Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I still have that exact same Bladk and Decker drill.
1976, police warning for short mudguards
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Punkawallah
Über Member
I was gifted a Rudge Whitworth with such a panel painted out. Their grandad used it during the war for poaching, and didn’t want to be noticed :-)
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
Cycling Manual 22nd edition. 1950:
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
The white patch requirement was dropped in 1955.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
The reason I raised the white patch thing above was that perhaps it implied that mudguards were mandatory. After all if you must have a patch on your mudguards, then you must have mudguards, no?
Seemingly not. According to the book posted by @youngoldbloke above you were required to have a 12 sq in patch and "a white mudguard will meet the case" but it doesn't necessarily have to be a mudguard. If you have something else that "meets the case" (dunno what - a white square with side 3.46" would do) then you don't need to have mudguards.
Seemingly not. According to the book posted by @youngoldbloke above you were required to have a 12 sq in patch and "a white mudguard will meet the case" but it doesn't necessarily have to be a mudguard. If you have something else that "meets the case" (dunno what - a white square with side 3.46" would do) then you don't need to have mudguards.
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
In the diagram above, the other option is to have a white disc fitted instead.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Well spotted. I missed that.
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
At that time I think it was it was accepted that all bikes were fitted with mudguards anyway, except perhaps bikes customised for racing. It was unthinkable that bikes came any other way. Why not? It was the sensible thing to do. All the ads for bikes in the Manual - sporting or otherwise were shown with mudguards, some easily removable for racing.
- Location
- Inside my skull
This is the tall tales thread
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Which would need to be a fraction under 4" diameter to be 12 sq inches area.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
"All thinking cyclists" oppose the principle that you must have a rear light to show your presence?
Once a Wheeler
…always a wheeler
Frank Colden, Camberley Wheelers, 1962, no chain guard, no mudguards:
Maybe you ran into the local verbal warning Tzar.
Maybe you ran into the local verbal warning Tzar.
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
He was a rebel, far too fast for the local Bobby on his Velocette Motorcycle, in fact he would keep turning left when followed and end up behind the said law enforcement officer, using his motorcycle to draft behind for training purposes
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
They didn't have cyclechat to thrash these matters out over 47 page threads.
