LordMarv
Active Member
- Location
- Montana, USA
A more relaxed time, and look, no kit and no Strava!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QPkT0paGEnQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QPkT0paGEnQ
Cycling in Britain in 1955
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welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Nice. A year before I was born as well. Excellent film.
jay clock
Massive member
- Location
- Hampshire UK
been up here before but always worth another viewing. thanks
Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
Absolutely wonderful - especially the music.
No one wore helmets then as heads were protected by a thick layer of brylcreem!
No one wore helmets then as heads were protected by a thick layer of brylcreem!
Peteaud
Veteran
- Location
- South Somerset
The 50's, best decade for fins n chrome, music and now it seems, cycles as well.
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/cycling-in-1955.134395/
Another thread already on this - Mods please merge
Another thread already on this - Mods please merge
jay clock
Massive member
- Location
- Hampshire UK
Why? This is publicising to a new audience....
wiggydiggy
Guru
Saved to watch later, ta muchly!
toekneep
Senior Member
- Location
- Lancashire
I've seen that loads of times and never realised it was the year I was born. I'd love to live in that era. (But preferably at the more than the age of one)
Coincidently the first time I did the Manchester to Blackpool my number was 1955, how about that!
Coincidently the first time I did the Manchester to Blackpool my number was 1955, how about that!
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LordMarv
Active Member
- Location
- Montana, USA
No one wore helmets then as heads were protected by a thick layer of brylcreem!
LOL...wonder if that stuff will ever make a comeback? I remember my dad used the stuff.
LOL...wonder if that stuff will ever make a comeback? I remember my dad used the stuff.
wiggydiggy
Guru
1) How good were train companies in 1955 for bikes!
2) Good mixed group, not the beardy weirdey I've come to expect from CTC these days*
The bikes - any one of those could be used today, in comparison the cars of the time (of which there were few) look ancient.
And lastly near the end of the film, there's a little girl on a pull along back bike behind her father(?) - I thought those were a modern invention, unfortunately the film doesnt quite show the combo of adult/half bike they are riding.
Excellent film, makes me want to go an ride.....
* Ps I have a beard, and am weird
2) Good mixed group, not the beardy weirdey I've come to expect from CTC these days*
The bikes - any one of those could be used today, in comparison the cars of the time (of which there were few) look ancient.
And lastly near the end of the film, there's a little girl on a pull along back bike behind her father(?) - I thought those were a modern invention, unfortunately the film doesnt quite show the combo of adult/half bike they are riding.
Excellent film, makes me want to go an ride.....
* Ps I have a beard, and am weird
robjh
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire - almost Essex
Wonderful stuff. I wonder if the motorists of the South Midlands complained about dozens of arrogant cyclists (and Londoners at that) clogging their roads on that day?
A few points noted :
'Cycling without a map is like new potatoes without mint sauce' - quite so!
The road below Kenilworth castle still floods.
Derelict-looking Foxton locks, long before renovation.
Naseby battlefield without the A14 running through it.
And the idea that people have 'ranks and stations' - some people still believe that but we don't say it so often these days. Happily cyclists were clearly ahead of the times and chose to ignore them even then!
A few points noted :
'Cycling without a map is like new potatoes without mint sauce' - quite so!
The road below Kenilworth castle still floods.
Derelict-looking Foxton locks, long before renovation.
Naseby battlefield without the A14 running through it.
And the idea that people have 'ranks and stations' - some people still believe that but we don't say it so often these days. Happily cyclists were clearly ahead of the times and chose to ignore them even then!
byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
I love this film.
When it first reappeared I had vague recollections that I'd seen it before. I spoke to my Mother, and showed her the film, who thought we'd have seen it at the cinema. I was four when it was made and we used to go as a family nearly every week in the fifties so it is quite possible I really had seen it before.
Gosh! I feel old!!!!
When it first reappeared I had vague recollections that I'd seen it before. I spoke to my Mother, and showed her the film, who thought we'd have seen it at the cinema. I was four when it was made and we used to go as a family nearly every week in the fifties so it is quite possible I really had seen it before.
Gosh! I feel old!!!!
- Location
- Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Like that.
The roads are so quiet.
I want to go cycling in 1955.
The roads are so quiet.
I want to go cycling in 1955.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Try riding from, say, just after midnight on a Friday night until breakfast time on a Saturday morning.Like that.
The roads are so quiet.
