| I wonder why we called them pushbikes? | | | | found her address; it had a big gate, long drive, with a |
| Maybe it was because we pushed them up hill before | | | | big house at the end of it. I knocked at the door, then a |
| they had gears! My first bike had gears lots of them, | | | | butler opened it saying "whom shall I say wants to see |
| straps on the pedals to keep your foot on the pedal | | | | me lady". (Me thinking she lived above a shop) We |
| so you could push it down and pull it up at the same | | | | went out for ages after that but people with that sort |
| time. My friend and I used to get our heads down and | | | | of money expect you to have a lot yourself, so we |
| push and pull those pedals and raced wherever we | | | | split up. Later on she sent me a letter asking me to |
| went. | | | | marry her and that she would buy a house and a car |
| The bikes then, were for ether racing or basic | | | | for me. But at the time I could not read or write, by the |
| run-around bikes. But since 1974 there has been | | | | time I found someone to read it for me, it was to late. |
| Mongoose Bicycles with 8 types of bike and over 40 | | | | There are many things you can do with the modern |
| models. In our travels we crashed loads of times and | | | | bikes, watching them clips on the internet of the thing |
| often had to bend our bikes back to shape. Now days | | | | they get up to now. But would you go out with a girl to |
| they just buy a new bit and fit it when someone gets | | | | a romantic place on a B.M.X, a Mountain Bike I |
| them home. But we had no phones and if we did, who | | | | suppose you could. Like my mother met my father by |
| would we phone as nobody else had one. We got | | | | cycling; they use to stop at the same cafe in 1930s |
| good at rebuilding our bikes. | | | | (which is no longer there now, the town to posh for a |
| We found some great places within 50 miles of our | | | | cafe its restaurants now). So without bikes I would not |
| houses. Those were the days, not a care in the world. | | | | have been here! |
| I remember one summer we found a river with a weir, | | | | Today they would not be able to put their picnic in the |
| mile away from the road. With a lot of people playing | | | | basket fixed on the handlebars! You have to wear a |
| in the river, with their bicycles everywhere, so we | | | | safety hat now, no long flowing hair. Its more of a |
| joined in. Two of the girls joined us and we became | | | | sport than a pleasure now. Cycling in the countryside, |
| friendly, meeting them every weekend. | | | | you see a lot more and you can just stop and lay in |
| My one asked me to visit her at her home. She gave | | | | the long grass looking at the sky, thinking of the future. |
| me her address and said, "see you next week". On | | | | In a car you would have to find somewhere to park |
| the way my chain came off, so I fixed it. Getting my | | | | and be where every one else is! |
| white shirt and shorts covered in oil from the chain. I | | | | |