[CR]Cycling Badge Was: Slide Rules

(Example: Racing:Jean Robic)

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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:12:59 -0400
To: classic list <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Roy H. Drinkwater" <roydrink@mac.com>
Subject: [CR]Cycling Badge Was: Slide Rules

This badge sounds intriguing to me, does anyone have a picture or link to what it looks like? If it's classic looking enough, maybe Chuck could make it into a t-shirt!

Roy "gonna order the Desgrange fixed t-shirt soon" Drinkwater Lititz "also got my slide rule out", PA


>Lawrence wrote:
>>Did anyone else on the list have to take the
>>cycling proficiency test at
>>school in England? (On a lugged steel bike of
>>course...) If so do you
>>still have the little triangular enamelled lapel
>>badge? You couldn't ride
>>your bicycle to school until you passed the test.
>
>I lost my badge years
>ago; wish I still had it...

Neill replied:
>Took my test in 1960, I think, at 7, on a BSA 3
>speed SA, with a dropped top-tube to accomodate
>my (then) short legs.
>The bike is gone, and so is the badge.