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Retro RFH: Masked & Living to Ride

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Riding with the wind — or something — at RFH in the 1970s Photo/George Day
Riding with the wind — or something — at RFH in the 1970s
Photo/George Day

The sun has made an appearance or three lately, snow is being sopped up by fertile soil and people are getting ready to make a break for it and ride out of bleak pandemic times and into the sunset. Free.

Or would that be a free period at RFH? Either way, there’s something freeing about a little sun, a bike and a couple of free spirits, disguise or not.

 Yes, we know it’s not spring quite yet, but the COVID fatigued and daydreamers can dream. Call it sustenance 

No matter. The weather will soon be fine for a number of out-of-season activities, including taking a bike ride — on a bicycle, a motorcycle or even a mini bike or micro mini bike or, OK, maybe just something with a motor and two wheels. However you put it, it’ll soon be a good time to be outside riding into the sun somehow.

So, in another retro toast to the advent of unseasonably good weather and all activities that follow suit, the Retro Pic of the (George) Day takes us back to a day in the 1970s when a couple of RFH guys were desperately trying to get out of the Senior Lounge and take a ride.

The only problem is that they were stuck in the pit on a bike that probably wouldn’t get them very far. OK, maybe it would get them to The Campus Luncheonette or Piping Rock Park.

Oh, and the masks may have been a bit of a deterrent. A little out of season for spring, don’t you think? OK, so the photo was likely taken on Halloween. A retro ride is a retro ride and the sun always shines on a good spirit or two.

These guys were living to ride and riding to live — or something out of this world like their masks and that bike.

So, we’ll spring this one on you: Who do you think they are and what kind of bike is that, exactly?

Thanks, once again, to the incomparable George Day for this photo!