GuyBoden
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1962 Tyneside Vagabonds CC Reliability Ride - Vintage Cycling
I enjoyed watching this.
I enjoyed watching this.
Winter Cycling 1962
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Smokin Joe
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That should be compulsory viewing for every sportive entrant. How to ride in a disciplined group without looking like a bomb has gone off in the middle of it.
Smokin Joe
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I'm astonished at the total lack of deaths. Not one of the irresponsible sods was wearing a hel.......
Leave it Joe, leave it.
Smokin Joe
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[QUOTE 5065613, member: 9609"]care to explain - I don't ride in groups but curious as to what you are getting at ?[/QUOTE]
Close formation two abreast a few inches from the bike in front. Group riding as it was drilled into youngsters when they joined a club and went on the runs.
Close formation two abreast a few inches from the bike in front. Group riding as it was drilled into youngsters when they joined a club and went on the runs.
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GuyBoden
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Yeah, the Cyclist Special Train is an enjoyable film. I've posted it a while back, but well worth a second viewing.
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/1955-cyclists-bfi-film.220818/
SkipdiverJohn
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Paulus said:
That's something I notice as the most obvious difference between stuff built up to the 1990's compared to now. Weird trend, IMHO, overly-small sloping-top frames combined with overly long seatposts. Why not just have a frame size that more-or-less fits the rider to begin with, and then the saddle height just becomes fine tuning?.
Smokin Joe
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Bike frames have to suit everyone from five foot nothing to six foot plus. There is much more leeway on frame size with a sloping top tube that a horizontal, a far smaller range of sizes are needed to fit all comers. It makes both manufacturing and buying much simpler.
Toshiba Boy
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Excellent, thanks for posting. Must show that to my Dad (79) who was a clubman late fifties/early sixties.
Reminds me, must get a trilby for the commute!
Reminds me, must get a trilby for the commute!
Gravity Aided
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Still pretty much wear that today, myself. I'm no walking advertisement for lycra, though. Need for support hose, which makes trousers a better choice, etc. McLean County Wheelers, some know me as socks, or flat cap, as Mrs. GA found out when looking for me on the course one day.
Gravity Aided
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Reminds me of my Facet Biotour 2000, a large car parts company (Fram) relabeled itself as Facet for a time, and somebody thought it a good idea to have a crack at making bicycles. So they went to a cycle maker in Chatsworth California, who made Scorpion BMX, and asked them to make a few frames for them. Mine is a 65cm frame, and from the numbers of frames sold, and the final distribution(mostly to company employees) I'm surprised they went to the trouble of making an XL sized frame. I don't think there were many, and mines' the only one that size I've seen, ever. Must have cost them far to much too pursue this venture.
