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PULLEY CRANKS | 0:00:37 | 0:00:38 | |
Once upon a time, there was a man in a hurry. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
He ran and he ran and he ran. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
No need to run, go by train. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
Unfortunately, the train didn't stop at his station. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:37 | |
All right, then, try the bus. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
And when his turn came... "Sorry, full up." | 0:05:40 | 0:05:44 | |
Now what to do? | 0:05:45 | 0:05:46 | |
Wait for the next bus? | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
For the man in a hurry, for the man who wanted to get somewhere, | 0:05:49 | 0:05:53 | |
the problem was a real one. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:55 | |
BELL RINGS | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
And then he made a discovery...the bicycle. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:02 | |
Here at last was the solution to his problem, | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
a simple, practical, efficient, always available form of transport, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:10 | |
the bicycle. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:12 | |
Riding high, riding free, master of your own fate. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
This IS the way to travel. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
Your story now is clear to me, I see where lies the blame. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:31 | |
And when the jury does declare, I think they'll find the same. | 0:11:31 | 0:11:35 | |
ALL MUTTER | 0:11:35 | 0:11:38 | |
Now foreman of the jury speak, your verdict I will note. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
The boy is guilty, if it please Milord, by majority vote. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:53 | |
We find you guilty and I say you shall no longer ride. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:58 | |
For two long years, you'll have to walk. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:02 | |
Take that poor thing outside. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:04 | |
Augustus Windsor, the world's oldest living cyclist, | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
is going to turn a corner! | 0:13:51 | 0:13:54 | |
I do hope there are plenty of young cyclists watching this. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:56 | |
What a lot they can learn. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:58 | |
And now he's looking behind him, nothing too close. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:02 | |
He makes a signal, no doubt about that one. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
Absolutely clear what he's going to do. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
And now he moves to the centre of the road. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
He's stopped at the junction waiting for traffic. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
Now a watchful eye all round. | 0:14:12 | 0:14:15 | |
He signals again...and he's off! | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
A classic right-hand turn, every movement absolutely perfect. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:22 | |
That must be why he's stayed alive so long. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:26 | |
TICKING | 0:17:15 | 0:17:17 | |
GROANING | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
YAWNING | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
MAN SIGHS | 0:17:23 | 0:17:25 | |
A day older. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
HE SIGHS | 0:17:28 | 0:17:30 | |
Every morning now I'm awake before the alarm. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
Bad sign that. Never used to be like that. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
I lie here worrying. What about?! | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
About being set responsibilities says Tuffin. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
The longer I lie here the worse it gets. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:44 | |
