[brooksby]

[quote]

The work of the farm labourer, ditcher, hedger, market gardener or teacher could not go on if it were not for the ordinary safety bicycle

[/quote]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/13/country-diary-1948-role-of-the-bike-in-rural-life

Topic

[Creakingcrank]

Ha! Yes all good. All I lost

Ha! Yes all good. All I lost that day were some naive ideas about life in the country.

[chrisonabike]

Did you check afterwards that

Did you check afterwards that all your locked bikes were still there?

[Creakingcrank]

A guy with one of those knife

A guy with one of those knife grinding bicycles turned up in our village just a few years ago. I was thrilled to see it and asked if he could sharpen a few of our kitchen knives. He confirmed my address and said he would be round in due course. Later that day, he arrived in a car with a battery powered angle grinder and did a bad job on all the knives. Ho hum.

[chrisonabike]

Ah, the Granuida – printing
Ah, the Granuida – printing rubbish even then. Everyone knows that without motor vehicles you can’t work or even get food in the country!

https://tradesmansbike.wordpress.com/

[Author]

Replies