Monday PSA: Bike Safety = Bike Fun!
June 29th, 2009
Filed under: Comics
With the 2009 Tour de France starting this weekend, I thought it would be the perfect time for this bike themed public service ad from 1960. There’s not much too it: a few take home points and then a quick quiz. Can you pass? (I missed one, but I blame the art — I thought the kid on the bike was intentionally trying to run over the pedestrians).
As usual, this PSA was written by Jack Schiff. Pencils and inks were by Bernard Baily. This PSA was found in DC comics of September 1960, including Adventure Comics #276. And for the record, the winner of the 1960 Tour de France was Gastone Nencini, the “Lion of Mugello.”
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June 30th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Although, it is worth noting that a fair amount of bikers believe that Rule 2 may actually be harmful due to cars forgetting you’re there and swerving or turning into you. This does, of course, pre-suppose that you can maintain speed, so that tip may be more for adult bikers, of course. And, of course, this is still a mildly controversial stance after years of indoctrinating kids to always defer in all ways to cars and that if they get hit, it’s their own fault.
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