Me And My Bike

[Smokin Joe]

A great BBC video from 1989, takes a wide ranging look at club cycling in the UK -


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMkQkNOA7-A

 

[Bristolian]

What a great watch

Disappointing to hear the anti-cycling rhetoric even back then

 

[DCLane]

"if you can take your girlfriend, or fiancee, for a week or a fortnight and you get cold wet and hungry but you're still friends you've got a good basis for a married life"

I liked the George Longstaff's comment that their bikes weren't sold, but on a life-long lease. That's the impression I could over-hear when asking Woodrup's about when mine was built.

The coverage of John Woodburn's LEJOG record was interesting.