Veteran cycle club track day

tried 'old film' and 'b/w' but the image was even more degraded. i was very impressed with the speed of the penny farthings. the first hour record of 26km was done on one of those and now i'm not so surprised.

I went up to Herne Hill track today for the Veteran Cycle Club, excellent to see some old bikes flying around the track.
Good to see you all up there even though it was briefly before I dissappeared over to Chris and sign up for a race :D

I even gave my Holdsworth Monsoon a bash round the track in the Ancocks Handicap race and All Comers race ;D 8)

My friend Chris Bramley won the Father and Daughter race on the same bike with his daughter Robin 8)

Here are some pics. main files here main pics
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Robins early Claud Butler
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Chris's 1950s Claud Butler
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1800s Boneshaker
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Old Ordinaries sprint for the line
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Hetchins race
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Curly Hetchins
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Unknown Track bike just a capital R on the head and seat tube.
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Ephgrave bike
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Paul Mepham and Eric on the tandem race
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The Maldon boys pull out in front to win
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Start of the Bates race
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Another early Claud Butler
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Pre War gents on Pre War bikes, all earlier than 1939 ;D
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Father and Daughter race Robin furthest away wins her lap
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and Chris stays out in front to win the race.
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thanks for those pics, fixedwheelnut! looked fantastic.

rakan [rkn] I look so cool i'm gunna start wearing a helmet everyday ;)

i thought that was you,i must say you did look cool racing a child!

i guess some quality spam will be following shortly

Anyone know if this event is due a repeat this year?

I'd love to see the Pennys going for it!

it's scheduled for the 7th June this year again at Herne Hill

not long been back from the veteran cycle track day and jumble at herne hill,,,,, really good to see so many lovely bicycles and racing on old bicycles.

its such a free for all. anything goes on the track - lack of helmets , front baskets , gears , brakes , under eights on bikes with stabilisers, dresses. there were only a couple of droplets of rain and the jumble was very good, calm relaxed with a few cheap treasures and couple of expensive treats available.
roll on the next one :-)

God damnit! I wanted to head to a jumble today to pick up some bits, but didn't know this was on, and couldn't be arsed to go into town for LMNH.

behind a sellers stall propped up against his car was a blue bicycle frame with only the chainset, headset and forks attached. confused i could only utter the words "what's that blue thing" it was similar in a way to seeing a famous person that you have admired and mumbling something silly at them. brain to mouth filter gets jumbled. anyway the seller was very kind and took time to explain what it was. i was going to take a picture and forgot. it was one of these

more info on this marque here if your interested

Ben oldridge’s patent was primarily concerned with the riding position of a racing cyclist, ensuring that the rider was as close as possible to being vertically over the pedals and the rear wheel. This entailed a design with a very short wheelbase, and the consequent problems of chain alignment. He also had ideas on a back pedalling brake, a gearbox within the bottom bracket, and a shaft drive. The answer to all these problems was seen by Ben as a twin tube frame, with a longer than usual bottom bracket axle that could accommodate an inboard chain wheel which would move across so that it was always in alignment with the selected rear sprocket.

The Veteran - Cycle Club is an excellent institution. I recommend that anyone with an interest in retro cycling should join it.