Pedalling Dreams: The Raleigh Story

[Meejoir]

Just noticed this is about to start on BBC4. It'll probably be on iPlayer as well I'd guess....

 

[Gerard]

Recorded....looking forward to watching it.

 

[roadking]

Re:

It was very good, sadly charting the rise and fall of a great British company and institution - seen some of the footage before, some clips from British Transport Films (e.g continental touring).

Rk.

 

[daccordimark]

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.

 

[roadking]

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.

Yes, what the documentary didn't reveal was that Reg Harris recommended that Raleigh buy Carlton, and yes staff from both Nottingham and Woksop joined the SBDU.

Rk.

 

[Spokesmann]

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.

 

[Canuk]

Reg Harris was an extremely shrewd and canny operator.

 

[The History Man]

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.

 

[bagpuss]

Re:

No mention of the late Ray Booty's storming 100 mile record on a RRA .

 

[pigman]

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.

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.