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Post by franco on Oct 2, 2020 16:25:52 GMT
An interesting video about a cycling club that would commute out of the city by train with their bicycles then spend a day cycle touring elsewhere.
The roads look sublime compared to today’s standards.
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Post by oldroadietehachapi on Oct 2, 2020 18:20:23 GMT
I wish I could do that today! I also wish 1950s USA took cycling more seriously. At the time bicycles were mostly considered toys or transportation for children. Serious cycling such as cycle touring was rare. Cycling did take off in the 1960s and 70s. In my college years most students wanted to ride across the country and camp next to the road.
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Post by brianbutler on Oct 2, 2020 20:20:50 GMT
I wish I could do that today! I also wish 1950s USA took cycling more seriously. At the time bicycles were mostly considered toys or transportation for children. Serious cycling such as cycle touring was rare. Cycling did take off in the 1960s and 70s. In my college years most students wanted to ride across the country and camp next to the road.
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Post by dracco on Oct 6, 2020 16:48:39 GMT
Corduroy shorts and knee-length woollen socks! Strangely reminiscent of my first school uniform ca.1957: I was never aware that adults wore those too. By choice!
And the plus-fours!!
Today everyone would be wearing skin-tight lycra!
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Post by oldroadietehachapi on Oct 6, 2020 17:03:44 GMT
Corduroy shorts and knee-length woollen socks! Strangely reminiscent of my first school uniform ca.1957: I was never aware that adults wore those too. By choice! And the plus-fours!! Today everyone would be wearing skin-tight lycra! Such clothing for cycling is rare these days; in San Luis Obispo they have (used to have?) a tweed ride event.
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Post by franco on Oct 6, 2020 19:55:51 GMT
Corduroy shorts and knee-length woollen socks! Strangely reminiscent of my first school uniform ca.1957: I was never aware that adults wore those too. By choice! And the plus-fours!! Today everyone would be wearing skin-tight lycra! The half of Mild and cheese sarnie when they stopped off at the pub made me smile. I hope it was Chestnut Mild, used to love that stuff  |
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Post by Jem on Oct 7, 2020 19:16:39 GMT
A half a pale ale or chestnut mild and a cheese and onion sarnie sounds like it would hit the spot right about now.
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Post by theformeremployee on Oct 7, 2020 20:49:48 GMT
Organised by the CTC - Reg Shaw was the Secretary and he's the man in spectacles 0.55 in, issuing tickets.
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Post by whippet on Oct 13, 2020 19:54:02 GMT
I love that video
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Post by ks1u on Oct 14, 2020 4:29:25 GMT
What a great video. It's been a while since I've seen a cyclist biking with a necktie or stopping for a cigarette break.
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