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Dougie
Wigan
31 of 47  Sat 6th Mar 2021 5:23pm  

Have been looking at this link by Dutchman. I really enjoyed it, people must have seen it, but just in case not, here it is.
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Helen F
Warrington
32 of 47  Sun 7th Mar 2021 6:37pm  

Interesting Dougie.
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argon
New Milton
33 of 47  Thu 6th May 2021 1:50pm  

Just come across this article about the cycle industry, plus a little local history - Coventry cycle companies.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
34 of 47  Fri 7th May 2021 10:46am  

The first cycle's wheels were steel bands, and across Coventry's cobbles almost unbearable to ride. It wasn't until a man from Dublin called Dunlop invented the rubber tyre etc around 1900 that they became bearable to ride.
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BrotherJoybert
Coventry
35 of 47  Sun 16th May 2021 10:58am  

The mural dedicated to James Starley at Pool Meadow bus station, done by Angry Dan.
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Prof
Gloucester
36 of 47  Thu 8th Jul 2021 8:52am  

Just imagine this rattling down St Agnes' Lane!
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argon
New Milton
37 of 47  Sun 11th Jul 2021 1:00pm  

In the 1950's there was a man who lived in our road who used to ride a pennyfarthing up and down the road . He and his son used it in the Godiva procession, his son was John Goldby and all of us youngsters would come out to watch.
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mickw
nuneaton
38 of 47  Mon 19th Jul 2021 10:07am  

Lovely to see that John Goldby has made it on to HCF. He was my form teacher at Freddie Birds, a very funny man.
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argon
New Milton
39 of 47  Mon 19th Jul 2021 1:40pm  

'lo mick, Nice to know what happenened to John Goldby. When we lived in Prince of Wales Road I was quite friendly with him but never got to ride the pennyfarthing. Didn't know he took to teaching. If I remember right he went to Wheatley Street School. Good memories of him.
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mickw
nuneaton
40 of 47  Wed 21st Jul 2021 3:29am  

Hi argon. I'm assuming it's the same John Goldby, as there can't be many people of that name that rode pennyfarthings in the Coventry Carnival. He was quite a big, thick set man as I remember.
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argon
New Milton
41 of 47  Wed 21st Jul 2021 11:38am  

mickw. It could well be, he was tall, random images bubble up from my poor memory and I now think that he and his dad had two bicycles and I think that they both rode them in the carnivals. I recall his dad as a short man whilst John was a bit of a bean pole.
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Kaga simpson
Peacehaven, East Sussex
42 of 47  Wed 20th Oct 2021 3:15pm  

The photo shows cycles which, for 1902, are remarkable. Were they solid rubber or pneumatic? J Dunlop had only recently arrived in town.
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Annewiggy
Tamworth
43 of 47  Wed 20th Oct 2021 4:50pm  

Dunlop pneumatic tyres are being advertised in the Cycle Magazine as early as 1891
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry
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44 of 47  Wed 20th Oct 2021 6:20pm  

Yes, you can tell from the "grain" on that photo that probably no more detail would be available at higher scanning resolutions. However, the "safety" bicycle was well established by that time, and the bikes in the photo appear to be of the "modern" design (Sturmey-Archer hub gears also became available in 1902), so with the pneumatic tyre having been around for well over a decade, I would say that these bikes almost certainly have them, and not solid tyres.
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Osmiroid
UK
45 of 47  Thu 21st Oct 2021 5:23pm  

Kaga, I don't know how quickly inflatable tyres were phased in, rapidly or very slowly? I had a solid tyre bike aged around 8, and solid tyres are still available even today, heavier but impossible to get a puncture.
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