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Retro Raleigh Cycle Clothing
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Fetching!
Here is Peter Thomson, 3 miles East of Scotland Champion, 1905-06.
I think the artist in the Raleigh promo poster rather underestimated the chainring size - compare it with Mr Thomson's!
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Determined looking fellow! Mind you, Mr Zimmermans shoes look better polished (though his haircut is perhaps not quite so aerodynamic)
lol, good spot re the chainring!
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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.
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Good balancing act, too.
Posted 12 years ago # -
There's some kind of propstand affair underneath the bike on that photo: that will have helped the balance, I imagine!
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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...
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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!!
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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.
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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).
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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.
Some non-lycra fetishists might have thought that in 1905 it would have been tweed jackets and pipes?
Posted 12 years ago # -
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?
Posted 12 years ago # -
£6.50 out of Armstrongs today. Like new.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I hate you.
Posted 12 years ago # -
And it's not even because I'm jealous or nothing. And yellow is stupid.
Posted 12 years ago # -
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.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Ohh, you salt-rubbing little tart. I'm in rustic Tayside.
Admittedly it's Visit Scotland lovely rolling hills all around, so I'm going to enjoy it hugely, but still...
Posted 12 years ago # -
I may have tweeted the existence of the USPS-Trek top.
@Threefromleith may have just bought it. And the original La Vie Claire-Toshiba one...
Gone to a good home at least!
Posted 12 years ago # -
THERE WAS A LA VIE CLAIRE TOP!!!! ARRRRGH!
Posted 12 years ago # -
I had forgotten about it until he tweeted the picture... I would have bought also but was too big for me.
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