WOMAN TALKS INDISTINCTLY I can hear people outside doing things. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:46 | |
Downstairs. They never worry. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:48 | |
Like regular, on the dot as usual. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
Punctuality is a virtue. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
Get yourself into a deep enough punctual rut, | 0:17:53 | 0:17:56 | |
then you don't have to think, so you don't worry. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
Listen to her downstairs. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:01 | |
..caught him the other morning looking at the back of his head... | 0:18:01 | 0:18:04 | |
Oh, shut up! Shut up! | 0:18:04 | 0:18:07 | |
-MAN CALLS: -Tony! I won't tell you again. | 0:18:07 | 0:18:11 | |
One. HE GROANS | 0:18:11 | 0:18:14 | |
HE YAWNS | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
-Two. -Tony! | 0:18:18 | 0:18:21 | |
Three. God, it's cold! | 0:18:21 | 0:18:24 | |
RADIO PIPS SOUND | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
BIRDSONG | 0:22:29 | 0:22:30 | |
THUNDER | 0:22:30 | 0:22:32 | |
-WOMAN: -The next train on platform five | 0:22:58 | 0:23:02 | |
will be the Cyclist Special Excursion to Rugby. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:05 | |
Will passengers travelling on this train | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
please go to the rear end of the platform. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
Rugby?! Who wants to go to Rugby?! | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
Well, wouldn't you like a day touring in wooded Warwickshire | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
or sturdy Leicestershire or historic Northamptonshire? | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
All right, then, Rugby's the place to start from. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
What about their bikes? | 0:23:22 | 0:23:23 | |
That's easy, just take some of the cycle vans from the runs to the continental ports | 0:23:23 | 0:23:27 | |
and put them in those. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
A properly equipped touring cycle | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
can be quite an expensive piece of machinery, | 0:23:37 | 0:23:39 | |
so what do the railways do? | 0:23:39 | 0:23:41 | |
They hang it on a rubber covered hook. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
And quite right too, | 0:23:43 | 0:23:44 | |
because after careful investigation | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
the Cycle Touring Commission of the International Touring Alliance | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
decided that this was THE way to carry cycles by train. | 0:23:50 | 0:23:55 | |
Most people, as soon as they get anywhere near a railway, | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
are suddenly attacked by pangs of insatiable hunger | 0:24:17 | 0:24:20 | |
or unquenchable thirst or both. | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
Especially if they've been up since seven o'clock. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:25 | |
Especially on a Sunday morning. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:27 | |
Especially if they're cyclists. | 0:24:27 | 0:24:30 | |
Well, there you are, | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
we've travelled to Rugby, toured through parts of Warwickshire, | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, history and the British character | 0:28:55 | 0:28:58 | |
and now we are going back home. All in one day. | 0:28:58 | 0:29:02 | |
But that's the sort of thing that happens on these excursions, | 0:29:02 | 0:29:05 | |
you can go farther and see countryside | 0:29:05 | 0:29:07 | |
that you'd never normally touch in a day's outing. | 0:29:07 | 0:29:09 | |
And on the way back, you can enjoy it all over again | 0:29:09 | 0:29:12 | |
by talking about it or dreaming about it. | 0:29:12 | 0:29:15 | |
Of the many sports that there are, | 0:33:20 | 0:33:22 | |
I never thought that I should become interested in cycling. | 0:33:22 | 0:33:25 | |
It's a sport that doesn't draw tremendous crowds, | 0:33:26 | 0:33:29 | |
but those who do follow it | 0:33:29 | 0:33:31 | |
do so with an enthusiasm that is quite catching. | 0:33:31 | 0:33:33 | |
So that I found it exciting to watch | 0:33:33 | 0:33:35 | |
