Fantastic touring outfits..

[Arch]

Just love the two guys bottom right of this page...

http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/awheel/awheel3b.html

I'm not sure what's funnier, the hats or the sandals....

 

[Landslide]

The hats! The hats!

 

[EmGee DK]

Moustaches

 

[Melvil]

At least they can leap directly into the water when they get to the beach (to paddle - of course!).

 

[Milo]

I say they look like a pair of hip young gun slingers.

 

[Tim Bennet.]

The one on the right posts on here as ASC1951.

He's put on a lot of weight, but still has that bike (somewhere in his living room).

 

[Keith Oates]

I like the adjustable 'shorts'. One pair covers all social functions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rikki]

The hats are regulation helmets in that part of the world (where ever it was) and don't look any sillier than any other cycling lid. Not very sun smart though.

I like the blanket rolls on the handle bars.

What do you think is written on the tea towels hanging on the front?

 

[TheDoctor]

The hats are regulation helmets in that part of the world (where ever it was) and don't look any sillier than any other cycling lid. Not very sun smart though.

I like the blanket rolls on the handle bars.

What do you think is written on the tea towels hanging on the front?

The first discovered cycling reference to a baby elephant, I suspect...

 

[NickM]

The one on the left cycled across Asia with an American flag fluttering on his handlebars?

Bet he won't do that again

"Across Asia on a Bicycle" was quite good, but I preferred the same author's "Down Everest on a Skateboard".

 

[Arch]

The one on the left cycled across Asia with an American flag fluttering on his handlebars?

Bet he won't do that again

"Across Asia on a Bicycle" was quite good, but I preferred the same author's "Down Everest on a Skateboard".

I've just read (well, reviewed) a book about Annie Londonderry who cycled around the world in the late 19th C and she carried an American flag too... I think in those days, the Americans hadn't had time to get quite so many people to hate them....

Mind you, her story is interesting - seems she made most of it up and her idea of cycle touring involved long passages on steamers..

http://www.annielondonderry.com/

BTW, I thought it was a good book - more about her and the trip than the bicycle, but I think it's good to be reminded that not so long ago, a woman in trousers could shock an entire town!

Rikki, I was wondering about the teatowels too! Perhaps it was advertising? Apparently Annie sold space on her outfit to advertisers to pin ribbons on and such like...

 

[Tetedelacourse]

I bet we'll look just as, if not more, odd in our kit in a 100 years or so.

NO not fossilised, och you know what I mean.

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Better traffic though!

 

[Arch]

Incredible though, isn't it - riding across Asia in 1895. The roads must have been absolutely atrocious (or non-existent) a lot of the time. They must have had bums of steel

And I think (although it's hard to see) one gear....

I don't suppose those bikes were all that lightweight either...