The sun has made an appearance or three lately, but not today. And people, like cooped-up RFH students are likely stir crazy and ready to make a break for it and ride out of bleak winter blues and into warm sunsets. Incognito or not.

Back in the day, in the good ol’ Senior Commons lounging daze of the 1970s, there was no need to hide and ride — even on RFH grounds on a free period. 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 daydreamers can dream. Call it sustenance. And a picture like this is the thing quality daydreams are made of.

No matter. The weather will soon be fine for a number of now 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 hope of better weather and all activities that follow suit outside, the Retro Pic of the (George) Day takes us back to a day in 1978 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 that groovy floor 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 off-season, more Halloween than dank wintry daze, right? 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!

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