Delicious youtube video: Dutch cycling in the 1950's inside.

[betty swollocks]

here.
Great music too and not a helmet in sight!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Hey - That was interesting. Wot were the ladies doing holding hands tho?

 

[Baggy]

Are they SPD clogs?
Good stuff.

 

[palinurus]

Some serious workbikes there. Good stuff.

 

[redcogs]

Images that could be templates for a far saner and safer world than that we currently occupy.

Imagine no 4x4s, very few motor vehicles, fit people in a healthy environment.

Got to be near the ideal?

 

[jig-sore]

great video, some really cool bikes and trailers.

reminds me of this video of the UK in the 50's. it was filmed in and around rugby so i recognise a lot of it...


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP1KxPjh4RM

 

[Over The Hill]

Lovely! Thanks for posting that BS

We went to the Netherlands last summer camping and it really is still a lot like that in many ways.
No helmets
Young people on bikes (over the age of 12 and younger than 30)
Lots and lots of bikes.
Did not see builders on bikes but certainly business men in suits and girls dressed for the office.

One sunday we cycled to the beach - car park was almost empty but a sea of bikes along the front. It was such a lovely atmosphere.
I think they have given up on wood as a material for footware though.

We camped

 

[Campfire]

That was lovely, only thing is the video is jerky & keeps stopping. I always get the updates for Real Player when they come out, so don't know what's the matter.

I've seen the CTC one before. What about that BBC commentary hey?

Mind you, not much later than that I would have been going on club runs where the riders looked very similar - not a bit of Lycra in sight. I've got quite a few old pics from my Dad's where they look like that - one of them has a young Johnny Helms in it.

 

[Piemaster]

Hey - That was interesting. Wot were the ladies doing holding hands tho?

Thought I spotted a couple of blokes towards the end doing the same thing as well.

Anyone spot anyone in the entire film that looked even remotely overweight?

 

[Globalti]

The float at 4:55 is interesting - I wonder if this was a demonstration of thanks for the Marshall Plan?

Yes - found it: http://www.ena.lu/marshall-plan-netherlands-1951-020702829.html

 

[Davidc]

I just love some of the trailers in the NL one, and can't believe that some men wore ties while out on a leisure ride in the British one!

Oh to have as little motor traffic as there was in the 1950s.

 

[dellzeqq]

a delight - many thanks

 

[just jim]

Without wishing to sound misty eyed and unrealistic, and that I want to take "choice" away from our hyper-me-now-culture of instant gratification, can we please have that here?

 

[Happiness Stan]

Hey - That was interesting. Wot were the ladies doing holding hands tho?

They have very liberal attitudes in Holland

 

[Happiness Stan]

Images that could be templates for a far saner and safer world than that we currently occupy.

Imagine no 4x4s, very few motor vehicles, fit people in a healthy environment.

Got to be near the ideal?

I agree, but to be fair the Dutch also drink coffee and smoke like bas*ards.