A bit of 1930's cycling style

[Hilldodger]

Go on, we could do you a BOGOF deal

 

[Campfire]

Wonderful pictures Baggy. I have loads as my Grandad was a founder member of a cycling club & I have pictures of him, my Gran & my Dad (when he was 8) so they'd be around 1928. If I get around to it I'll post some of them. I have a whole folder of very old cycling cuttings, from even 1910, that my Grandad put in a sort of home made album.
If there are any more, will you post them, as I'm sure there will be lots of people interested.

 

[Campfire]

A bit of 1930s cycling style

Excellent! I wonder if, like that couple in many a Patterson picture, they went on camping holidays and managed to fit a whole set of camping and cooking gear, plus tools, a change of clothes, a towel and a washing line, all in two small saddlebags?

Here they are, having afternoon tea.

Ah, that's lovely. I have a set of 4 table mats with Patterson drawings which were given to me by Maurice Cumberworth, organizer of The Milk Race during the 1970s. I used to work for him from time to time when he was doing the Harrogate Cycling weeks.

 

[Baggy]

If I can find any more, I'll definitely post them

 

[wafflycat]

Seems to be quite a sunny day, so why are they wearing their capes? Your grandparents weren't rubber fetishists, were they?

That would explain it... the attraction to Chuffers... the genetic trait of being attracted to rubber-lovers.

 

[NickM]

Ah, that's lovely. I have a set of 4 table mats with Patterson drawings which were given to me by Maurice Cumberworth, organizer of The Milk Race during the 1970s. I used to work for him from time to time when he was doing the Harrogate Cycling weeks.

Notice how they carry a proper teapot and saucers!

I do hope that you'll post your pics, Campfire - in fact, I wonder if this might not be a good candidate for a "sticky" thread? Just for pictures earlier than (say) 1960?

 

[Hover Fly]

My father, left front,

Second from right, back row.

 

[Glow worm]

Some great pics in this thread. Reminded me of my grandparents who durng the 1930's regularly used to ride a tandem from Ilford in Essex to Bath- in a day!

They must have been good days for cycling. For example, the best facilities for carrying bikes by train I've ever come across was a couple of weeks ago. Huge guards van- plenty of room for oodles of bikes. It was 1920's rolling stock on the North Norfolk steam railway! Brilliant it was too- far better than anything nowadays. (I was pottering along to Fakenham from Yarmouth using various trains en-route). I can't help thinking we're going backwards these days.

 

[Baggy]

Excellent! The cape-wearing group shot was obviously a popular one

 

[Keith Oates]

Excellent! The cape-wearing group shot was obviously a popular one

Perhaps it was the early days for wearing lycra shorts and the men were a little shy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rh100]

Found this photo amongst a load belonging to my Nan, I think it was her's and Grandad's, I will have to ask her. The anderson shelter suggests it's 40's or 50's.

 

[Black Sheep]

Wonder if my wife's grandparents have any pics of them, I'm lead to believe they went on their honeymoon on a tandem and did a fair bit of cycle touring a few years later.

 

[Kirstie]

Leaping forward a few years, here is an old pic of one of my work colleagues in a road race c.1965. The guy in the pic did really well as a junior, competing internationally. Anyway, I just love the pic...although its come up a bit small...

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Leaping forward a few years, here is an old pic of one of my work colleagues in a road race c.1965. The guy in the pic did really well as a junior, competing internationally. Anyway, I just love the pic...although its come up a bit small...

He looks a bit like a young Robert Millar!

 

[ChrisKH]

I must get my father in law's bike pictures scanned. Some great Luxembourg road race ones I've got.