Glasgow's Cycling Heritage

[Cyclo2000]

Found this while trying to find the pic I've requested elsewhere of Balmano street. Once again i cannae post pics so here's the link
http://www.polhillracingclub.co.uk/polhill%20new_page_4.htm

[rico]

Flying Scot frame just finished on e bay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180347577649&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:GB:1123

That is fantastic lug work.You don't get that with carbon.

Nervex lugs I think

http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/co ... ervex.html

[Dugald]

Found this while trying to find the pic I've requested elsewhere of Balmano street. Once again i cannae post pics so here's the link
http://www.polhillracingclub.co.uk/polhill%20new_page_4.htm

Great set of pictures there Cyclo, I enjoyed going through them all. I'm a bit disappointed though, that there wasn't a single Scottish cyclist included in the set. The only cyclist I knew was Dave Bedwell, a great cyclist and known as the "Ironman". Glasgow's Alex Hendry and George Edwards both featured very strongly in the Brighton to Glasgow races and both performed well. I still have the programme for the 1946 Brighton to Glasgow race and in it there is a picture of Alex Hendry and a couple of other cyclists (Ernie Clements is one of them) leaving Buckingham palace with a message for the Lord Provest of Glasgow. In the '46 event our club gathered on the hills above Stewarton and cheered George Edawards on his solo breakaway over the last few miles into Glasgow, and the big fellow was thumping up the hills and going like a train...a great finish!

[Aulyin]

It was great talking to "yin o' the aulyins" in the Glens Bar in New Cumnock who told us about the Flying Scot he used to have which he rode down and back to Blackpool all those years back.
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ToB 2009 information
The 2009 Tour of Britain will be the sixth running of the race, which continues to grow from strength to strength, attracting millions of spectators to the roadside and hundreds of thousands more via the daily highlights programme on ITV4.

The Tour of Britain begins in North Lincolnshire at Scunthorpe on Saturday 12th September, finishing eight days later in the centre of London on Saturday 19th September. Stage Three of The Tour of Britain will see the northern most point of the race, as The Tour heads to Scotland and takes in the Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway.

http://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/
http://www.tourofbritain.co.uk/_ns_race/

[Dexter St. Clair]

and on a fixed wheel too.

[Cyclo2000]

Thon Scot...
The lugs would be Nervex Professional - later bikes could be Prugnat.
The tubing could be Accles and Pollack or Reynolds 531.

[rico]

I took a wee trip today to the transport museum. Got some bike porn for you all whilst I was there:

Old Faithful:


Singer Safety c1888


Flying Scots


Baxter 1935

[rico]

If anyone is interested in having a say about the future of cycling in Scotland, have a read at the Cycling Action Plan for Scotland, and fill out a response form

[Mori]

ET

SCOTLAND'S top recruitment website today launched a new advertising campaign which showcases the talent of a Scots cycling sensation.
The new TV campaign from s1jobs capitalises on the remarkable skills of stunt cyclist Danny MacAskill.



Quite a daredevil this guy > Video

[Dexter St. Clair]

GORDON CASELY wrote this obituary

Bill Ritchie

Cartoonist and cycle speedway internationalist;

Born: August1, 1931
Died January 25, 2010.

BILL Ritchie, who has died aged 78, was the cartoonist whose work amused two generations of readers of comics from the stable of DC Thomson. Cartoon characters such as Baby Crockett and Clumsy Claude were originated by Ritchie, and the strips carrying their adventures that made them famous to readers of the Beezer and the Beano.

It was in the rough-and-tumble post-war sport of cycle speedway however that Glasgow-born Ritchie, a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, first made his name. He proved a top performer, competing in the first cycle speedway international against England in May 1949, at Rayleigh, Essex.

Head to Peter Gray's site if you wish to find out what happened to Baby Crocket

[Mori]

White Bike Plan

COME JOIN THE WHITE BIKE RIDE OUT!

There will be a Ride Out to launch our White Bikes on Thursday 15th April. Riders will meet at the Kelvingrove Park at 11.30am. All 50 bikes will then ride en masse from Kelvingrove Park to George Square where at 12.30 there will be an action and proclamation of the original manifesto. Anyone nicking a bike can expect to have it nicked straight back from them and put back into circulation! If you have two wheels, be there at Kelvingrove fountain for 11.30am to join the ride out.

THE EXHIBITION

NVA have curated a small exhibition on the Provo’s Witte Fietsenplan at the Glasgow International Hub at 54 Miller Street. Opening times of exhibition: 10am – 8pm daily throughout the festival.

[Mori]

Scotland.gov.uk


Cycling goes up a gear



25/06/2010

A £3.9 million plan to increase cycling numbers and have 10 per cent of all journeys by bike by 2020 was unveiled today.The Cycling Action Plan for Scotland aims to expand cycle routes across the country and improve cycle training in schools.

The plan:

£2.5 million investment in cycling infrastructure, such as new paths

£150,000 loan support scheme to help business improve workplace cycling facilities

£500,000 to Glasgow City Council for its Connect2 project, allowing cyclists to travel between the city centre, the Clyde riverside promenades, Kelvingrove Park and the West End free of traffic

£300,000 on child cycle training

[Dexter St. Clair]

Glasgow Cycling Festival This weekend

[Josef]

A £3.9 million plan to increase cycling numbers and have 10 per cent of all journeys by bike by 2020 was unveiled today.The Cycling Action Plan for Scotland aims to expand cycle routes across the country and improve cycle training in schools.

What a complete waste of money. You could have got 23 yards, 2 feet and 1.5 inches more of the M8 extension for that.

[mrsam]

Located in the centre of Stirling



Mr Sam