SurferRosa

Rocket-Sauce 

QEII

T-Mar

+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.

T-Mar

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".

stardognine

I win this thread, lol. I don't do Facebook, but found this there in a search. Ginger Baker, with a bike!!! 😎😁😎

Disraeli Gears is a real thing. 😁

52telecaster

Make sure he doesn't hit you!

stardognine

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. 🙂

clubman 

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.

gearbasher

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

stardognine

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

Reynolds 531 

FYI, she's back on the market.

stardognine

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. 😉

gearbasher

How about JACKson Browne and BRUCE Springsteen

stardognine

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. 🙄😉

Ha, I switched things around there. Sorry, Bruce. 😁😉

oldbobcat

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.

xiaoman1 

missed it by that much

Aardwolf

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/

Rocket-Sauce 

Jay and Silent Bob

T-Mar

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.

MieleCall

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?

Ballenxj

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

SurferRosa

Lovers filming A New kind of Love (1963).

stardognine

I think I've outdone myself, for rock musicians on bicycles. This is the last pic ever taken of Syd Barrett, as found and described at www.sydbarrett.com



RIP, Syd. 😟

old's'cool

Shine on you crazy diamond

stardognine

I suspect this might've been posted before. Frank Zappa "playing" a bicycle, on the Steve Allen show. Frank was 22 here, in 1963.