http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Only Advert I Can Recall Seeing With Cycling... en Sun, 31 May 2026 10:02:01 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-347263 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:32:50 +0000 ARobComp 347263@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I somehow ended up voicing a "Yorkshire Hovis delivery boy" in a BBC local radio dramatisation in the 90's.</p> <p>Can't for the life of me what it was about but I do have a strong memory of being aged about 10 or 11 and having knowing with absolute certainty that I my Yorkshire accent was terrible. I take this opportunity to apologise to the people of Yorkshire. The situation haunts my dreams. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-347248 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:06:19 +0000 gembo 347248@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ejstubbs</p> <p>Ah yes I have been fallacious</p> <p>However this brings me to</p> <p>Argumentum ad hominem the favoured tactic of Cooooslor Vebnber. Straw man, fallacy, safety measures are dangerous etc </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-347225 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:44:24 +0000 ejstubbs 347225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo: Thanks, interesting (note that Wiki says it's "homin<strong>is</strong> vis"). It also says that the inventor of Hovis as in the milling process is buried in Highgate Cemetery. Back in the early 1980s I used to live round the corner from there. I did once visit it in order to check out Karl Marx' last resting place. I satisfied myself that it was indeed there, but the place as a whole didn't have a comfortable feel for me so I didn't explore any further. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-347224 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 10:22:45 +0000 gembo 347224@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@stubbsie, search Hominem Vis and see if anything comes up?</p> <p>Actually so ingrained in my psyche that if I ever see a non sliced wholemeal loaf with HOVIS on the side I will instantly buy it.</p> <p>I love a bakery </p> <p>If I ever get back t9 Dublin I am go8ng on a pilgrimage to the Cremore bakery. Fab old scotch plain loves don’t tell them. But batch not slice. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-347220 Wed, 24 Feb 2021 09:54:10 +0000 ejstubbs 347220@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Surprised no-one's mentioned this one:</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4-EjJt52ZQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4-EjJt52ZQ</a></p> <p>"Britain's favourite TV ad" according to none other than Carlton Reid, apparently. Pity the music has nothing to do with cycling or indeed Britain (or bread, for that matter). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-347200 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:16:12 +0000 gembo 347200@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice little thread this one, I am resurrecting as the show Unforgotten is back and one of the four potential murderers cycles a rather sweet bike with porter rack (no luggage) and white wall tyres around cambridge.</p> <p>The corpse is quite gruesome but there might be a slight tweak of the formula. On STV catch up </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-164697 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:35:33 +0000 Roibeard 164697@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not just Pino-type, but Hase Pino itself...</p> <p>Top end, judging by the price!</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-164601 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:34:13 +0000 wingpig 164601@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not an advert and I can't find the Cyling TV thread but Gadget Man just now has a Pino-type semirecumbent on it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51342 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:14:10 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 51342@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Basically it's an example of the fact that cycling is becoming more 'mainstream' and is in that 'cool' phase before it simply becomes 'normal'. Different enough to stand out in advertising; widespread enough to liked.</p> <p>It shows that <em>we</em> are getting there, slowly but surely.</p> <p>And at least the Mickey D riders will then ride off the pointless tasteless fatty calories.</p> <p>(it has been about 9 years since my last McD/BK/KFC experience...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51330 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:53:58 +0000 kaputnik 51330@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To be honest I don't see what either has to do with cycling apart from "ooh, look at these cool people, wouldn't you like to be cool like them too? Here, have a burger. And buy this phone while you're at it. You want to be cool, don't you?" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51317 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:16:33 +0000 crowriver 51317@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Both the McD*****s ad and the Bl******y ad seem to be cashing in on the Critical Mass / flashmob ride meme... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51315 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:58:05 +0000 kaputnik 51315@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX5YsU8sir4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX5YsU8sir4</a></p> <p>Could also go on Tron wheel thread </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51304 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:12:48 +0000 wingpig 51304@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was something on a television the other day which looked to be for either an insurance or mortgage provider which featured (not connected to the main plot theme of the advertisment) the chief 'customer' protagonist's pretend advert daughter wheeling a bike out of shot in the background. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51303 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:57:42 +0000 wee folding bike 51303@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yellow Pages ad, 1983. Judging by the caution lines the kid goes the wrong way up the street.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCUN8eJancQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCUN8eJancQ</a></p> <p>And let's not forget the Queen poster. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51286 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:47:14 +0000 Darkerside 51286@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bit of a cheat, but there's the skoda tdf one, which I think is actually pretty good... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNunotJ14o8&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNunotJ14o8&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51285 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:21:15 +0000 kaputnik 51285@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I saw a (I think) McDonalds poster in a bus shelter on Dundee Street this afternoon advertising some sort of processed chicken and breadcrumb snack. Advert appeared to be bauble on a Christmas tree featuring Santa riding a bicycle.</p> <p>No, I didn't understand it either. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51284 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:50:27 +0000 Roibeard 51284@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>it's for a burger chain.</em></p> <p>Ah, now seen this.</p> <p>Nicely inclusive, tandem, trailers (load and child), lidded and non-lidded, trike. <strike>Anyone spot a recumbent?</strike></p> <p>Just found it on YouTube, on freeze frame nothing "stranger" than the upright trike...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51253 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:44:56 +0000 crowriver 51253@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah, that video's soundtrack is out of sync and misses the brilliant punchline. Here's another version with the final line intact. Classic.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnJk6bkjgko" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnJk6bkjgko</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51245 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:51:43 +0000 tammytroot 51245@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What was the one where huge loads of cyclists were following (a supposedly) low emission car? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51244 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:06:12 +0000 custard 51244@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMYZyUygW6Y" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMYZyUygW6Y</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51243 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:46:25 +0000 druidh 51243@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm failing to see the problem? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4828#post-51239 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:31:03 +0000 Uberuce 51239@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...and it's for a burger chain. </p> <p>Do I:</p> <p>a) Laugh<br /> 2) Cry<br /> Thirdly) Watch even less telly than I already do? </p>