Classic clip of a cycling family

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Hi all

I don't think this has been posted before, but I happened upon this charming clip of a family out for a cycle

We'll all be doing it soon!

 

[YahudaMoon]

Wow

Family planning , health and safety did not exist in 1961 then

Bring it on.

 

[Hebe]

That's excellent! Thanks for the link

 

[gaz]

A side car on a bicycle. Awesome.

 

[MossCommuter]

Where are those children now?

C'mon... show yourselves

 

[Ian Cooper]

That's great! Love the lame jokes from the narrator. I too wonder where the kids are now. It would be nice to see if they carried on the cycling tradition, though somehow I doubt it, as cycling has been going through some dark days in the last few decades, and is, in my opinion at least, at its nadir right now. Nowadays, there seems to be no chance of seeing such 'jolly hockey sticks' style coverage of cycling in the media or in the public consciousness - it's all simmering hatred of cyclists, coverage of crashes, and efforts to get us all off the roads and segregated so that we can't get in the way of the 'real' road users who have a license, who don't break any laws and who pay road tax.

 

[Dave Davenport]

That's great! Love the lame jokes from the narrator. I too wonder where the kids are now. It would be nice to see if they carried on the cycling tradition, though somehow I doubt it, as cycling has been going through some dark days in the last few decades, and is, in my opinion at least, at its nadir right now. Nowadays, there seems to be no chance of seeing such 'jolly hockey sticks' style coverage of cycling in the media or in the public consciousness - it's all simmering hatred of cyclists, coverage of crashes, and efforts to get us all off the roads and segregated so that we can't get in the way of the 'real' road users who have a license, who don't break any laws and who pay road tax.

Cheer up mate!

 

[Ian Cooper]

Hey, I'm happy. Nowhere to go from here but up!

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

I know whats missing,a beemer cutting them up.

 

[marshmella]

Wow

Family planning , health and safety did not exist in 1961 then

Bring it on.

It seems to make a mockery of that recent report linking cycling with infertility

 

[skudupnorth]

Bloody hell i want a sidecar !!!! That is just brilliant,thanks for hunting it down.Makes me feel having "just" four kids a little lame now !!!

 

[dellzeqq]

that's how I started off. Six months old, in a sidecar beside my parents' tandem. I'm told we hit forty miles an hour once. Terrifying.

 

[betty swollocks]

Brilliant clip.
Carfree and carefree.

 

[Blue Hills]

Thanks for the clip - I know that site - it's excellent - a real treasure trove - amongst the many oddities a lot of serious historical stuff as well.

thanks again

 

[stephyt]

lol fab vid wonder if there was anything left in the drinking bottle by time it got to the back??