Seeing this magazine The Moultoneer I had a blast from the cycling past.
My Sister had a Moulton Mini when I was a kid. I recall it clearly, maybe having a big turnable handle on the central rod. It could come apart I think or maybe even fold?
Did you have a Moulton Mini?
Here's one at the V&A Museum. But where's the turnable handle?
What a blast from the saddled past, cycle streamers! Yes! I had these on my bike, catching the wind from the handlebars as I zoomed down the streets in the Sixties. This is the first packet I've seen since. Unsure how mine were bought, maybe loose from a rack in a cycle shop.
Did you have streamers on your pushbike?
PS.
Reader MJ from Soathcoast Base has sent in a pic of the classic tassels he still has on his pushbike!
I was in a bike shop yesterday looking at stuff for my Grandson. Staring at all those shiny bells and bike pumps brought it all back, the fab kid pushbike culture of the early Seventies. What fun!
I remember the bikes I had, a Raleigh Chopper and a Moulton Mini and maybe another 'normal' one, over those formative years. Bikes and kids were inseparable, like Romans and chariots. They were our chariots as we Ben-Hur'd through the streets to the local park!
I remember all the accessories you could get: the mirrors, the handlebar tassels, the wonderfully loud bells, the pavelco gears, the lights, the dynamos and the cool metallic decals.
Best of all were the DIY accessories, especially the spoke clickers. I adored those things, which were basically thick card attached to the bike frame with a strong clothes peg. The card would click like mad as the spokes went round. What a racket they made but wow, great fun!
I can feel the wind rushing past me now as I free-wheeled down the hill, legs high, tassels flying and the spoke clickers clacking like castanets. Get out of the way! Blimey, what great fun it was!
Did you accessorise your bike as a kid readers?
