"Last of the Summer Wine" bike sold.

[Cycleops]

A bike used the series has been sold at auction for £500. It's a Phoenix from the 1950s and has been signed by some of the cast members including Peter Sallis and bill Owen. Anyone on here buy it?

 

[Markymark]

No, I prefer to take rides in the Dales in a modified bath tub with hilarious consequences.

 

[Cycleops]

[QUOTE 3261854, member: 259"]She must have been pretty fit to get up the hills round there on that thing. Is it a Sturmey three gear hub?[/QUOTE]
Maybe when I get get to that age I will also think she's "fit"!

 

[summerdays]

That's not the same bike as in the photo! (Not saying it wasn't used in the series though).

 

[Angry Blonde]

Two different frames

 

[Cycleops]

It's true, I hadn't noticed that. I'm sure @compo would be interested in this. Maybe not enough to fork out £500 though!

 

[compo]

It's true, I hadn't noticed that. I'm sure @compo would be interested in this. Maybe not enough to fork out £500 though!

With the autographs and if the provenance (?) was sure I would pay £500. Well I would if I actually had a free £500 I could fritter away!

 

[glenn forger]

LOTSW is about as funny as cat sick.

 

[compo]

The bicycle was used by Marina and is pictured here.

 

[Cyclopathic]

LOTSW is about as funny as cat sick.

That is just not true. We had a cat that swallowed some tinselly stuff and then threw it up (thankfully) and I can assure you that the resultant puke was a LOT more entertaining than LOTSW. Cat puke with tinsel is definitely funnier.

 

[glenn forger]

Lucky it didn't catch tinselitis.

(That joke is 74% funnier than the entire run of LOTSW, however many thousands of episodes that is. Compo was basically a sex offender, the other soppy old duffers stood around and made trite observations while the studio audience collectively wet themselves, the only thing unfunnier is anything by Carla Lane, which is about as funny as drinking cat sick)

 

[tyred]

I want a red Triumph Herald convertible which has the ability to be driven through hedges by an elderly lady without being damaged.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Lucky it didn't catch tinselitis.

(That joke is 74% funnier than the entire run of LOTSW, however many thousands of episodes that is. Compo was basically a sex offender, the other soppy old duffers stood around and made trite observations while the studio audience collectively wet themselves, the only thing unfunnier is anything by Carla Lane, which is about as funny as drinking cat sick)

True. I'd rather drink cat sick than watch a whole episode of Bread. Comedy to kill oneself by.

 

[Cyclopathic]

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Even without tinsel this is funnier.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Bicycle Bonanza was the only LOTSW episode I ever watched all the way through. Reasonably funny, but it may have been the bicycles.