Bikes in Popular Culture

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Popular Bikes

Bike Movies (also movies with bikes)

Bike Music

  • Kraftwerk - Tour de France
  • Dukes of Stratosphear - Bike Ride To The Moon
  • Tomorrow - My White Bicycle (covered by Nazareth in the early 1970s, and by the actor who played "Neil the Hippy" in the British TV comedy The Young Ones in 1984)
  • R.A.M.B.O. - U-Lock Justice
  • Harry Dacre (composer) - Daisy Bell (probably better known as "A Bicycle Built For Two" and performed by, among many others, the character HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey)
  • Taking Back Sunday - Bike Scene
  • BMX Bandits
  • The Cool Kids - Black Mags
  • Queen - Bicycle Race
  • Supergrass - Alright (super rad bikes appear in the music video, K also likes playing it whenever possible)
  • Be Your Own Pet - Bicycle Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle
  • Caroline - Bicycle
  • Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do? (Bikes featured in music video, not lyrics)
  • Every Bouncing Souls song ever.
  • Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite played on a bicycle
  • The High Speed Scene - For the Kids

Bike Television

  • Bicycle Repair Man sketch featured on Monty Python's Flying Circus
  • Pacific Blue A show about bicycle cops in Santa Monica that was filmed in Seal Beach.

It lasted from 1996-2000 on the USANetwork, plenty of bike-tricks, gunfights, fistfights, and love-triangles. Character Lt. Palmero (played by Rick Rossovitch) lives in Ojai.

  • E-Ring A short-lived, military drama on NBC that took place in outer-ring of the Pentagon. The main character, an Army Major played Benjamin Bratt, could be seen riding a bicycle to work in full uniform in early promos.

Popular People who like (spending money on) bikes

  • Jason Lee
  • Kanye West
  • Eric Clapton
  • Ralf Hütter
  • Your Mama!
  • Former President Bill Clinton
  • President Bush Jr. (His popularity has been steadily sinking, but he does like his mountain bikes)
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