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I joined the Clarion second claim because of the third party insurance that comes with membership, but it does seem a lively club that does a fair amount of actual bike riding, and it's refreshing to find this in these days when so many clubs are in the doldrums.
Is the abandoned bottle on the grass in the Big Ben and statues photo any kind of comment?
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Baines Gate
Another one for the completist, and it may well give pleasure to some one.
But you would have thought that a professional trader, asking a thousand pounds, would have taken better photos. Apart from the poor focussing, surely it would have been better to put the (anachronistic) saddle up so that it's higher than the bars - it certainly doesn't look 'gen' as it is. Perhaps the seat pin is stuck?
Also the front wheel is visibly off centre in the forks: is it buckled, are the forks bent, or is the wheel just badly fitted?
I suppose the design isn't weird if you think the most important feature of frame design is to have a very short wheel base. I wouldn't agree with this theory.
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Bit of TLC?
No, no amount of tlc would help - I'm pretty sure this is a Raleigh originally badged as a Humber. I'm going by the fork crown.
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Evelyn Hamilton (The Person)
It's unusual nowadays for me to see a copy of Cycling Weekly but, by chance, I happen to have the issue for 3rd October '24. The photo below is on pages 60 and 61.
I'm almost certain the rider on the far right is Evelyn - it looks very much like her, and she's about the right age (Born 1906, so 24 in 1930) and, unlike the others, she has a proper bike - with sprints and tubs - note tapes. CW didn't notice what they'd got in that pic, or possibly didn't care.
She was a remarkable person, even if we don't believe absolutely everything she claimed. Good looking and photogenic she shines out of all those photos with dowdy looking blokes ( I'm including Claud Butler himself and he was generally a bit larger than life).
She claimed to be a champion cyclist and it's not hard to believe she was good, but just what women's championships were there in the 1930's? The French resistance story is great, if it's true, but if she was awarded the Cross of Lorraine it seems surprising that there is no record.
One thing that does seem to be beyond dispute is that she lived to be ninety nine (the same age as Eileen Sheridan). Evelyn certainly is an intriguing character and I hope all the stories are true, but I really would love to see a little more proof.
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Evelyn Hamilton (Bike)
The photo in post 5399 shows a very attractive bike - but is it the one actually advertised on Ebay?
I ask because the bike in the photo has a Chater chainset and a Super Champion derailleur, but the text under the Ebay ad states that it has ' a Williams 45 tooth chain ring and a Sturmey hub'. Just wondering.
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Two for the price of one
I don't know why I failed to post October's report, but here it is, along with this month's, where the speaker was our own Oliver Schick:
https://www.velouk.net/2024/10/18/feature-the-pedal-club-lunch-october/
https://www.velouk.net/2024/11/26/news-the-pedal-club-lunch-november/
I'm very late posting here because I've been under the weather all this week.
First, like so many others, I want to express my gratitude to Velocio for the great work done in creating and maintaining this forum.
We users have perhaps abused Velocio's generosity by allowing one person to be so central. This is something which has happened many times in the world of cycling clubs and the result is usually a collapse when that vital person goes (one classic example - Clarence Wheelers and Alf Whiteway).
I feel the only way forward is for some one else to put their head over the top of the parapet, and preferably more than one person.
Since the high point of my own computer literacy is being just about able to use this forum, I'm afraid I have little to offer beyond moral support and a modest cash contribution if that will help matters.