Penny Junor reports from the grounds of Blenheim Palace, where members of the Benson Veteran Cycle Club are demonstrating an impressive collection of Ned Passey’s vintage velocipedes, bicycles, tricycles and quadracycles.
Vehicles featured include the Coventry Machinists Company’s 1880 Cheylesmore, Willard Sawyer’s velocipede, James Starley’s 1878 velocipede, the Monarch tandem, the American Star Cycle, and all manner of assorted boneshakers, sociables, tandems and penny-farthings.
Clip taken from Collecting Now, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 23 September, 1981.
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9 Comments
I remember that year well. We ladies still dressed like ladies!
Amazing to chart the innovation of bicycles, so many designs in a relatively few number of years.
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I remember a few years ago being stunned one day to see someone locally riding on a penny farthing. There was also some joker about a decade ago riding around on a unicycle. I remember seeing him a few times.
Makes a refreshing change from some of the arrogant irresponsible 'gits' who thoughtlessly bomb around on hire e-cycles today!
Loved those cows 🐂🐄🐄☀️
I say, that first lady presenter was rather smashing ❤️ I would love to have taken her to a little bistro I know in Chelsea ❤️
Yeah, you wouldn't want to meet them on an S-bend.
This is literally what Gen-Z thinks we lived like in the 1980s. Penny farthings and horse carriages.
The penny-farthing was a one-way ticket to intensive care.