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.
| Top ten styles of moustache | |
|---|---|
| Handlebar – bushy, with small upward pointing ends Mexican – Big and bushy, beginning from the middle of the upper lip and pulled to the side. English – narrow, beginning at the middle of the upper lip the whiskers are very long and pulled to the side, slightly curled; the ends are pointed slightly upward Imperial – whiskers growing from both the upper lip and cheeks, curled upward Freestyle – All moustaches that do not match other classes. The hairs are allowed to start growing from up to a maximum of 1.5 cm beyond the end of the upper lip. Fu Manchu – long, downward pointing ends, generally beyond the chin Horseshoe – a full moustache with vertical extensions from the corners of the lips down to the jawline and resembling an upside-down horseshoe Pencil moustache – narrow, straight and thin as if drawn on by a pencil, closely clipped, outlining the upper lip Toothbrush – thick, but shaved except for about an inch (2.5 cm) in the centre – think Charlie Chaplin Walrus – bushy, hanging down over the lips, often entirely covering the mouth |
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