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What bike is that that John Lennon is on?

Old 11-01-19, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan

Ringo looking so suave cruising through the thoroughfare in Copenhagen 1977. Forgive my ignorance but is that someone famous with him?
It looks like your typical late 70's dude.
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Old 11-01-19, 08:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Milton Keynes
Well, obviously looking at the name on the head tube, it's a Prouo. Must be some little-known Italian bike.
They got this bike when they had their sleep-in in the Amsterdam Hilton. Provo was an anti-authorian movement that wanted to end the tarmacterror of the motorized bourgeosie with a free bike share of old bikes painted white. They also came up with an E-car share, the witkar
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Old 11-01-19, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
What are you referring to? Sorry just not clear. Your i.d. picture is giving me a sweet tooth
joking about another thread about a child's seat on a bike where several posters said they would call the police
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Old 11-01-19, 10:15 AM
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Ringo looking so suave cruising through the thoroughfare in Copenhagen 1977. Forgive my ignorance but is that someone famous with him?
Originally Posted by Milton Keynes
It looks like your typical late 70's dude.
Henrik Iversen. (Because he's Henrik Iversen.)

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Old 11-01-19, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by mr_bill
Henrik Iversen. (Because he's Henrik Iversen.)

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OK, no bar bets with you:
https://books.google.com/books?id=ne...icycle&f=false


Uncanny.
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Old 11-01-19, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Okay now that you went back and added this much better resolution photo later...I just blew it up and I clearly see it.

SO KUDOS! IT IS DEFINITIVE.........IT IS INDEED A BOTTECCHIA..........YOU ARE THE ONE THAT SOLVED IT.......NICE. ......................your reward is a lint sculpture I made from my old unwashed socks.....if you choose to forgo that prize......then I formally declare you Genius of the Universe of Things That Have No Significance.....which is actually a meaningful title.

That picture I looked at before was lower resolution. They must have used a different logo on the head badge than the ones I saw...which is a common thing.

Now the last question is why did John pick this brand of bike and this must imply that he knew something about quality or whoever gave it to him did.....which also makes sense. He used to ride Raleigh bikes in earlier days. I wonder how often Bottecchia was imported to the U.S. in the early seventies. If he had gotten in an argument with Yoko he could have got away quick. No slight on her....I think they were deeply in love. If anyone starts posting pictures of Beatles on bikes.....I will be mad...very mad.....but I will like it.....so go ahead if you dare.....if you have the nerve.....I dare yah..........using a little reverse psychology to kick start this thread......and the more surreal the comments the better.
My father in law has a Bottechia Campione del Mundo in his garage that I’ve promised him I would one day fix up. He used it to ride from LA to SF back in the late 60’s/early 70s. I would say Bottechia was a fairly obtainable brand in the US, by European import standards at the time, so I wouldn’t be surprised that Lennon just went into his LBS, asked for something he could ride around Central Park on with Yoko, and that’s what he walked out with.
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Old 11-01-19, 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Ok.....mr. bill stop showing off....
Would you believe I've had a pint or two at the Kings Arms?

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Old 11-01-19, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
I would...I might have.....Don't remember....but I didn't have one where Tolkien and Lewis used to meet. Want to go back and live there some day. I liked Woodstock.....you studied there?
No, just travel too much.

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Old 11-02-19, 06:06 AM
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Originally Posted by TheDudeIsHere
I think you are all wrong. If you zoom in a bit more, one can see it is a Trek. It is a known fact John was a Trek fanatic!



You're only part right. It's a Trek painted up to look like a prop bike Masi from the movie Breaking Away
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Old 11-02-19, 09:23 AM
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What bike did Butch ride?

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Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
(Hope no A&S type busybodies called the police over the seating arrangement or headwear).
They're a bit crazy in there! The types who cycle about with a camera on their head...

Lennon would get savaged in A&S but the police..? It's legal to carry a child and not wear a helmet. Still, today. Here, anyway. That's how I've rolled most of my daughter's life.

Originally Posted by VintageTTfan

Help.....at this point in their career they were confused apparently.



Kickstands! Kickstands everywhere! Oh the shame...
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Old 11-02-19, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by nomadmax
You're only part right. It's a Trek painted up to look like a prop bike Masi from the movie Breaking Away
Either way, there’s too many of them around.
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Originally Posted by Sy Reene
What bike did Butch ride?

The coaster brake doesn't look period to me. Coaster brakes existed, but that design looks about 15-20 years too early. The best theory online seems to be that the prop people cobbled together a bike to look period, but extended the fork to facilitate Paul Newman's excellent trick riding. Newman's stunt man, btw, couldn't do the tricks, and the one stunt not performed by Newman--falling off the bike -- was done by a cameraman.
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Old 11-03-19, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Sir you know your stuff. I am impressed. And thus also this killer psychedelic song possibly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzULAq6PJ-4

My White Bicycle by Tomorrow from 1967
Allthough I do have a soft spot for music where the guy behind the mixing console has done more drugs than the band, I'm not really into that particular psychedelic genre. I had no idea there was a song about it. I guess I knew because I am from the Netherlands, both the sleep inn and the white bike plan are quie common historical knowledge here.
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Would you believe “My White Bicycle” is in wikipedia?

Anyhow, it appears that it may be somewhat unlikely that the white bike plan is common knowledge in Iowa. It certainly might be possible that people who are bike-share skeptics may or may not know.


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Paul again.

And while not a Beatle, since the film is available, another Paul:


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Old 11-05-19, 05:47 PM
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What Ten Speed is Creedence drummer, Doug "Cosmo" Clifford seen on the cover of COSMO'S FACTORY, (released in 1970) one of the best rock n roll albums of all time?

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Cosmo's Factory (1970)
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Ringo thinking "Why couldn't I have one of those girl's bikes?!? Then this wouldn't happen."
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Here's an easier one than John's bike:



Reporter: 'Are you a mod or a rocker?'
Ringo: 'I'm a mocker.'

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Peter Gabriel's unmistakable ride:

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Originally Posted by tcs
Peter Gabriel's unmistakable ride:

Nice Disraeli gears on that folder.
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anyone know and can prove the chain lube Lennon was using?
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Here's an easy one.
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Originally Posted by VintageTTfan
Who is this?
Clue: Cinelli fan.
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Originally Posted by Vintage Schwinn
What Ten Speed is Creedence drummer, Doug "Cosmo" Clifford seen on the cover of COSMO'S FACTORY, (released in 1970) one of the best rock n roll albums of all time?

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Cosmo's Factory (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2GixRGf4AU
Likely a poor man's version of whatever The Band was riding.
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