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I saw a chap with an LCEF cap on Upper Tooting Road this morning. Can't remember what he was riding, but it had gears and stuff.
Woman on a dark blue singlespeed Woodrup near IWM IIRC. Obviously a connoisseur.
ETA: I'm back on fixed from today. At last! Still have some fettling to do, but it's back on the road and riding well.
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Heads up about an interesting (if small) exhibition in the foyer at The Womens Library in Old Church St, Spitalfields. It's called 'Cycling to Suffrage', and covers the role of bikes in the lives of women generally, and the suffrage movement particularly during the cycling craze and the Edwardian era.
I attended a really good talk by the curator last week. Needless to say, the Clarion got several mentions. As did the subject of Rational Dress, which was a prominent Clarion concern.
I was interested to find that there were Suffrage Scouts, like the Clarion Scouts, who would ride out to various towns just outside the cities where they were based to distribute leaflets, parade in suffrage colours and hold political meetings. I would expect that a lot of the suffrage scouts were Clarion members as well.
Well worth a visit. And do remember to give a donation to TWL while you're there.
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Probably from Harry Perry Cycles in Woolwich. I've not come across much about them, which might indicate that they weren't framebuilders themselves, but badged frames which they bought in from another builder. It was quite common for shops a couple of decades back.
I think I've seen a Perry training at HH, though googling links them to cyclocross team VC Elan.
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Pennine Cycles is another old cycle shop still building nice frames in Bradford. We're spoiled for choice in West Yorkshire, definitely more going on than just BJ.
Pennine may be old (1946), but Ellis Briggs is ten years older than that! Bob Jackson started as JRJ in 1935 (though the shop was closed during WWII). Merlin Cycles, though not a Yorkshire brand, bought in the 50s by BJ, was started in 1918. JF Wilsons is more recent (1948). Woodrups is a newcomer, dating back only to the 1960s.
Lots of classic history around.
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It certainly is! I have a Woodrup Giro Custom, and I desperately want a Feather.
To complete the fleet, I'd want a Bob Jackson Audax End-End, an Ellis-Briggs (though I'd probably want a tourer from them), a silly fast Pennine, and a classic Baines VS37. South Yorkshire also has JF Wilson, I should say, for completeness, and MB is not far from that. It's all West Riding (barring Dronfield).
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Dogpants on Mitcham Lane again. He was riding a different bike, but fortunately had his forum jersey on, so I could chase him up the hill. Shouting DAS didn't get much reaction, as I was probably still too far away at that point, but I caught him at a set of traffic lights, and introduced myself.
I was packing 20 extra gears.
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Pfff, Mitcham Lane isn't that far south, my commute starts in Worcester park... But no one ever spots me in my forum jersey :-(
Well, yeah. I start from Carbloodyshalton. Just a lot of the spots on this thread seem to be over the other side of town.
I do ride through Worcester Park on my way home if I've diverted via RP. I promise to look for you, if it'll make you feel better.
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Definitely complain. My wife is a nanny, and regularly rides a tandem with a four year old stoking and a baby in the rear seat. All to standard and approved. If the Police are trying to crack down on something which isn't illegal, and which they clearly know sod all about, then they're wasting a very limited resource.
Definitely complain.
Where were you?
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Don't think Charlotte's been out on her ordinary lately. Most likely Lionel.
I was hoping that Lionel would have been at the Herne Hill meet. Sadly he wasn't, but I did get to ride in convoy with five ordinaries (including Kat and Joff Summerfield) to the Half Moon. The reactions of passers-by were priceless.
Shows how much I know. Kat's just posted some photos of the promo ride for the Nocturne. Including Charlotte on her ordinary.
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Just remembered - a bit late, sorry - that the Clarion lad gave me a card advertising an upcoming event some of you might be interested in.
Monday 21 May (next Monday) 6pm
Friends House, Euston Road
John Carlos (one of the athletes who gave the Black Power salute on the podium in Mexico '68) will be talking onResistance: The Best Olympic Spirit
With Doreen Lawrence, mother of Stephen, and Janet Alder, sister of Christopher Alder, who died in Hull Police station in 1998.
Admission Free
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Charlotte or maybe Lionel of the VCC on their way to Potter's Fields?
Don't think Charlotte's been out on her ordinary lately. Most likely Lionel.
I was hoping that Lionel would have been at the Herne Hill meet. Sadly he wasn't, but I did get to ride in convoy with five ordinaries (including Kat and Joff Summerfield) to the Half Moon. The reactions of passers-by were priceless.
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Saw a rider this morning on a white bike with white bartape, white rims, white hubs, white chainset, white chain and pink tyres.
It's certainly a look...