Remember your bicycles from the past?

[Dustydog]

I saw this today. A Claud Butler. As a young teenager I saved up my paper round money and bought. Sun Snipe racing bike. Golden yellow, 5 speed Campagnolo derailleur gears, Weinman 999, centre pull brakes and a solid highly polished Brooks saddle, and all metal,pedals. Wish I’d kept. Probably worth a bit now

 

[Hutch]

DD, your pictures are coming through 90 ' out.
A mate of mine near Waterrow collects old bike but has not got a Penny Farthing, Yet.

 

[Dustydog]

DD, your pictures are coming through 90 ' out.
A mate of mine near Waterrow collects old bike but has not got a Penny Farthing, Yet.

I tried to rotate them . No luck

 

[figbat]

Whilst I never owned them back in the day, I have become attached to classic bikes and currently own two 'shopper' types - a 1979 Dawes Kingpin (currently in 'shabby chic' condition, in perfect working order but with a working patina)...


...and a 1973 Elswick-Hopper Cosmopolitan (fully stripped, blasted, powder-coated, converted from Sturmey-Archer 3-speed hub to 5-speed derailleur and 'restomod' rebuilt).


I also have a couple of 90s MTBs - a 1997 Trek 830 Mountain Track that I have converted into a drop-barred gravel bike...


...and a 1998 Saracen Dirt Trax that is all totally stock with the addition of mudguards and a pannier rack to make it my off-road commuter.


These represent half of my current fleet (not counting the rest of the family's bikes).

 

[otherclive]

They are a really nice collectio, and quite unusual. I’m now down to a 15 year old Giant hybrid that’s sat in the garage with its two new tyres hanging from the handlebars. we live about 200 m from the Wiltshire cycle way so plenty of nice lanes, but my favourite is to bundle it into the car and go along the Kennet and Avon towpath from Bradford on Avon to the outskirts of Bath, no cars whatsoever. 😀

 

[figbat]

They are a really nice collectio, and quite unusual. I’m now down to a 15 year old Giant hybrid that’s sat in the garage with its two new tyres hanging from the handlebars. we live about 200 m from the Wiltshire cycle way so plenty of nice lanes, but my favourite is to bundle it into the car and go along the Kennet and Avon towpath from Bradford on Avon to the outskirts of Bath, no cars whatsoever. 😀

Thanks! I live in the shadow of the Ridgeway and the North Wessex Downs AONB - 2 minutes from leaving my garage I can be riding on tracks and trails with no sight of civilisation (well, aside from the managed hedgerows and farmed fields!). This is where the rest of my fleet comes out - a carbon-fibre full-suspension MTB or a carbon fibre hardtail MTB for offroad and a carbon fibre road bike for the back lanes. Which just leaves the single-speed bike I recently acquired as it was left outside someone's house to be taken for free otherwise it was going to the tip .

 

[Sam Vimes]

In the '50s my father had a Raleigh Rudge. He used to strap a pillow around the cross bar and then two fishing rods along the length. I would sit on the cross bar and we'd head off fishing. He with a proper rod and me with a short plastic one. I recall the bicycle seemed to weigh a ton. I have no recollection of ever catching anything.



These days we use one of these...

 

[Raywood]

I have not ridden a bicycle since I left school. It was a Raleigh but I cannot remember the model. I fitted dropped handlebars to make it look cool, but that was all.

 

[figbat]

I've not ridden a bicycle since Wednesday - and I'll be out again tomorrow. 🚴‍♀️

 

[Bluetonic]

My first real bike was a Raleigh Chopper in about 1975 , I grew up on that thing and was a huge part of my life. Towing friends on skateboards, attaching my dad's golf cart to make a trailer, two of us on the saddle, one on the rear rack, one on the handlebars. Brilliant times and I still have the scars to remind me 😂

Many bikes later including a rather nice Cannondale mountain bike I now have my Electra cruiser. 3 speed, coaster brake and a brilliant frame with the crank moved forward which makes it so comfortable to peddle for someone with a kippered back

 

[otherclive]

My first real bike was a Raleigh Chopper in about 1975 , I grew up on that thing and was a huge part of my life. Towing friends on skateboards, attaching my dad's golf cart to make a trailer, two of us on the saddle, one on the rear rack, one on the handlebars. Brilliant times and I still have the scars to remind me 😂

Many bikes later including a rather nice Cannondale mountain bike I now have my Electra cruiser. 3 speed, coaster break and a brilliant frame with the crank moved forward which makes it so comfortable to peddle for someone with a kippered back

They like really nice (and unusual) bikes. I’ve just fitted two new tyres and tubes to my Giant 25 inch hybrid and will treat it to a clean this weekend. Then out for a potter around the lanes.

 

[Bluetonic]

They like really nice (and unusual) bikes. I’ve just fitted two new tyres and tubes to my Giant 25 inch hybrid and will treat it to a clean this weekend. Then out for a potter around the lanes.

Thanks, unfortunately in my early 20s I developed ankylosing spondulitus which was really painful and has caused several vertebrae to become fused. Peddling a normal bike became impossible and it was a really sad day when I finally sold my Cannondale.
I really missed being out on a bike and discovered the strange Electra bikes by accident. The odd frame geometry is amazing, it's like riding
an arm chair. Being a 3 speed it's great for tow paths and level rides but not much fun on hills