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Born on this day, December 12:
Piet Van Kempen, Dutch cyclist (1898-1985) shown here having breakfast at a six-day event in 1936.
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Piet!
#BOTD
📷Derek Berwin
Almira Gulch, a.k.a. the Wicked Witch of the West, shown here on her way to collect Dorothy's dog Toto in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Happy #BicycleBirthday to actress Margaret Hamilton!
#BornOnThisDay December 9, 1902
#BikesInFilms
You can't do a death-defying Evel Knievel motorcycle stunt if you're not old enough to ride a motorcycle - you start off doing them on bicycles. So here's the man himself selling a bunch of bicycles.
#BicycleBirthday Evel Knievel
#BOTD October 17, 1938
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSBDvY6OP88
“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.”
-Bob Weir, founding member of the Grateful Dead
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Bob!
#BornOnThisDay, October 16, 1947
Cycling Capote
📷Slim Aarons
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Truman Capote!
#BornOnThisDay September 30, 1924
“I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.”
-William Saroyan, novelist
Happy #BicycleBirthday, William!
#BornOnThisDay August 31 (1908-1981)
