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This one is awesome



and for the gear heads:

Do bike movie ads count?

Sorry, probably just totally mucked up the layout....

OJeff: That Peugeot is pretty baller. The cassette is almost too small to see. CF main triangle with metal lugs; 80's super speed machine!

Haha - great idea for a thread!

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Do public service announcements count? This one might be one of the strangest I've seen in a while.

sure!

That's a great video. Thanks for sharing, Pseudacris.

Perhaps the sequel covers stopping for a fallen rider and basic first aid.

@ben The cassette is almost too small to see Indeed. The proverbial straight block. Probably six cogs at most.

Something like that, you mean?



There is a large jump between 4 and 5, 2 teeth, for those Ohio hills. Yeah, I haven't ridden that wheel in a while.

@RubberFactory: Yes! I was just thinking this thread needed more rad 90's kid's bike ads.

Eddie Fiola!

I saw him and Martin Aparijo back when Snitger's had a shop on Penn Avenue (before it was Gatto).

In "how to be awesome" it's not clear if the "Special Purpose" label is referring to the top tube pad or his crotch.

someday you'll find out what the special purpose was.

kinda OT, but maybe not... my wife won me an awesome Jeff Guerrero coffee cup (now my every-day coffee cup) with a neat Pittsburgh skyline design across the top. On the front and back are images of a Schwinn that I was unable to identify until I just now saw dmtroyer's post above. It is a Schwinn Manta Ray - 5-speed, with hand brakes!

this one's kinda...weird.

Just in time to make a house purge go a WHOLE lot slower.

this one's good.

just about every point on that says "stronger" or "strength."

From the wikipedia entry on bloomers. Not a bike ad per se, but a piece of social satire that was on a cigar box lid.

^^ Love the "Bloomer Club Cigar" lettering.

are those tiny hand weights next to the bottles of booze on the lower right?

^ indeed!

Good description of this satirical piece here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bloomer-Club-cigars-satire-p-adv054.JPG

some other good ones



always been a sucker for the rudge hand



don't even know what to think about this one



and the next two aren't technically bike adverts, but...

I just discovered that I NEED a Rudge cottered crank.

AHHHHH The creepy kid shows up in a different ad

I have a t-shirt printed with that Rudge crank. It is pretty awesome.

Vaguely related: Joel Metz's chainring sleeve tattoo.

Chrysler Corporation was still making DeSoto cars in 1959, but the brand was declining fast. The last one was 1961.

It must have been really bad there in those last days, if they couldn't even spell "manufacturing" correctly. They weren't selling enough cars so they made bicycles, too?

And bikes with tailfins?

I may have posted this before, but what the hey. (Click through for the full brochure)

The CYCLORATIO is the complete answer to those cycling "authorities" who declared that Cycle design had reached stagnation point.

Even in 1946, the recumbent evangelists were out there.

Linky?

compare the 'frontage' of the rider on the orthodox machine, to that of the rider on the Cycloratio.

Sorry, I can't come up with a snappy quip because I can't stop giggling...

Creepy ginger ahhhhhhh

that's going to give me nightmares

OK, so this isn't really a bike ad, but this was an ad in Pittsburgh's 1987 Great Ride. we just got a copy of the program in the office:

Teee Heeee:

Pappan's Family Restaurant

and here's apparently a water bottle

logo fail

here's a closer look of pappan's family restaurant

heheheee. just thought it was important to archive this on the internet

Wow, a piercing way back when. Hip!

hahahaha, now I am seeing that logo differently. thanks a lot!

what were they thinking?

wonder if you can still get these?

This is one of my favorites. And while the uninitiated might think, "Of course, boobs", there is actually a much more involved symbolism happening here.

According to an auction website at www.liveauctioneers.com/item/8524304

"Utilizing the allegorical imagery frequently associated with the French proverb "La Verité sort du puits" (The Truth comes out of a well), in which a nude female representing Truth is seen leaping forth from a well, here we are presented with an advertisement for a bicycle chain. Rather than the usual rope-pulley system, a bike-chain like mechanism is depicted behind her as she makes a superstitious hand gesture against bad luck. Apparently, if you use this brand of bicycle chain, you will be protected from all harm -- no lie. "

what a difference just a few years makes in the dorkiness factor.

couldn't resist

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=331

This thread is so full of win. Got my good laugh in for the day.

I'm sorry Beth, but when I saw your avatar next to it, I couldn't help it...

haha hooolllyyyy shiiiitt

Asobi's link in turn links to an interesting 1869 book, The Velocipede; Its History Varieties And Practice, that claims to be the first book about bikes. Some quotes:

When the rumor first came across the water, a few years ago, of that wonderful and fascinating little two wheeled machine upon which one could so gracefully annihilate time and space, the author of this little book was seized with his first attack of Velocipede Fever.

We think it an invention which will not have ephemeral popularity, but which will, in its way, revolutionize travel for all time.

At a later date M Dreuze made an improvement on this invention, which met with some success as a toy. A number of these machines were constructed after his model, and distributed among country postmen, who used the novelty for a time, until a heavy fall of snow rendered them unserviceable, when they were abandoned, greatly to the gratification of a conservative class, who, detesting anything in the way of innovation, had prophesied their failure.

Its want of adaptability to the roughly paved road ways of our cities is already, in a great measure, overcome, and experience has proved its facility in rure. We have seen the bicycle run with ease on country roads, and dashing with full speed through city streets, totally regardless of curbstones or crossings. In New York, no matter where you go, a velocipede is sure to whiz past you. The school boy rides up Fifth Avenue in the morning with his books strapped before him. In Broadway, where stages, wagons, carts, trucks, and carriages clog the street from morning till night, the iron steed may be seen gracefully cutting its way among the larger vehicles.

Almost a century and a half later, but some things haven't changed.

Sorry the link broke, here it is:

The Carefree Girls just left Bicycle Heaven today,,a bit cold out,,but had a great time

whoa nick, that is the creepest gif on earth

here's an ad for those bowden bicycles that they have like 10 of at the Bicycle Museum.

They were $4100 msrp in 1946

more info here: http://www.retronaut.co/2010/08/spacelander-electric-bicycle-1946/

I wonder how old that Bowden ad is. Can't be any earlier than 1970, when 800 numbers came to be (and they weren't all that commonly used until about 1980). Five-digit zipcodes are only a few years older, about 1965. But no website, so no later than about 2000.

The Bowden Spacelander was produced in 1960 but was reissued in 1997.

http://nbhaa.com/indexBowden.html

http://www.43bikes.com/bowden.html

ah, it said it was designed in '46 for an exhibition

Schwinn loves their redheaded kids