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.
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