De colores has been recorded by many different artists, including Los Lobos, Joan Baez, Raffi, Nana Mouskouri, Tish Hinojosa, Arlo Guthrie, José-Luis Orozco, Justo Lamas, Baldemar Velasquez, Tara Strong and Rachael Cantu ; as well as being referred to in the Flobots song "Handlebars"
The Tube is a dance club themed after the London Underground, complete with white subway tile, subway map carpet, and handlebars at the booths.
This is less important in walking jackets since when walking on land the arms usually point down away from the rain; but this nuisance can happen in motorcycling whenever the arms holding the handlebars point forward into a wet headwind.