Every now and then present new bike stuff neither neatly contained nor overlooked but too insignificant to merit individual elaboration. Saw a handtowel with Babar the Elephant riding a bike, instances of bikes in commercial and films, landscape bikes planted with flowers and vines, some ghost bike memorials, and totes with images of bikes representing "green" of reusable versus disposable bags; am pretty fed up with ubiquitous plastic bag litter. References can be obliquely offhanded. Led Zeppelin's 1973 concert video "The Song Remains the Same" begins with a bike messenger riding a long country road to deliver a list of tour dates to a vacationing band member. PBS serial production of "Call The Midwife" set in 1950's England has title characters routinely delivering babies by utility bicycles replete with Brooks saddles and chain guards.
Bleeding hearts at Canadian Tire ran a wonderful ad in 1989 that defies you to suppress a tear and won several awards.
They followed up in 2013 with a clever suburban dream spot.
Two songs previously mentioned are repeated with links.
Ashley Theberge, "Bicycles", from Ba Doo Day.
Liane Smith, "Bicycle", from Two Sides of a River
Skylar Grey features famous rapper Eminem in newly released fun single "C'mon Let Me Ride".
In realm of incomprehensible, Ukrainian grandmothers sing "My Bicycle, a bicycle". Would beat riding a bus.
Recent concert by NYC band Vampire Weekend included "Obvious Bicycle" from their 3rd album Modern Vampires of the City.
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Bike&Chain is a third person narrative in an experimental style. Because motility is as essential as food and water, this 1,000 page book cuts across artistic, political, scientific and spiritual boundaries. Approaching impressions collected during tens of thousands of hours as literary art avoids dry, impersonal aspects of most bicycling books. Pedaling such distances demands determination, lube, passion and spandex. Since cycling is best described as serious fun, Bike&Chain accordingly confronts conventions on all fronts, including those that classify art by genre and expect linear attention. Has new internal structures, such as alphabetically listing things unless logic dictates otherwise, or giving digits to count inanimate abstracts and objects but not people. Numbers dehumanize. Metaphors obscure. Concrete facts found these earthy tales of visceral activity. Blog has been advertising free and open source since begun in 2008. Readers who act based on information given assume responsibility for consequences.
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Consists of 10+ years, 1,064 pp. of blog entries, 316,000 words, that further probe Bike&Chain perspectives not already covered by book, and many articles not otherwise available.
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Updated in 6/2023, lists nearly 2300 songs related to bicycling.
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Glad you folks think so much of this post. Hope you'll read others from 2008 onwards. They are an extention of book (1,000 pp) and previous blog (~400 pp).
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