Favourite folk hero?

heavymental
heavymental Posts: 2,094
edited August 2007 in The bottom bracket
Whos your favourite folk hero? From films, real life, songs...anywhere. I thought of this after realising Kowalski posts here! (cycle couriers thread)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/

He's got to be up there I think.

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  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...King Arthur...Robin Hood...Billy the Kid...Douglas Bader...Tommy Atkins...Pablo Piccaso...Nelson Mandela...Lenny Bruce
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • MattBlackBigBoysBMX
    MattBlackBigBoysBMX Posts: 398
    Guy Fawkes. :twisted:
    Wheelies ARE cool.

    Zaskar X
  • MrKawamura
    MrKawamura Posts: 192
    Dick Turpin, or maybe Ned Kelly, no the little dutch boy of finger in dike fame.
  • ArDee
    ArDee Posts: 156
    Originally by MattBlackBigBoysBMX
    Guy Fawkes. :twisted:

    The only person to enter parliament with honest intentions. :lol:
    Little by little, one by one, the Penguins are stealing my sanity.
  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...Forrest Gump...Bilbo Baggins...Merlin
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • kaacp
    kaacp Posts: 93
    ChrisLS wrote:
    ...King Arthur...Robin Hood...Billy the Kid...Douglas Bader...Tommy Atkins...Pablo Piccaso...Nelson Mandela...Lenny Bruce

    ...Forrest Gump...Bilbo Baggins...Merlin

    Your taste is eclectic, at least, Chris!

    My nominee is Cúchulainn.
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    Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
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  • gpx001
    gpx001 Posts: 107
    I'll plump for King Arthur and Alfred the Great
    Fuelled by rage - I would rather it be by flapjack
  • jibi
    jibi Posts: 857
    Bill Nickson. the last Englishman to win Milk Race (Tour of Britain) by 5 seconds

    I wonder if he was clean :(

    george

    https://picasaweb.google.com/georgeidf50
  • Noodley
    Noodley Posts: 1,725
    jibi wrote:
    Bill Nickson. the last Englishman to win Milk Race (Tour of Britain) by 5 seconds

    I wonder if he was clean :(

    george

    I'm sure he showered after it :lol:
  • peejay78
    peejay78 Posts: 3,378
    michael foot.

    jk galbraith.

    lonnie donegan.
    http://traumradfahren.wordpress.com/
  • mondobongo
    mondobongo Posts: 13
    Joe Strummer need I say anymore
  • georgee
    georgee Posts: 537
    obviously Kriss Akabusi
  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,094
    And Chris Eubank!
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Being born and dragged-up in Mansfield, it's got to be Robin Hood!
    Remember that you are an Englishman and thus have won first prize in the lottery of life.
  • MattBlackBigBoysBMX
    MattBlackBigBoysBMX Posts: 398
    Also, everyones favourite puritanical despot; Oliver Cromwell, just for the excellent quote:

    "Put your trust in God - my boys, and keep your powder dry". :wink:
    Wheelies ARE cool.

    Zaskar X
  • stage_fright
    stage_fright Posts: 218
    DCI Gene Hunt...

    the man of a million one-liners:

    This case is going as fast as a bunch of spastics in a magnet factory...

    He's got fingers in more pies than a leper on a cookery course..

    Don't move you're surrounded by armed b*****ds
    Chocolate makes your clothes shrink
  • cycologist
    cycologist Posts: 721
    Joss Naylor, Wasdale shephard and string vest clad fell runner of some worth.

    Don Whillans, mountaineer,streetfighter and hard drinking raconteur.

    Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Bluesmen who went down to the crossroads at midnight and sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his musical talent.
    Two wheels good,four wheels bad
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Bob Monkhouse, Yoda, Mr Benn, John Ruskin, Tricky, Sam Fox, Clive of India & Boris Johnston. Not necessarily in that order!
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    He may not be that local, but within cycling distance - it's got to be Kirkpatrick MacMillan, inventor of the modern bicycle! The man's a genius.
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • cabledonuts
    cabledonuts Posts: 121
    Goscinny and Uderzo for creating the Asterix books but if we can have fictional characters then all of the characters in those books. Pure genius - Getafix the druid, Fulliautomatix the blacksmith, Chief Vitalstatistix the village chief, Dogmatix - Obelix's pet dog, Geriatrix the oldest inhabitant of the village. The only books I would read as a kid.
    "Seve Ballesteros, the Spanish bull. A friend of mine said recently; 'What do you get if you cross a ballerina and a b(a)stard?' His answer, Ballesteros."
  • dangerousjules
    dangerousjules Posts: 243
    big daddy, how i miss saturday afternoon wrestling :D
    dangerous jules.

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