http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: We've come a long way... en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:13 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7755#post-78631 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:50:27 +0000 Claggy Cog 78631@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some great photos in the collection, you would like the tandem trike Roibeard. Personally, I was made up, as they say, to see Eileen Sheridan was featured not once but twice. She was truly fantastic...one of the club members who still took runs when I joined had gone to see her on her record breaking ride on LEJOG in 1954, and recounted the tale, as well as lending me a biography on a truly remarkable sportswoman and champion cyclist, known as the Pocket Hercules! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7755#post-78583 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:53:32 +0000 Roibeard 78583@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In 1906 manufacturers considered their bikes superior because they didn't employ women:</p> <p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/gallery/2012/jul/19/pedals-medals-competitive-cycling-in-pictures#/?picture=393128039&amp;index=3" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/gallery/2012/jul/19/pedals-medals-competitive-cycling-in-pictures#/?picture=393128039&amp;index=3</a></p> <p><em>MALE OR FEMALE LABOUR.</p> <p>The male mechanic in the Workshop has proved himself infinitely superior to the female - he is capable of doing better, more exact, more reliable work.<br /> Morally, mixed labour does not raise the standard of either worker, and considerably lowers the standard of the work produced.<br /> TRIUMPH Cycles are made in a factory where no female labour whatever is employed. Female labour and best work do not go together therefore let your machine be a TRIUMPH. "The Best Bicycle British Workmanship can produce" and made by skilled male mechanics only.<br /> The TRIUMPH is the only Coventry Cycle Factory not employing female labour.</em></p> <p>June 1906</p> <p>Ten years later...</p> <p>We may not yet have reached equal pay, but there's been a bit of progress!</p> <p>Robert </p>