They don't make 'em like that any more – a school caretaker has revealed that he's ridden the same bike every day for nearly 60 years.
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.
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.
And the grandfather-of-four still rides it half-a-mile twice a day to his current job as caretaker at Robert Arkenstall School in Haddenham.
He bought the bike after discovering his love for cycling while working as a grocery delivery boy after leaving school at 15.
Mr Hook said the bike was an example of British craftsmanship at its best.
He told the Telegraph: ''I used to go past the bike in the store window and for a long time I could only dream of buying it and I would stare at it for hours.
''When I left school and found a job I went straight down to the store and bought the bike with an agreement to pay for it in monthly instalments.
''I remember thinking it was an absolute beauty and I have used it nearly every day since and it has never let me down once.”
From your own link there:...
Maybe take some drugs to calm your nerves...
So...don't cycle on it. Lots of other routes around that area. Source: I used to work there.
I'm not sure that aero carbon fiber bike would have been much use in such circumstances. But a gravel bike, well that's another story...
So, do those buses do as much damage per person as a w@nkpanzer?
Armando Iannucci "Today is Day One of humanity’s Idiolithic Era."
My photochromic specs have just turned up in the post today
It's not just cycling shoes, walking boots have the same problem. A long time ago I was told I had Germanic feet and those of us descended from...
Downhill Alpe d'Huez TT would be _awesome_. And someone should organise one for real!...
Custom bikes used to be for life....