An Amazing film. I know I'm years behind viewing this. I found this film that was shared on the Adventure Cycling Association Bike Bits newsletter recently. I'm in my 60's now and grew up in the 1960's-70's. From my very earliest age I used my bike for transportation to commute back and forth from school and just for enjoyment. Bill's commentary about the joy and adventure of cycling still resonates today. I'm so glad that I'm still able to cycle. I feel the same way he did. God Bless...Merry Christmas 🎄

The perfect type of film to show in schools, sadly the system does not want independent minds. Nor planting the seed that there is a life outside of mindless consumerism.. Chapeau Bill.

"People are gettin' too soft nowadays." Imagine this man coming back to this day and age ... .

Omg my mums in this, she's the bar tender 💕 thanks Dad for telling me about this 💙

I first watched this video(s) about 10 years ago and loved it having been a member of the CTC from an early age. I couldn't find the video again when I searched for it for years but saw an ad recently for the rough stuff fellowship and it must have awakened old memories. After years of searching I have finally found it again and It's just as good as I remember. Thanks for uploading. They don't make em like they used to.

Really enjoyed watching these clips of history, it’s was grand hearing his thoughts on the way society was moving forward in his time. Really wish more people would have listened...

This man is such an inspiration

So glad that you uploaded this as Bill was a great friend of my Papa's who often went biking with Bill.

This is wonderful. I first saw this on TV in 1988 and was so taken with Bill’s story. I’m glad to have found this again. The drumming up scene has stayed with me all these years. Thank you for posting.

I remember seeing this repeated in 1994 on BBC 2 in the U.K. on the “Look Stranger” serious of documentaries. The announcer on the end credits mentioned as an update that Bill had retired and was still cycling. The scene brewing up with the stove is brilliant. Few cyclists these days carry paraffin or petrol stoves as they consider them too heavy and bulky. I use a 1952 Monitor Tourist paraffin pressure stove when out cycling all day with friends as they are very versatile.

brilliant Bill And Jackie sure new how to cycle tour.i love that film thanks for shareing, btw are those lads still with us.

I remember those yellow capes in wet weather.

How much food did they have in their saddle bags?

This may sound weird, but every male rose aficionado I've ever known was a bad-ass.

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I went tae the lake district at 8 rolf

Scotland to the Lakes? At 12? Bloody Norah!

that's what saddle bags are for not a decoration