and was then able to pick my own star to cheer for. | 0:33:35 | 0:33:38 | |
This is how I came to know a young cyclist | 0:33:46 | 0:33:48 | |
busy trying to reach the top class of the sport | 0:33:48 | 0:33:50 | |
and building up his stamina with roadwork. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:53 | |
This roadwork often takes him past one of those quiet country corners | 0:33:58 | 0:34:02 | |
which you can still find near London. | 0:34:02 | 0:34:04 | |
It is a favourite spot of mine | 0:34:05 | 0:34:07 | |
and now when Harry passes he stops to talk awhile. | 0:34:07 | 0:34:11 | |
During our talks, I learnt that Harry is a true amateur, | 0:34:14 | 0:34:19 | |
he doesn't make any money from his chosen sport, | 0:34:19 | 0:34:21 | |
indeed he has to meet his own expenses. | 0:34:21 | 0:34:24 | |
So, of course, he has to earn his own living. | 0:34:24 | 0:34:27 | |
But his work is intimately connected with cycling, | 0:34:27 | 0:34:29 | |
because he helps his father who has a cycle shop | 0:34:29 | 0:34:32 | |
and a small workshop which makes | 0:34:32 | 0:34:34 | |
special racing bicycles for special customers. | 0:34:34 | 0:34:37 | |
Harry suggested that I might like to come and see where he works. | 0:34:42 | 0:34:46 | |
One of the first things he did when I had located the shop | 0:34:46 | 0:34:49 | |
was to take me up the stairs to show me some of the cycles and equipment | 0:34:49 | 0:34:52 | |
that he and his father had made for famous cyclists. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:56 | |
He's particularly proud of the fact they have made machines | 0:34:57 | 0:35:00 | |
which have taken part in the great touring races. | 0:35:00 | 0:35:03 | |
In busy international events, in which Commonwealth teams take part, | 0:35:03 | 0:35:08 | |
the competitors have to cover 1,400 miles in a fortnight. | 0:35:08 | 0:35:13 | |
# This is the bike crossing the moor | 0:36:06 | 0:36:07 | |
# Living the dream of winning the tour | 0:36:07 | 0:36:09 | |
# Red and white blood cells locked in battle | 0:36:09 | 0:36:11 | |
# While passing those tolls for diesel or cattle... | 0:36:11 | 0:36:13 | |
# Up the jawbone, steady climb, | 0:36:20 | 0:36:22 | |
# The gradient's cruel | 0:36:22 | 0:36:23 | |
# And still on time | 0:36:23 | 0:36:25 | |
# Rocking and rolling, heartbeat pounding | 0:36:25 | 0:36:26 | |
# Fighting the physics, gasping, sounding... | 0:36:26 | 0:36:28 | |
# Legs of iron, legs of steel | 0:36:42 | 0:36:44 | |
# Legs of lead but hard to feel | 0:36:44 | 0:36:46 | |
# Cogs and cadence, revolutions | 0:36:46 | 0:36:48 | |
# Following signs through the motions | 0:36:48 | 0:36:51 | |
# A devil-may-care graceful tread | 0:36:53 | 0:36:55 | |
# A notice at the bar, a staring ahead | 0:36:55 | 0:36:57 | |
# Fingers clamped like vultures' claws | 0:36:57 | 0:36:59 | |
# In the gutter, looking at stars... | 0:36:59 | 0:37:02 | |
# The common or garden this is their story | 0:37:27 | 0:37:29 | |
# Adrenaline rush to pain and glory. # | 0:37:29 | 0:37:31 | |
He went on to show me that the cycles which are used | 0:37:46 | 0:37:48 | |
in this class of competition have some special features, | 0:37:48 | 0:37:51 | |
lightweight wheels and tyres which can be peeled off if they puncture. | 0:37:51 | 0:37:55 | |
I can think of many occasions when I'd have been glad of one like that. | 0:37:55 | 0:38:00 | |
While we had been talking, I had been busy sketching | 0:38:01 | 0:38:05 | |
and I was beginning to feel | 0:38:05 | 0:38:06 | |
that I was getting close to a likeness of Harry. | 0:38:06 | 0:38:09 | |
Our conversation switched again to racing | 0:38:09 | 0:38:12 | |
and the medals and trophies Harry had already won. | 0:38:12 | 0:38:15 | |
He reminded me that later that day I was to go along to the cycle track | 0:38:15 | 0:38:19 | |
to watch him put in some practice laps as a warm-up for a race that evening. | 0:38:19 | 0:38:24 | |
I was trying my hand at catching one or two action studies | 0:40:44 | 0:40:47 | |
and at one of the changeovers, Harry peeled off | 0:40:47 | 0:40:50 | |
and came across to see what progress I was making. | 0:40:50 | 0:40:53 | |
For me I was not only pleased with my sketches, | 0:41:04 | 0:41:06 | |
but that I had chosen a winner as my subject. | 0:41:06 | 0:41:10 | |
This is a Morley CC Film Unit production. | 0:41:19 | 0:41:23 | |
