http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Retro Raleigh Cycle Clothing en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:16:58 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-51374 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:15:30 +0000 kaputnik 51374@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had forgotten about it until he tweeted the picture... I would have bought also but was too big for me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-51371 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:08:24 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 51371@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>THERE WAS A LA VIE CLAIRE TOP!!!! ARRRRGH! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-51370 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:06:55 +0000 kaputnik 51370@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I <em>may</em> have tweeted the existence of the USPS-Trek top.</p> <p>@Threefromleith <em>may</em> have just bought it. And the original La Vie Claire-Toshiba one...</p> <p>Gone to a good home at least! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-51338 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:35:12 +0000 Uberuce 51338@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ohh, you salt-rubbing little tart. I'm in rustic Tayside.</p> <p>Admittedly it's Visit Scotland lovely rolling hills all around, so I'm going to enjoy it hugely, but still... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-51337 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:23:19 +0000 kaputnik 51337@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If you get there tomorrow there should still be the Lance Maillot Jaune / USPS / Trek jersey also. Think it was £8. Was also a horrendous Lewes Wheelers CC one in dayglo yellow and green. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-51336 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:01:43 +0000 Uberuce 51336@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And it's not even because I'm jealous or nothing. And yellow is stupid. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-51335 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:50:04 +0000 Uberuce 51335@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I hate you. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-51333 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:06:04 +0000 kaputnik 51333@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>£6.50 out of Armstrongs today. Like new.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/6583696495/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6583696495_574965ccf7.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/6583694159/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6583694159_0a94e76620.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48216 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:34:37 +0000 gembo 48216@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In an early wink to future tri-athletes they seem to have taken the victorian bathing suit and adapted it for cycling. As Arnold Brown, the great comic would say And Why Not? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48214 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:17:57 +0000 kaputnik 48214@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From the <a href="http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_G/0_groups_and_outings_vulcan_cycling_club_1905c.htm">same site</a>, here's Mr Thomson and chums from the Vulcan Cycling Club around the same period.</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_G/0_groups_and_outings_vulcan_cycling_club_1905c.htm"><img src="http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_G/0_groups_and_outings_vulcan_cycling_club_1905c.jpg"></a></p> <p>Men on extreme left and right would NOT look that out of place next to someone in Rapha finery!</p> <p>Man in the middle is sporting a more tweed run style. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48213 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:05:44 +0000 gembo 48213@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>1905 - The kit looks bang up to date. Curious if you compare it to tennis with short trousers not coming in until much later. Tennis just popped into my head but almost any other sport. Maybe not jockeys. The early silk/ chamois look has not altered much with modern synthetic fabrics.</p> <p>Some non-lycra fetishists might have thought that in 1905 it would have been tweed jackets and pipes? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48188 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:00:15 +0000 Claggy Cog 48188@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Photo tinting was the way it was done, I used to have a very old set of Kodak photo tints, what fun that was, using old glass negatives to print off then colour them. It probably is a studio shot with a backdrop, early astroturf (just kidding). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48184 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:00:35 +0000 kaputnik 48184@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think he may be in a studio - the camera is at a slight angle to the rider and the appearance of being on a slope is accentuated by the low-profile frame design. It would not be unheard of for the background to be added in later. The fence certainly looks painted on, and somebody has added the colours too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48179 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:36:20 +0000 Claggy Cog 48179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Love the handlebars. Wool shorts though, probably not merino, and fine and dandy in the dry but a different matter in the rain! Some of the older cyclists I know, who are about 70, were quite relieved to see the back of wool shorts, though lament the loss of real chamois inserts!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48178 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:30:39 +0000 Uberuce 48178@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm including that; what I mean is he's on a downhill and probably had to hold rock steady for 1905's finest film to expose. I don't know when people had to stop holding for minutes at a time, but I'd hazard a guess that even by then it wasn't on 1/2000th... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48175 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:13:31 +0000 crowriver 48175@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's some kind of propstand affair underneath the bike on that photo: that will have helped the balance, I imagine! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48161 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 06:29:59 +0000 Uberuce 48161@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good balancing act, too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48157 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:11:42 +0000 crowriver 48157@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The clothes are interesting. Nice brown leather shoes. Those old bikes look fantastic though. Drop North Road bars indeed. Looks like they are welded/brazed onto the stem to make one-piece bars. My old Raleigh Twenty has a similar arrangement. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48153 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:13:47 +0000 Smudge 48153@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Determined looking fellow! Mind you, Mr Zimmermans shoes look better polished (though his haircut is perhaps not quite so aerodynamic)</p> <p>lol, good spot re the chainring! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48152 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:10:46 +0000 kaputnik 48152@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fetching!</p> <p>Here is Peter Thomson, 3 miles East of Scotland Champion, 1905-06.</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_edin_t/0_edinburgh_transport_cycles_1906_peter_thomson.htm"><img src="http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_edin_t/0_edinburgh_transport_cycles_1906_peter_thomson.jpg"></a></p> <p>I think the artist in the Raleigh promo poster rather underestimated the chainring size - compare it with Mr Thomson's! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4536#post-48151 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:53:27 +0000 Smudge 48151@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48806000@N02/6408020163/"><img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6231/6408020163_e6dc8be561.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/48806000@N02/6408020163/">Trad Raleigh</a> </p> <p>Especially for Kaputnik ;-) </p>