Cycling Photo Challenge - Entries and Chat

[Dave 123]

Ivybridge. From Stowford paper mill

 

[PeteXXX]

Locks, handles & hinges. Still doing the same job all these years later...

 

[PeteXXX]

And just a handle, as good as it was a century ago..

 

[Oldhippy]

Not the best photo by far but historically the oldest free standing clock tower in the world apparently.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

over 140 years old this beauty:

and a close up of the sign:

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Abbey pumping station opened in 1891, now a museum but the four beam engines contained within all still work.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

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Locks, handles & hinges. Still doing the same job all these years later...

I thought you would have posted a selfie as your first entry

 

[PeteXXX]

I thought you would have posted a selfie as your first entry

Harsh, but fair

 

[yo vanilla]

Hutch BMX had a big although short-lived presence in the BMX world. Hutch was founded in Maryland, USA in 1979 by a bike shop owner and began to design and manufacture their own frames, forks, and handlebars in the USA. These were known to be of the highest quality (and price, in 1981 a Hutch Pro Racer was USD $400 which today is $1303). Eventually production moved to Taiwan, quality dropped off, and the company fell to financial trouble by the end of the 1980's. Here is where it gets a bit fuzzy: the company was sold around this time and eventually died; however it had resurfaced at some point in my city as Hutch Hi-Performance BMX. The listed address on https://hutchbmx.com/ is 712 South Olde Oneida St:

I don't really know what the deal is; the building has looked unoccupied for the last few years as best I can recall. There is no signage anywhere. Yet the website has a 2022 copyright and appears to be running.

 

[gtmet]

Underbridge on the Bristol-Radstock railway line, now history.

Temple Cloud.

 

[FrothNinja]

Above Leadhills. The wagons are diminishing in number as they are cannibalised for parts for the nearby preserved railway

 

[biggs682]

An old road mile stone with good old imperial distances

 

[Oldhippy]

A bit of literature history in these and it is Rupert's centenary year too.

 

[Oldhippy]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as well.

 

[PeteXXX]

@Oldhippy You could win this competition, you know!!
Oh.. Wait..