Even bicycles are wearing moustaches this Movember

A resurgence of interest in traditional cycling brands and events coincides with this year’s Movember to make it the ideal time to embrace your inner gentlemen and grow the ultimate bicycle accessory, the handlebar moustache.

The annual charity event Movember, which requires participants to remain unshaven throughout the month of November, offers some choice moustache-related merchandise on its excellent website, but surely none can rival the bicycle frame mascot pictured on the American cycle shop Candy Cranks.

Calling all mo bros

If you are a sporting magnificent moustache a little over halfway through Movember, post a picture of you and your bicycle – best set of whiskers will win a prize.

If you are not a hirsute cyclist, worry not. For an officer in the Edwardian era to shave his moustache was tantamount to a breach of discipline, but Winston Churchill gave up on his own struggle to grow one while a second lieutenant in the Queen’s Own Hussars.

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