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[i]Owen Hook, 72, paid 36 monthly instalments of 10 shillings for the top-of-the-range Raleigh after buying it from a local department store in 1953.
He has ridden the bike every day since, either commuting to work or heading to the shops near his home in Haddenham, near Ely, Cambs.[/i]
Only one bike for 60 years and it's not even a singlespeed!
They don't make 'em like they used to, eh?
Actually, they do make 'em like that again now probably.
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I need baskets on my bikes 8)
Luckily, living in Ely he won't ever have encountered a hill. Might not have kept it 60 years otherwise.
But he has had a dozen new wheels, lots of pads, cables, chains, heasdsets etc etc...... bit like my grandads 60yr old brush several new heads and a couple of new handles and still going strong 😉
Even has the original brake cables!
I hope I'm sill pedalling at that age.
But he has had a dozen new wheels, lots of pads, cables, chains, heasdsets etc etc.....
"The three-speed cycle, which was green but resprayed red in 1985, still has its original steel frame, wheels, seat, gear and brake cables, and mud guards."
Doh, trying to read it and watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse with my 3yr old 😳
60 year old brake cables. 😯
I drive a 20 year old Land Rover, so I'm all for the idea of keeping something going as long as possible, but you can take it too far.
I bet he knows what the funny bits of tube in puncture kit are for... 🙂
bit like my grandads 60yr old brush several new heads and a couple of new handles and still going strong
Similar to Triggers from Only Fools & Horses. 😉
Class bike!
Shopper-core is where it's at for 2010, people!
Price new = £18:00.
= 30p/annum!
"30p/annum"
I reckon I spend about 30p/mile for my cycling 🙁
It's exactly these consumerist idiots that caused us to enter recession.
Owen Hook, 72, paid 36 monthly instalments of 10 shillings for the top-of-the-range Raleigh
If you can't afford to buy it outright, save up until you can.
I expect he'll be looking for another on tick shortly.
Old Giffer in Riding the same old bike for years Shocker!!!
So a fella living in one of the flattest part of the country rides an old Raleigh one mile a day and it doesn’t explode, hardly a testament to the durability of British craftsmanship though is it, I mean assuming he’s done one mile a day every working day for the last 60 years he’s clocked up ~ 20000 miles of low stress utterly dull milage, this bloke can hardly claim to be a “Passionate” cyclist the hey day of British road cycling (which he will have lived through) seems to have totally bypassed him, instead he’s stuck on a 1950’s shopper expecting us all to marvel at him, I don’t…
There are lot’s of older people, many of them have done far more with their lives, than simply own and barely use a bike for 57 years…
Why doesn’t he just buy a Civic like all the other old duffers in Camb’s?
Now that's marketing!Shopper-core
monkeychild, I own the trademark and copyright on that one...! 8)
tinsy - Member
I bet he knows what the funny bits of tube in puncture kit are for...
Do you reckon his glue has dried up?
tinsy - MemberI bet he knows what the funny bits of tube in puncture kit are for...
Woods valves, aren't they? Brant used to send Inbreds out with woods valved tubes on.