Old Cork Photos

[Stacky]

Happy days, being able to cycle a bike without looking like someone taking part in the Tour De France.

People in the 80's could just about afford a bike never and there was no safety requirements or cash for actual proper cycling clothes.

 

[Corks finest]

Savoy- great memories

 

[Corks finest]

In Dutch cities, as you probably know, almost no-one dresses like a cyclist while cycling. Go figure.

Not just the cities all over, the feckin lycra laddies here looks dopey
( Especially when up to 3 abreast on the Carrigaline - Ballygarvan rd and holding up everything without even thinking of moving in single formation the cunts)
Excuse me for boiling over into expletives)

 

[Corks finest]

People in the 80's could just about afford a bike never and there was no safety requirements or cash for actual proper cycling clothes.

100 pc correct,a bike then was a necessity for most ppl not a luxury item
No throw away society then,
Everything was repaired or stuck together

 

[Stacky]

100 pc correct,a bike then was a necessity for most ppl not a luxury item
No throw away society then,
Everything was repaired or stuck together

You would become an expert on all types of bike repairs and all for the pleasure of trying to cycle on potholed roads and dodging crap cars.

 

[Corks finest]

You would become an expert on all types of bike repairs and all for the pleasure of trying to cycle on potholed roads and dodging crap cars.

100 pc, I worked as a 13 ye old 50 plus weekends in Togher VG( now where Lidl is from memory)
To buy a chopper
Up to that id a high nelly type of yoke,
Parent's had nothing leftover with 8 of us
All of my contemporaries worked as bread,milk ,or paper boys etc
ALL had a good work ethic from 12 on ,
Did us no harm,
Picking stones,apples , strawberries,spuds etc etc
They're feckin ruined now,
Incidentally my mam taught us all to cook and sew and wash and clean.

 

[Corks finest]

You would become an expert on all types of bike repairs and all for the pleasure of trying to cycle on potholed roads and dodging crap cars.

I remember old escorts and opel.kadetts with plaster and sand and cement repairs
Exhausts stuck to getting with countless gas welds ,
Gunk and eggs hoping to stop leaks in the radiator
List goes on
They wouldn't believe it now

 

[Handy Run]

 

[Meridian]

1992 :

 

[Blue Jasmin]

Cork in the mid 90s, notice how few foreign looking faces are around. Also, how smaller and tidier the cars were, clothes were certainly less stylish than now and big hair was still a feature with the women.