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!).
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.
Lightweight is the Right Weight
There are quite a few more in in the full set. Don your rose-tinted cycling glasses and reminisce!
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!).
It has a list of 7 bicycle-games that I think should be tried out;
1 - The Spanner Race
2 - Slow Race
3 - Balloon Race
4 - Blindfold Race
5 - Freewheeling
6 - Crossover Arm Cycling
7 - Bicycle Shapes.
There's a nice picture of some cyclists in (I think) Inverleith park playing the blindfold game, with buckets over their heads.
Theres also a great article called "SAY NO TO NATIONAL BICYCLE WEEK" in the tongue-in-cheek style that Anth sometimes uses for Citycyling.
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.
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