"A bicycle is just an acoustic motorcycle” is a jocular one-line saying that has been printed on several images. “How many other guys here ride a bike?"/"I ride an acoustic motorcycle” was posted on the newsgroup rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz on November 12, 2007.
“A bicycle is just an acoustic motorcycle” was posted on Twitter on June 29, 2013.
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Following an old MO - visited some music stores today
Tim McNamara
11/12/07
jimmyb wrote:
> How many other guys here ride a bike?
I ride an acoustic motorcycle:
12 July 2010, Ottawa (ON) Citizen, “Blues on wheels; Festival’s parking service a huge hit with cyclists” by Bruce Ward, pg. D1:
Electric guitars rule at Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest. But the sound that delights Charles Akben-Marchand is the ticking of wheels turning on an acoustic motorcycle—a bicycle, that is.
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rim rolling champion
@tducharm
a bicycle is just an acoustic motorcycle
4:23 PM - 29 Jun 2013
Twitter
rim rolling champion
@tducharm
a bicycle is just an acoustic motorcycle
4:23 PM - 29 Jun 2013
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
A bicycle is just an acoustic motorcycle.
submitted March 19, 2015 by Eagle_spirit
Twitter
BILL NYE THO
@Bill_Nye_Tho
a bicycle is basically an acoustic motorcycle
11:00 PM - 6 Dec 2015
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Correct Names
@CorrectNames
Acoustic Motorcycle (WIth a bicycle illustration.—ed.)
5:04 PM - 18 Jul 2017
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
A bike is just an acoustic motorcycle
submitted August 3, 2017 by 2GoldDubloonz
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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