Another site for the Falcon maybe.

Gibbo2286 · Post by **Gibbo2286** » 17 Aug 2016, 10:51

Found this while looking for something else.

I've C&P the fifties cars but there are links in there for lots of other stuff.

http://www.retrowow.co.uk/50s.html

Post by **CitroJim** » 17 Aug 2016, 12:35

I love the jukebox at the top of the page

Post by **myglaren** » 17 Aug 2016, 17:47

I used to think the Teddy Boys looked übercool in their Zoot suits.

NewcastleFalcon · Post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 17 Aug 2016, 21:08

Thanks for the link Gibbo...I only enjoyed a single year of the 1950's, and can remember precisely nothing about it, although plenty of pictures of summer 1959 holiday in Scarborough, and the North Bay Minature Railway which as we found out this summer is still going with the same engines to this day. So its 1960's forward for the reminiscing for me!

Plenty of interest in that site to keep me amused. There's even interest in a picture of a dual carriageway from 1963

Regards Neil

Post by **KennyW** » 18 Aug 2016, 20:17

Is that Jim (citrojim) on his bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kenny

Post by **CitroJim** » 19 Aug 2016, 07:54

KennyW wrote:Is that Jim (citrojim) on his bike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks like me on my way to work Kenny!!!

Post by **KennyW** » 19 Aug 2016, 11:02

Just got back my bike after rear derailleur broke going downhill, I was lucky it didn't lock up the rear wheel and suffer a very bad crash.

Kenny

Gibbo2286 · Post by **Gibbo2286** » 19 Aug 2016, 11:31

KennyW wrote:Just got back my bike after rear derailleur broke going downhill, I was lucky it didn't lock up the rear wheel and suffer a very bad crash.

Kenny

I never liked that derailleur gear set up. preferred the Sturmey Archer gears, nobody in the UK seem to sell bikes with SA gears now, I asked a young guy in Halfords and he just looked blank.

Post by **KennyW** » 19 Aug 2016, 12:34

Sturmey Archer gears long time since I seen a bike with those type of gears. reminds me of vhs and betamax

Gibbo2286 · Post by **Gibbo2286** » 19 Aug 2016, 12:59

KennyW wrote:Sturmey Archer gears long time since I seen a bike with those type of gears. reminds me of vhs and betamax

Still available from online dealers and still very popular in the USA Kenny.

http://www.sturmey-archer.com/

Post by **Peter.N.** » 19 Aug 2016, 13:00

At least Sturmey Archer gears didn't used to bend if you dropped the bike, most of my bikes had them. The 50s were my formative years, I was 11 in 1950 started work in '54 repairing TVs, super job in those days, practically the only teenagers you would see driving cars then were TV engineers.

Peter

Post by **CitroJim** » 19 Aug 2016, 13:07

Shimamo do an 11 speed hub gear, called the Alfine, driven by a toothed belt (like a cam belt) which looks like the modern evolution of the old Sturmey Archer 3-speed...

Not cheap though... Here's some details of it...

Kenny, having a rear mech break is very unusual, what one is it and how exactly did it break? You're right about being lucky it did not result in a nasty crash... Thank goodness it didn't

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