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In the olden days, you didn't just casually n+1 every time you wanted to try a different discipline, you rode your track bike on the road and on the grass too.
It's hard, nowadays, to understand just how short money was in the 40's and 50's.
Many rear hubs from this period are what are now called 'flip flop', but we knew them as 'gear/fixed' . They existed because you only had one back wheel which you used for gears in the summer, but turned round to use as fixed for the winter. Apart from anything else, your derailleur was too expensive and precious to be used under winter conditions. A Simplex Tour de France rear mech cost about thirty shillings (£1.50) in the 1950's, Benelux and Huret about the same.
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In the olden days, you didn't just casually n+1 every time you wanted to try a different discipline, you rode your track bike on the road and on the grass too. Poised in third and ready to pounce for the win. Before fast lenses, TT pix were taken at the dead turn where riders where going at walking pace.