Photography: A blog of old-school actors on bikes? Yes please
I’m not sure how we’ve never come across this Tumblr before but no matter because our tardiness only means that there’s a massive archive of the ebullient Rides A Bike for us to enjoy. The brainchild of American film critic Steven Rea, it’s a collection of images of well-known faces on two wheels taken predominantly on film sets during the silver screen’s golden age. It’s also a book and an app if this fails to provide enough of a supercool-celebrity-cycle fix but as a starting point – if you’re late to the party like us – delve into this treasure trove of a blog and ponder this – nobody has ever looked as cool as David Niven on a bike (and nobody ever will).
Victor Borge rides a bike
Angela Lansbury rides a bike
Yvette Mimieux rides a bike
Minerva Griswold, Jane Hopkins, Rita Hayworth and Virginia Hovey ride bikes
Warren Beatty rides a bike
Paul Newman side-rides a bike
Mary Beth Hughes rides a bike. Backwards
David Niven rides a bike
Donald Sutherland rides a bike
Dick Van Dyke rides a bike
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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

