Coventry transport museum?

[biggs682]

Edie Atkins was a lovely lady, She was a regular on the Coventry Road Club rides when I first joined the club. A small slight figure she was in her seventies when I first met her. I remember a 50 in four we did and taking it in turns pushing her up the steeper climbs. She was killed crossing the A45 at Ryton, a dangerous cross roads where we used to cross from Ryton heading for Woolston, there's a roundabout there now but it's no safer.

She used to race with my parents and often set quicker times than Dad did by a big margin

 

[Blue Hills]

I realise it's a bit of "how long is a piece of string" question but can anyone tell me what might be a reasonable amount of time to do the museum justice?

 

[Milkfloat]

I realise it's a bit of "how long is a piece of string" question but can anyone tell me what might be a reasonable amount of time to do the museum justice?

I would plan at least 3 hours of you want to see everything. If you are going with hyperactive kids, you will get a round in an hour and a half.

 

[Drago]

A full morning, best part of an afternoon. Its brilliant, and while donations are voluntary you'll feel like slipping a tenner in the box at the end.

 

[ColinJ]

I concentrated on the bikes, but there were a lot of fine old cars and some flashy new ones. Oh, and the old motorbikes were good too. I'm just not a petrolhead ...

My feeling looking at the old bikes, motorbikes and cars was that despite their primitive technology ...

... they were brave attempts to solve the pressing transportation problems of their time.

The new cars are made using amazing modern technology but really have nothing much to do with transportation! You don't buy one of those new Jags to go to work in, or to take the family to the shops. In fact, apart from trying to impress other people, I can't see what they are actually for! Congested roads and low speed limits mean that they will probably never (legally) be driven at even half of their maximum speed ...

 

[Blue Hills]

The new cars are made using amazing modern technology but really have nothing much to do with transportation! You don't buy one of those new Jags to go to work in, or to take the family to the shops. In fact, apart from trying to impress other people, I can't see what they are actually for! Congested roads and low speed limits mean that they will probably never (legally) be driven at even half of their maximum speed ...

Good points colin but (apart from the planet pollution issue) you could probably say similar things about the carbon wonders ridden by a fair few mamils, and possibly a few on here - not used for transportation as such, not much use for shopping, folk delighting in the design and technology and possibly in impressing folk, never going to travel at anywhere near their designed for speed

 

[ColinJ]

Good points colin but (apart from the planet pollution issue) you could probably say similar things about the carbon wonders ridden by a fair few mamils, and possibly a few on here - not used for transportation as such, not much use for shopping, folk delighting in the design and technology and possibly in impressing folk, never going to travel at anywhere near their designed for speed

Admittedly, my old Cannondale is virtually the same as the bike ridden by pros in the early 2000s, but we won't go there!