Radial Truths (A Cycling tour as part of the Still Walking(?) festival)

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Permalink Reply by Simon on February 22, 2012 at 16:24

Looks rather nice, pity I can't make the date :-(

I think that Brum would actually benefit from something about the history of bikes in the city (after all we did have the biggest bike builder in the world: Sun in Aston), to get us away from the Brum=cars equation that we all see all the time.  I did try to get something in our museum but the normal BCC lack of funding ruled it out.

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Permalink Reply by LS on February 22, 2012 at 16:43

Sun might have been the biggest bike builder in the world but Hercules were the largest cycle manufacturer in the world :-)

http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/Hercules.htm

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Permalink Reply by Simon on February 22, 2012 at 18:22

I think that with thee things there are often at least two, if not more, largest producers running concurrently - depends whose blurb you believe if any.  At least they seem to agree that Brum was once the largest maker of bikes in the world back in the day!

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Permalink Reply by James Lee on February 23, 2012 at 7:34

1.37" x 24 tpi.

 

Nuff said.

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Permalink Reply by Donna Norford on February 23, 2012 at 10:07

It seems like it may be really interesting tour..... I can't make that date either. 

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