BYGONES BYKES
(YORKSHIRE) CLUB
This club was founded in the spring of 1976. This was by Bill
Austy and his brothers Ken and Eric all three of them being keen
Wakefield cyclists. Bill had got a unknown old cycle which he
later found out after some research abut it, that it was a Quadrant
shaft drive cycle made by Lloyd Bros in Birmingham in 1898. The
seeds had been set and other cycles were collected by friends.
These included solid tyred cycles and tricycles and ordinaries.
These came out of attics and cellars and formed a collection of
bygones. This was then decided on as the name of the new club.
The number of members is now around the hundred mark. these members
aim to restore there cycles to the condition that they were when
first made. these members ride in the costume for the year of
the cycle they are riding. The club attends fetes and galas along
with traction engine rallies. the club also attends the other
clubs rallies. The club has hosted the National rally in 1973-1977-1982-1990
and then again in 2000.
2000 NAVCC RALLY
In the year 2000, about 200 cycles attended The NAVCC rally
around Northallerton. Their were ordinaries and boneshakers, tricycles
and tandems, these were ridden about ten miles around this market
town.This was 44th Annual Rally of the National Association of
Veteran Cycle Clubs.This was a three day rally, organised by Bygone
Bikes on behalf of the NAVCC and was sponsored by the Hambleton
District Council. A one-off Millennium trophy was awarded by the
Authority for the best overall entry. This was won by eighty year
old Sidney Johnson of Thetford on his 1905 Dursley Pederson.
