Waterford Cycling Club 1893

woody33 · 2020-11-28 11:30:00

Waterford cycle club 1896 Thanks to https://www.facebook.com/seany1974?__tn__=-UC*F Fabulous picture. Hardy men, I can't see brakes on any of the bikes, there is a bell or two though and the tandem seems to have a carbide lamp. You don't see many people cycling in bowler hats these days.…

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Waterford cycle club 1896
Thanks to https://www.facebook.com/seany1974?__tn__=-UC*F

Fabulous picture. Hardy men, I can't see brakes on any of the bikes, there is a bell or two though and the tandem seems to have a carbide lamp. You don't see many people cycling in bowler hats these days.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=534442&d=1606562632

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#2 28-11-2020 02:09PM

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Only one bike has a brake - the one to the left of the front wheel of the triplet (not a tandem).
Not sure when freewheels became common, but it's likely that all these bikes were fixed-wheel, which even today, counts as a brake.

Fabulous picture - here's the B&W original on the National Library's Flickr photstream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/11833296283/in/album-72157651599255125/

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#3 28-11-2020 02:22PM

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The original b&w photo is much better. Though I do hate colourised photos as general rule, the one there is badly done.

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#4 28-11-2020 03:26PM

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i suspect it was done by one of these machine learning colourisation processes. check out the face on the lad at the back, just a shade to the left of centre.

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#5 28-11-2020 06:09PM

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3 of them with cigarettes hanging ftom their lips, must have been torture on those bikes with those clothes too.

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#6 28-11-2020 07:27PM

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the bike at front left seems to have the pedals attached to the front axle.

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#7 28-11-2020 08:13PM

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magicbastarder wrote: »

the bike at front left seems to have the pedals attached to the front axle.

In the comments thread on the Flickr link I posted above, there is reference to this type of bike with this link:

http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/bikes-1800s/1896-1899-diamond-frames/1896-crypto-bantam/

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#8 29-11-2020 07:42PM

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Bet you they had endless committee meetings about weekend spins and sock length.

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#9 29-11-2020 10:14PM

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That's some chainring at the back of the tridem.

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#10 29-11-2020 10:17PM

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Be grand with three lads pushing it.

Scary to think of three lads on that (probably a combined weight of ~240KG) and only a fixed wheel for a brake.

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