Leo’s bike secrets

It doesn’t get any greener than this: Leo DiCaprio, legs pedaling furiously as he weaves his way through the London traffic. He’s probably on the way to a meeting with someone who makes wind farms for Africa, who knows? Hell, it’s green enough for the papers to pick up on it sharpish when he got snapped by paps a couple of weeks back.

Wraparound shades clamped over his dial: baseball cap underneath his helmet (an interesting look in itself – perhaps it prevents the inevitable mad hair when the hard hat comes off?).

It’s a mark of celebrity-about-town. We’re very glad that Mr DiCaprio chooses to travel round the capital on two wheels when he’s over. In fact we’re so glad, we’ve decided to make a little investigation into his film career. Come closer, conspiracy nuts.

You see, we reckon that you can draw a line from Leo’s very earliest film work all the way to the present that involves bikes. Honestly. There’s a Dan-Brown-Style mystical subtext here if you really dig down for it.

How about an easy starter: 2008’s plaudit-winning love-in Revolutionary Road. Revolution: as in, wheel going round? It’s almost too easy. Just two

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