#bicycles

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[possumcollege]

A thought 10,000% inspired by a columnist coming home to find no dinner on the table because his wife was out tearing it up on her velocipede.

He's right fuming on the porch with an unopened can and a spoon and a tear rolling off his mustache while she's hitting the pump track, doing hands-free reverse donuts, and smoking weed out of an apple by the lake.

[vintagepromotions]

Poster advertising Omega bicycles, featuring a young man smoking a pipe while riding a bicycle (c. 1920). Artwork by Albert Dorfinant.

[nemfrog]

"Ordinary bicycle." Cycling for health and pleasure. 1890.

Internet Archive

[bikedecorations]

The best part of Witch Hat Bike Decorations is… any other design can be a witch!

Witch one wore it better???

[thatsbelievable]

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Brown and White ~

[yeoldenews]

I will never be as charismatic as this child.

(source: The Tampa Tribune, December 22, 1901.)

[forever70s]

image from a 1973 Lambert bicycles ad

[coolthingsguyslike]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[pogphotoarchives]

Women riding bicycles, Las Vegas, New Mexico

Photographer: Rex Studio Date: ca. 1900 Negative Number: 077411

[allthingscycling]

velysiped

[thatsrightice]

But [Rosie] was not very good at maneuvering a spindly British bicycle. As "airplane commander," Rosenthal was issued along with a good deal of other matériel, a bicycle for getting around the wide vistas of Thorpe Abbotts. He found himself heavily burdened by all this issue but somehow managed to get himself upon the cycle. He carried a load of gear in one arm, had draped his life preserver around his neck, and set off in the general direction of his quarters.

Rosenthal managed to do pretty well, for he got some distance away from the supply hut and was pedaling his uncertain way along a little dirt road. A shift in the load contributed to a series of unusual course changes which came to a sudden, damp conclusion as Rosenthal, newly issued supplies and bicycle plunged down an embankment into one of those charming little ditches that run along the picturesque rural English roads.

Lying in the water (which was not deep), Lieutenant Rosenthal felt there was only one thing to do in this emergency as he lay there, face up in the ditch: he inflated his Mae West. This was probably the only time during all of the Second World War that a member of the 8th Air Force was thus saved from British waters.

— an except from Edward Jablonski’s Flying Fortress : the illustrated biography of the B-17s and the men who flew them

[sovietpostcards]

"Small but strong." Postcard by A. Bazhenov (1961).