That's the Southern California 3 speed club: http://www.threespeedtouringclub.com/
The motto is "cycling for pleasure not penance". The site has links to those 50s British videos. They are worth a few minutes viewing time. It's a spacious tent; British content not req'd and wear what you want. At the last event James showed up with his Riv sporting a single cog with a triple crank, qualifying it as a 3 speed. Andy brought his Atlantis so he was limited to a single cog to avoid disqualification. Our response to the obvious question "What is the point of all this?" is quite simple: Lunch! FWIW, the instigator of these shenanigans sometimes ride a 4 speed but it's hard to tell. dougP On Jun 8, 5:16 pm, Peter Pesce <[email protected]> wrote: > I think things like these english 3 speed rides are sorely lacking from our > current cycling universe. There was that great YouTube video posted a few > months back of a British cycling club outing in the 50's. It was a day trip > by train, enabling city folk to ride around in the country and have picnics > etc. Everyone rode normal bikes, dressed in normal clothes, and there seemed > to be an almost equal number of men and women. > I have yet to find more than a handful of "clubs" in America that would even > contemplate such a thing. There are the arementioned, plus a club in CA > called the West Coast Three Speed Society or something like that. Nothing on > the east coast that I'm aware of. And these clubs seem a bit snobby in their > own right, excluding bikes of the same spirit in the name of purity. The Riv > rallies and S24Os posted here come closest to the 50's spirit I guess. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
