Shiny new ladies machine

Snap from a family album of someone's nice new ladies sports roadster. Good skills if you can recognise the make or model.

Shiny new fifties ladies frame sports roadster.

Gents lightweight tourer

A couple of pics of a quality fifties light touring machine. Major kudos if you can identify the marque!

Ladies Roadster

A nicely composed image looking like it is from the forties. Simple pleasures - summer sun and a cycle on a quiet country lane. I take my hat off to you if you can identify the cycle.

Early childs tricycle and pedal car

Cute photo of a pair of young 'uns with their toys looking like they are to the manor born. 

Tricycle and pedal car probably from the 1900s.

Butchers bike

Great old photo of a butchers bike. Chap looks happy with his job!

Butcher bicycle period photo.
Probably 1930s.

French club rider 1908

Evocative photograph of a French uniformed club rider from 1908.

Bicycling Bee Gee and Lulu

Maurice Gibb from the Bee Gees and Lulu on a tandem in 1969.

Back when I worked at jack Hearne's cycle shop I remember him saying that one of the Gibb brothers took up cycling in the seventies as a diversion from the excesses of the pop industry. I cannot remember which of the brothers it was now and I've searched in vain for a picture of a Bee Gee on a Hearne cycle. Can anyone out there help?

Bee Gee Maurice Gibb and Lulu on a tandem.

Coupled cycles

This picture is cribbed from 'The Devil on Wheels', a 1946 biography of the father of all bicycles Kirkpatrick Macmillan by Gordon Irving. I've never encountered anything like this before, looks like a kit to tether two regular standard bicycles together. I suspect a horror to ride!

Race transportation sixties style

Here's how you went racing on a budget back in the day. The motorcycle is a Panther, the cycle I couldn't say, fairly easy to recognise those Mafac brakes though.

Strange how we indulge in a hobby that should have impeccable environmentally friendly credentials but often put our cycles in the car to transport them to somewhere we want to ride. The rise of mountain bike parks has made this even more commonplace with folks driving perhaps for more than an hour just in order to have a cycle ride. 

Vintage club runs in the Highlands

A small selection of photos taken from a Scottish cycling club album. The pictures are all taken in Perth and Kinross area. Some truly tough riding. Cycling was for hard men back in those days! I've captioned the images with the annotation written on the back of each photo. 

Shiehallion 27/1/52

Amulree 1950

Loch Earn 3/2/52

Shiehallion 27/1/52