Norman Maggs smokes a pipe during a 24 hour time trial

vermooten
vermooten Posts: 2,697
edited July 2008 in The bottom bracket
Fantastic pictures here: http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/timetrial ... al-photos/

People were poor but didn't seem to realise it.
You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

Manchester Wheelers

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  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...my Nan used to be the landlady of the Kings Head at Quendon in Essex, on the E1, and I can remember the North London cyclists, who stayed at the pub, riding out at weekends with their racing wheels on a carrier-one wheel each side of the front wheel. That must have been in the late 50's, early 60's. Those pictures brought back that childhood memory... :)
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • tejvancycling
    tejvancycling Posts: 3
    vermooten wrote:

    People were poor but didn't seem to realise it.

    MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

    GC: A cup ' COLD tea.

    EI: Without milk or sugar.

    TG: OR tea!

    Monty Python's Yorkshireman sketch. :)

    The photos are certainly evocative of a 'golden era' of cycling.
  • geoff_ss
    geoff_ss Posts: 1,201
    Very evocative pictures. The last one of my late friend Mick Potts isn't very flattering (he was much better looking in real life :)) but it certainly illustrates the pain and pleasure (?) of bike racing.

    I don't suppose there'll be any pipe-smoking competitors in the '24' at the weekend.

    Geoff
    Old cyclists never die; they just fit smaller chainrings ... and pedal faster
  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    Great pictures, instantly transported back to my youth. Is Alf Engers the greatest rider no one (outside the sport) has ever heard of? Apart from Woodburn, who out of those pictured (and still with us) is racing? Eddie Atkins? John French?
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    mm1 wrote:
    Eddie Atkins? John French?
    John is still winning, let alone riding!
    http://www.peterboroughcyclingclub.co.u ... iew/273/2/

    Eddie Adkins was certainly still racing last year as I've seen him on results sheets
    It's a Lifestyle! -+-+- Coggan Training Levels
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    The picture with the kids watching the bikes go past is great.
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

    PTP Runner Up 2015
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    I love the three on a triplet, although on a closer look it seems to have a spare chainset
    - obviously it's a quadruplet with 3 people and a load of camping gear on...
    Must have had girderwork rather than butted tubes.
  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    Bronzie wrote:
    mm1 wrote:
    Eddie Atkins? John French?
    John is still winning, let alone riding!
    http://www.peterboroughcyclingclub.co.u ... iew/273/2/

    Of course! I'll have to enter their open 10 at the end of August, just to watch him come past at great speed.

    Eddie Adkins was certainly still racing last year as I've seen him on results sheets

    Should have remembered the proper spelling of Eddie's surname - pretty sure he caught me in a few TTs around West London at the end of the 1970's (John Woodburn certainly did!)
  • meagain
    meagain Posts: 2,331
    What a pleasure to view - thanks for the link.
    d.j.
    "Cancel my subscription to the resurrection."

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