Bringing to you the British Cyclo-Cross Championship of 1962. | 0:41:23 | 0:41:29 | |
But first of all, we're here at the start of the women's event. | 0:41:29 | 0:41:33 | |
A preliminary event | 0:41:33 | 0:41:35 | |
run on the short lap of the championship course | 0:41:35 | 0:41:39 | |
on this classic circuit at Tingley. | 0:41:39 | 0:41:41 | |
You see them away now. | 0:41:46 | 0:41:48 | |
Beryl Burton of Morley CC is world champion | 0:41:48 | 0:41:51 | |
along with Valerie Rushworth | 0:41:51 | 0:41:54 | |
another national champion of the Monckton CC. | 0:41:54 | 0:41:58 | |
And as they go up the hill towards the Tingley Lane, | 0:41:58 | 0:42:00 | |
it's Valerie Rushworth who is leading from Beryl Burton. | 0:42:00 | 0:42:03 | |
The race is of a duration of four-and-a-half miles approximately | 0:42:03 | 0:42:07 | |
over this very rough course. | 0:42:07 | 0:42:09 | |
And there's Beryl, who has taken up the lead from Valerie. | 0:42:18 | 0:42:22 | |
As you see her climb over the wall, she enters into the field | 0:42:22 | 0:42:25 | |
and makes her way towards the stream down the hill. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:30 | |
And there's Valerie Rushworth | 0:42:35 | 0:42:36 | |
strongly challenging Beryl for second position. | 0:42:36 | 0:42:39 | |
And there goes Pauline. | 0:43:11 | 0:43:13 | |
If she carries on like that, | 0:43:13 | 0:43:14 | |
I'm afraid the bicycle won't last very much longer. | 0:43:14 | 0:43:17 | |
And there's Beryl coming towards the finish. | 0:43:49 | 0:43:53 | |
She must be the winner of this event. | 0:43:53 | 0:43:56 | |
And it follows the pattern | 0:43:56 | 0:43:58 | |
which is usually set by this brilliant woman cyclist. | 0:43:58 | 0:44:03 | |
Now here comes Beryl towards the finish. | 0:44:06 | 0:44:08 | |
Yes, Beryl Burton of Morley CC is the winner. | 0:44:08 | 0:44:13 | |
And she doesn't seem at all perturbed. | 0:44:13 | 0:44:15 | |
# Eyebrows upwards to the heavens | 0:44:27 | 0:44:29 | |
# When she said she rode a bike | 0:44:29 | 0:44:31 | |
# Beryl Burton local hero | 0:44:31 | 0:44:33 | |
# Never called just a wife... | 0:44:33 | 0:44:35 | |
# Rhubarb farmer, record breaker | 0:44:43 | 0:44:45 | |
# Leaving all the boys behind. | 0:44:45 | 0:44:47 | |
# Sweetly does it, consolation | 0:44:47 | 0:44:48 | |
# Oh, I'm sure they won't mind... | 0:44:48 | 0:44:50 | |
# Come along, Beryl, stop your knitting | 0:45:28 | 0:45:30 | |
# No-one could ever stand in her way | 0:45:30 | 0:45:32 | |
# Hard as nails, an inspiration | 0:45:32 | 0:45:34 | |
# Her spirit'll never fade away. # | 0:45:34 | 0:45:36 | |
-Morning, George. -Morning, Charles. -Morning. | 0:45:56 | 0:45:59 | |
Now, suppose...just suppose you fall off your bike, | 0:46:02 | 0:46:06 | |
suppose your brakes give out. | 0:46:06 | 0:46:08 | |
Ambulance. | 0:46:27 | 0:46:29 | |
Ambulance. | 0:46:44 | 0:46:46 | |
-Ambulance. -Look again at this dangerous cyclist. | 0:46:49 | 0:46:52 | |
HORN TYRES SCREECH | 0:46:52 | 0:46:54 | |
Ambulance. | 0:46:54 | 0:46:56 | |
Phew! Glad that's over. | 0:49:18 | 0:49:20 | |
A decade ago, some scientists could say space flight is unthinkable. | 0:49:24 | 0:49:29 | |
Now giant radio dishes send and receive television pictures | 0:49:30 | 0:49:34 | |
by means of satellites in outer space. | 0:49:34 | 0:49:37 | |
The specialist who told this man his heart was too weak | 0:49:37 | 0:49:40 | |
and he would never walk again could not know | 0:49:40 | 0:49:42 | |
how soon research would produce an answer. | 0:49:42 | 0:49:45 | |
Now, a few years later, only an occasional check-up is needed | 0:49:47 | 0:49:51 | |
to ensure that his heart is beating regularly. | 0:49:51 | 0:49:54 | |
The control is electronic. | 0:49:54 | 0:49:56 | |
A wire goes up the artery... | 0:50:03 | 0:50:05 | |
..is looped just under the skin of his neck... | 0:50:08 | 0:50:11 | |
..and connects to a control unit buried under the armpit. | 0:50:14 | 0:50:18 | |
The control is electronic. | 0:50:26 | 0:50:28 | |
# The control is electronic | 0:50:41 | 0:50:43 | |
# Electronic | 0:50:48 | 0:50:50 | |
# The control is electronic | 0:50:57 | 0:50:58 | |
# Electronic | 0:51:04 | 0:51:05 | |
# His heart is beating regularly | 0:51:42 | 0:51:44 | |
# His heart is beating regularly. # | 0:51:49 | 0:51:51 | |
MAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY | 0:56:58 | 0:57:00 | |
Go! | 0:57:08 | 0:57:09 |