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Brooklands Museum: Raleighing cry

Posted on 12 August 202120 August 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Brooklands Museum is a motor-sport Mecca, full of racing memorabilia, with bus and plane museums too. But it also has a very good little bike museum, mainly vintage Raleighs, and I enjoyed poking round it today.

The museum itself is conveniently accessed by bike, traffic-free from Weybridge station (though their website irritatingly does not mention bike access at all). A tarmac pedestrian and cycle path runs west through the car park, under the rail line, down a hill, over the Wey and back under the rail line, and right to the museum’s main entrance opposite Mercedes Benz World.

The Brooklands website has a comprehensive catalogue of the bikes, but here are some highlights of the collection…

Words had different connotations in 1889. But does that make a bike lane for this machine a Psycho Path?
Early adopters: Front suspension, 1901-style, and front lights from the same period
H&S was different then: Child-carrying sidecar from 1938
Rudge racer: State of the art bike tech circa 1880
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