When Bruce Reid came out to join Merv Hughes, whose handlebar moustache was bristling with the indignity of impending defeat, Australia still needed 19 runs to make England bat again.
So did Harvey, whose thick handlebar mustache is considered the team's best.
Step forward Brighton-based Aussie doom merchant Nick Cave, whose luxuriant handlebar mo' ("more badass than a volcano fighting an earthquake," according to one admirer) also has its own Facebook page – and, with 5,712 "likes", can plausibly claim to be the new No 1.
Fushin, whose A.T.V. also had sharp handlebars that could cause injury, agreed in May to a voluntary recall of the models marketed for children.
Pep talk over, he rode back home, carrying on his handlebars the boy whose feet were bleeding because his shoes were too small.
Organised by the Handlebar Club of Great Britain (whose members must possess "a hirsute appendage of the upper lip, with graspable extremities"), the contest will showcase the breadth of facial hair talent out there.
Mr. Redlegs is an old-fashioned gent with a handlebar mustache and pillbox cap whose likeness appears on the left sleeve of the Reds' home jerseys.
Carey, a straight-talking, dollars and cents kind of executive whose only obvious extravagance is his remarkable handlebar mustache, immediately raised doubts about Myspace, stating what many outside observers considered obvious.
Mr. Hagman, whose snowy white eyebrows twist upward like the tip of a handlebar mustache, is all bad, all the time, without the mitigating insecurities and vestigial family loyalties that made J. R. stand out in the first place.
For someone whose professional posture demands that he arch his spine and crouch low over the handlebars, as though hiding from the wind, Wiggins is remarkably laid back, and he has the outline to match.
