8 min film of late 50`s Cyclo X

[Darryl Webster]

Absalulty brilliant 8 min film of a Yorkshire(?) race approx late 50`s. (1960 edit by mod)
Including river crossing!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=158426667514240

Enjoy!

 

[Anonymous]

Holy hell.. rivers?

 

[Hoekstyn]

Absalulty brilliant 8 min film of a Yorkshire(?) race approx late 50`s.
Including river crossing!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=158426667514240

Enjoy!

Thanks so much for sharing that. That's what I was involved in in Holland in the early 60s. First on an old Raleigh, then I thought I died and went to heaven when I got a French Al touring bike (I think it was a LeJeune, or a Mercier) from my Grandpa. Usually you rode what you brung and then rode it back home again too. And Paris- Roubaix looks tough?
Brought back some great memories.
Hoek.

 

[donald_w7]

Awesome! Another technique to add to mounting, dismounting, shouldering etc. : throwing the bike accross a river!

 

[krebs303]

Thanks for that. Imagine taking your carbon fiber bike and tossing it in the river.
I liked the guy with the flat bars

 

[Clearly Unstable]

Clearly using techniques perfected while storming the German line across no-mans-land during WW I.

 

[TexPat]

You'll love these photos from the early years of cyclocross:
http://www.blackbirdsf.org/cx/2007_01.html

Thanks Darryl for the great video!

 

[Lupetto]

Cyclocross Montmartre 1943
Cyclocross Montmartre 1945

 

[Darryl Webster]

Cyclocross Montmartre 1943
Cyclocross Montmartre 1945

Briliant!.."Cyclo X" without the mud..That looks like an idea ripe for revival...city centre cyclo X!

 

[tifosa]

That looks like an idea ripe for revival...city centre cyclo X!

Definitely! Urban X. Great to see such passionate crowds.

Any possibility of providing a non-Facebook link for the original post?

 

[mulletCobra]

Any possibility of providing a non-Facebook link for the original post?

I 2nd this motion. Tried to share it with a friend on twitter and he doesn't have a fb account.

 

[Darryl Webster]

Definitely! Urban X. Great to see such passionate crowds.

Any possibility of providing a non-Facebook link for the original post?

Sorry peeps, dont know the original source. If somone does a screen recording they could then upload it to U tube I guess?

 

[TexPat]

It's here:
http://www.thebikehutt.blogspot.com/

 

[krebs303]

Once I translated to English this race was in 1994. go to and listen between 3:40 and 4 min. It's still outstanding.