Pedalling Dreams: The Raleigh Story
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daccordimark
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I enjoyed it and even my wife and daughter watched it too.
The piece about the 10 year old girl who rode to Rhyl in a day from Huddersfield was very interesting given the achievement and the local interest for me as resident of the area.
With all the mentions of Raleigh's acquisitions I was disappointed that they didn't mention Carlton.
As I understand it the SBDU (which they did have a little segment on) wouldn't have been what it was without the expertise that came from Worksop.
Feel free to put me right if I've got my history a little skewed!
Mark.
The piece about the 10 year old girl who rode to Rhyl in a day from Huddersfield was very interesting given the achievement and the local interest for me as resident of the area.
With all the mentions of Raleigh's acquisitions I was disappointed that they didn't mention Carlton.
As I understand it the SBDU (which they did have a little segment on) wouldn't have been what it was without the expertise that came from Worksop.
Feel free to put me right if I've got my history a little skewed!
Mark.
Not one mention of the mighty Carlton, and how the head man later headed up the SBDU. A great watch none the less, left me feeling somewhat deflated for yet another demise of a fine manufacturing business in the UK.
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Could have been extended to a couple of hours to cover all aspects in a bit more depth. A bit of a mixture of company and social history.
remember this is a BBc documentary aimed at the cycling layman, who maybe has a few fond memories of cycling in his/her youth, but wouldn't really want to watch anything in-depth cycling. Plus Raleigh was a name we grew up with, so an element of where-are-they-now? thrown in.The History Man":3gopk2w0 said:
Had it been 2 hours, I may not have recorded it, but that probably says more about me being unable to sit doing nothing for any length of time. 90% of what I watch are maximum 1 hour self contained programmes.
