Brucey wrote:remember the 'Cycles Ouragan' poster from before? This one has a lady and bike in an almost identical posture, so someone's had the tracing paper out...?
Nah - there are a lot of very close similarities Brucey, but a lot of differences. Probably the same artist and at the same time, but 'variations on a theme'.................and rather less robustly built.
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Brucey wrote:another diaphanously dressed young lady pedalling her wares (groan). The thing is, she is somewhat, er, robustly built, unlike the bike, which looks engineered to have something approximating a hinge in the middle of the frame. Forget the lightning bolts, it looks to me as if the first bump (*) will see a structural failure of some kind, either in the bike..... or perhaps the garments....
fat tyres were probably required on the roads of the time; they may have been 650Cs.
(*) or bad attack of wind perhaps; 'ouragan' is French for 'hurricane'....
Looking at the text running up the left-hand bottom side of both posters it's the same printer (and therefore possibly the same artist - I presume these were litho printed) for both? Certainly the facial features are very similar.
JakobW wrote:Looking at the text running up the left-hand bottom side of both posters it's the same printer (and therefore possibly the same artist - I presume these were litho printed) for both? Certainly the facial features are very similar.
Oh yes - certainly. The right arm, and the direction of the rider's gaze are significant differences.
the arms would be in a slightly different position, and the bike would be different in detail, but the rider would be about the same shape on a modern bike; a flat back like that is usually pretty quick
yes this gets to the nub of it; "buy our products because they will make you happy". That's bound to work in a country in which 'happiness' is an inalienable right, enshrined in the constitution.... but I don't think the founding fathers had an overweight, overstyled, chrome plated thing in mind, did they?