Inside Britains Biggest Bike Factory (BBC2)

[Dave7]

Hope this is the right section to post this.......I cant see any other thread so....apologies if it has been posted elsewhere.
BBC 2 20:00 tonight.
I assume its the Brompton factory....they make 150 bikes per day.
We watched the 2 previous episodes (crisps & baked beans) and I kid you not....they were nind blowing.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Thanks for the tip off. I saw some of the beans one. Yum.

 

[johnnyb47]

Just put on to record. Thank you buddy :-)

 

[AyJay]

Cheers for that. Will give it a look.

 

[Houthakker]

Was well worth a watch, even if just for the phrase "Feminine organs of marital necessity". Don't hear that everyday!

 

[Chris S]

I got bored. Probably the most interesting thing was the frames making a 300 mile round-trip to Wales to be powder coated. You'd have thought they could have found somewhere nearer.

 

[Globalti]

Ill watch it on catch up to see if the factory is as medieval as the bike factory where I worked as a student.

 

[RichK]

I quite enjoyed it in a throwaway hour of TV sort of way.

 

[Phil Fouracre]

Planning to watch it, just don't know if I can cope with Greg Wallace for an hour, without hitting something!!!

 

[midlife]

Do Brompton's have any decals? I never saw any.

Love the dismount from the Penny Farthing

Shaun

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Planning to watch it, just don't know if I can cope with Greg Wallace for an hour, without hitting something!!!

yes I didn't last night just because of him and his odious to me persona but feel i should really just to see.

and I'm intrigued by the notion of organs of matrimonial necessity mentioned on the other thread on this show.

 

[Dirk]

.......Love the dismount from the Penny Farthing
Shaun

That was my old mate Douggie Pinkerton. He usually pops up on most programmes involving old bikes.

 

[robgul]

That was my old mate Douggie Pinkerton. He usually pops up on most programmes involving old bikes.

I know Doug - he's repaired a few frames for me ... didn't recognise him to start with - usually wears a T-shirt and jeans! He's carrying on the fascination with old bikes that his father, John, had eons ago.

Rob

 

[Dirk]

I know Doug - he's repaired a few frames for me ... didn't recognise him to start with - usually wears a T-shirt and jeans! He's carrying on the fascination with old bikes that his father, John, had eons ago.

Rob

Doug's late brother, Dave, used to passenger for me occasionally when I raced F 2 sidecars.
We did the Ulster Grand Prix together in the late '90s.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Interesting. The presenter was a bit of a tit. The female blonde presenter who kept just repeating what the interviewee said was annoying too. I like the red haired woman off the Edwardian Farm tho.

They should have nipped up to Nelson to visit Carradice.