Two Wheels To Nowhere

history-inpictures: “Candy Cigarette”, photographed by Sally Mann, 1989

It’s the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. ~ proverb

Oddly disturbing

How awesome is this photo? Source: instagram.com

Today, in Muskoka… needs a bumper sticker: “My other bike’s a bike.”

Blue Ridge Parkway and two wheels to nowhere

ridesabike: Gary Cooper rides a bike. Super Duper

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals. ~ Voltaire

humansofnewyork: “I was a cop for twenty-one years. It’s all I ever wanted to do. My father was a cop, and so were both my grandfathers. But I want him to do something else. I’d like him to be able to do a higher level, white-collar kind of thing. You just see so much as…

ericvanwesenbeeck: A friend stumbled across this shop in London, England, while touring there. What are the odds? The coincidence still boggles my mind.

Lack of maintenance

classicvintagecycling: Ronald Reagan and Virginia Mayo, ca 1950.

rollersinstinct: Four-time winner Roger De Vlaeminck did battle with three-time winner Eddy Merckx in the 1970s from a Team Sky gallery looking back at the history of the event. 

rollersinstinct: Paris-Roubaix ’81 by Rudi which saw Bernard Hinault win in the world champion stripes.

Reese rides

classicvintagecycling: Ingrid Bergman. Ingrid rides

humansofnewyork: “I’ve moved home to live with my parents while my dad battles esophageal cancer. I think my being home has helped my mom even more than my dad. She had stopped taking care of herself. There’s this feeling of helplessness when someone you love has cancer. Two weeks can pass between appointments, and there’s…

humansofnewyork: “I emigrated from Liberia at the age of eighteen, and a lovely Jewish family took me in and helped fund my education. Their names were Anne and William Rothenberg. They had never even met me before. But they allowed me to live with them and introduced me to everyone as their daughter. They would…

rollersinstinct: The tail end of the peloton is ‘treated’ to a shower as the cross the line at today’s Gent-Wevelgem, captured by Jered Gruber.

Surreal Source: weheartit.com

The Iron Age

madaboutbike: 1950

Coming or going?

Sand art

rollersinstinct: Mobile soundsystem found on OldBike.  Sony Bikeman

You can’t start ‘em too young.

Challenging architecture

AirForceOne landing in Cuba. Not something you see every day. Or even in the last almost 90 years.

madaboutbike: Mr. Bean in tour de France Gotta love the Bean

humansofnewyork: “I went to every march and protest there was when I was young. I had a peace sign on my little yellow Volkswagen. I remember lying down on the Long Island Expressway in seventy-something to protest Kent State. Crazy, I know. But we thought that would end the war. I guess it did in…

motomood: storms never last Source: facebook.com

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt2088883/ An inspiring human story that just happens to involve bicycle racing.

A view from above

Helios Bisection Source: weheartit.com

Looks like something out of a Dr Seuss story.

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