.118666/

@malvernrider I’m calling photoshop on that. 😁

sorry, I didn’t make it clear that I’d linked via the photo

It’s linking to the Daily Mail that you should be apologising for.

I thought this site converted Daily Mail links to kittens… has Mark lowered his moral standards?

Now this is a proper bike story;

<h1 class=”sf-entry-title”>1907: Lenin takes a Torquay holiday</h1>