Cycling in 1955

[EltonFrog]

Don't forget the plus 4's and the polished brogues! I'm surprised one of them didn't have a pipe in his/her mouth as well!

One did, one of the cyclists when they were checking the bikes at Rugby station was bending over his bike smoking his pipe.

Edit @ 5:40 "luggage properly secured" Bloke wearing a tie smoking a pipe!

 

[Archie_tect]

My M+D used to cycle together until my dad bought a second hand scooter with a screen and panniers in the mid 50s.

 

[ColinJ]

My M+D used to cycle together until my dad bought a second hand scooter with a screen and panniers in the mid 50s.

My dad had a motorbike and sidecar. He rode up to Oban with us ** in the sidecar when I was a baby.

This was before the M6 was built so we had to go up the A6 over Shap Fell where we got caught in a thunderstorm. My dad ended up near-hyopthermic!

We 'ad it tough in them days!

(** 'Us' = my mum, 5 year old sister, baby me, and the luggage, all squeezed in together!)

 

[broadway]

Willesden Junction! I used to live there.

It's Watford Junction

 

[dellzeqq]

Clive Oxx was on the '55 ride and the 2005 re-run
http://www.aqvm78.dsl.pipex.com/SWLDA/SouWester/1999/Oxx.htm

 

[ColinJ]

They probably don't have the right rolling stock to run a train like that again, but if they did, how much would it cost to charter one?

I would imagine that you could get about 500 cyclists on one train, if they could organise the bike storage.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Clive Oxx was on the '55 ride and the 2005 re-run
http://www.aqvm78.dsl.pipex.com/SWLDA/SouWester/1999/Oxx.htm

Cool name - Oxx!

 

[Dayvo]

Cool name - Oxx!

Makes up for 'Clive', doesn't it.

Clive: a nobber's name.

 

[biggs682]

my parents cycled in those times and some of the tails still make me laugh , ie during a 24hr team race they tied inner tubes and tubs together to make a tow rope to pull 1 team member along for last couple of hours !

 

[Leaway2]

didn't have a pipe in his/her mouth as well!

5:40 FIFY

Edit: Damn you @CarlP beat me to it.

 

[Leaway2]

"Distressingly fatigued "

 

[EltonFrog]

It's Watford Junction

"collect a number of cyclists at Willesden Junction and at Watford..."

 

[Dayvo]

Regardless of 'how many times this shows up', I enjoyed it!

Well before my time, but I'd liked to have had a modern road bike and cycled during the 50s on those quiet roads.

 

[Fnaar]

15:38 ...the sleeping woman... I'm in love

 

[tyred]

15:38 ...the sleeping woman... I'm in love

Sorry to disappoint but she's probably dead by now.