http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: vintage cycling adverts - Recent Topics en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:09:06 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3521#post-36791 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:33:05 +0000 kaputnik 36791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A while ago I swapped a Blackburn frame-pump with someone through this very here forum and (without asking) got a pile of interesting magazines in return "because I might like them" (I do!).</p> <p>Anyway I was flicking through them this afternoon as I re-arranged my bookshelves and came across the CTC Gazette, Volume 75, No. 11 from November 1956 and it's full of wonderful old adverts for (mostly) long-gone names in British cycling, so I thought I would share them with you.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5994400399/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6022/5994400399_7270ccec66.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5994400399/">Styled to Suit the Modern Age</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5994971428/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6024/5994971428_277eec2e7d.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5994971428/">Lightweight is the Right Weight</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5994973910/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6012/5994973910_c581e2b9c9.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5994973910/">Choose the Tourist Cycle</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5994981098/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6004/5994981098_b3353e5077.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5994981098/">NEW</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5994982938/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6006/5994982938_feb43bb5cc.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5994982938/">The True Temper Steel Bicycle</a></p> <p>There are quite a few more in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/sets/72157627199989177">in the full set</a>. Don your rose-tinted cycling glasses and reminisce!</p> <p>There is also an A4 Sustrans leaflet from the late 1980s entitled "Scotland's Growing Network of Safe Travel Routes" and a Spokes booklet from 1980 entitled "Edinburgh For Cyclists". If anyone is interested in the latter they are welcome to borrow it - it's an interesting trip down memory lane (although not my memory, as I wasn't even born then!).</p> <p>It has a list of 7 bicycle-games that I think should be tried out;</p> <p>1 - The Spanner Race<br /> 2 - Slow Race<br /> 3 - Balloon Race<br /> 4 - Blindfold Race<br /> 5 - Freewheeling<br /> 6 - Crossover Arm Cycling<br /> 7 - Bicycle Shapes.</p> <p>There's a nice picture of some cyclists in (I think) Inverleith park playing the blindfold game, with buckets over their heads.</p> <p>Theres also a great article called "SAY NO TO NATIONAL BICYCLE WEEK" in the tongue-in-cheek style that Anth sometimes uses for Citycyling.</p> <p>Interesting that a lot of the articles in it are 31 years old and we are still facing a lot of the same problems in Edinburgh! Anyway, just ask if you'd like a butchers, there's too much to photograph. </p>