Bicycling 1986

[YahudaMoon]

Edit 1989

Found this thought Id share as I havnt seen it before

A decent frame cost £600 and a decent bike £2000, the only British company still making bike components was Brooks saddles, cycling in the UK was seen as cranky though on the continent romantic and heroic

Nothings changed then

 

[srw]

Wasn't Sturmey Archer still British in 1989? And to me in 1989 (and most of my fellow undergraduates) cycling was just a way of getting to lectures. There were a few eccentrics who belonged to something called the "Road club", but they really were cranky.

 

[glenn forger]

I bought a Peugeot Savoiie in 1987, a good touring bike, cost about £600 complete.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

And Brompton were making bikes.

 

[Diggs]

Cycling in 1986? To school and back on the Sun Solo

What we did before the Cree torch - packing two "D" batteries in that bad boy

 

[YahudaMoon]

I like the way the frame builders for Condor weld the frame, so its correct

Though Raleigh cold set it afterwards, even on the top end frames

I know who Id rather have a frame from back in the day

 

[Herbie]

Cycling in 1986? To school and back on the Sun Solo View attachment 35273
What we did before the Cree torch - packing two "D" batteries in that bad boy

I had a Sun Solo.....good bike and did two cycling tours on in it in France

 

[Deleted member 1258]

If my memory serves me well my bikes in 1989 were these 2

I built this one around 1985

 

[DiddlyDodds]

I was 22 and it was all about motorbikes then, it was another 10 years before i had to buy a house that the motorbike went and cycling came back.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I was 22 and it was all about motorbikes then, it was another 10 years before i had to buy a house that the motorbike went and cycling came back.

I moved away from a motorbike and back to cycling in 1979, similar reason though, new girlfriend, getting serious about her and wanting to buy a house, I was living in a bedsit at the time.