I love old films featuring cyclists.In a remake of the 39 Steps,Robert Doughnut joins a cycling group to evade capture.Many prominent nwomen have riidden bikes in films and on TV.Please add to the list if you wish
1.Honor Blackman and Diana Dors.A great pair star in a northern drama
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041203/
2.Hattie(Mesurier)Jacques
3.Thora Herd
4.Hylda Baker
5.Joyca Granville-several St Trinians
6.Flora Dobson(Dame)
7.Emerdale Pankhurst
8.Angela Rippon
9Juliet Stevenson
10.French and Sanders-Five Go Biking(Enid Blyton Pastis)
Famous Women Cyclists
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Twiggy on a Raleigh Wisp


At the last count:- Focus Variado, Peugeot 531 pro, Dawes Discovery Tandem, 2 Dawes Kingpins, Raleigh 20, Falcon K2 MTB dropped bar tourer, On One Pompino, Longstaff trike conversion on a Falcon corsa. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLm07s8fnzM Julie Andrews
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Julia ... dGgflGJ_GM:
Julia Roberts
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Julia ... dGgflGJ_GM:
Julia Roberts
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gnvqsos wrote:I love old films featuring cyclists.In a remake of the 39 Steps,Robert Doughnut joins a cycling group to evade capture.
I could have sworn the 1935 Robert Donat film was the original movie of The 39 Steps. I seem to recall Kenneth More, as a very unconvincing Richard Hannay, cycling in the Trossachs to evade capture, in the 1959 version.
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I am sure the bike ridden by Twiggy is a powered bike as it has a licence plate
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mumbojumbo wrote:I am sure the bike ridden by Twiggy is a powered bike as it has a licence plate
It's a Raleigh Wisp moped - an RSW 16 with a 50cc motor. BB, the other one - not Beryl, rode bikes in a few films as did Sophia Loren in a very Italian way.


And Monroe looks as if she took cycling seriously...

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Great pic of Monroe and (I take it) Henry Miller.
Will try to rack my brains and think of some others.
Will try to rack my brains and think of some others.
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I think you will find it was Henry's brother Arthur in the picture-the one who wrote Dearth of Salesmen,and the play about the Salem witches.
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Sorry. Brain freeze/skip at my end.
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[quote][/quote]Sorry. Brain freeze/skip at my end.
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I thank you for your observations.I have seen Diana Dawes st ruggling to ride a bike,and Debbie Reynolds rode a tandem in a Hollywood musical.Another fan of cycling was Bianchi Jagger,after she parted with Mick Jagger.I think a cyclist featured in n a Mercian in Paris-possibly Audrey Hepburn.
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Unread postby Sweep » 29 Aug 2018, 4:33pm
[quote][/quote]Sorry. Brain freeze/skip at my end.
Despite your name you speak the truth.[quote][/quote
I thank you for your observations.I have seen Diana Dawes st ruggling to ride a bike,and Debbie Reynolds rode a tandem in a Hollywood musical.Another fan of cycling was Bianchi Jagger,after she parted with Mick Jagger.I think a cyclist featured in n a Mercian in Paris-possibly Audrey Hepburn.
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Are they cyclists or merely well-known people (stars they might have been called) who have been seen on a bicycle ?
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Do you have to be serious to be a "cyclist"?IUn my opinion anyone riding a bike becomes a cyclist.
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PoB, person on bike, I am one too
I drive a vehicle but am not a motor-ist
I drive a vehicle but am not a motor-ist
Cycling-of course, but it is far better on a Gillott
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J-Lo, I could have gone for the more 'racier' version (see what I did there
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Karlie Kloss, top fashion model
A young Audrey Hepburn, she had her own bike for the film studios where she used to cycle with her dog
Candice Swanepoel, model
A young Audrey Hepburn, she had her own bike for the film studios where she used to cycle with her dog
Candice Swanepoel, model