Are you still riding guys? Because i want join you. I live in st albans.
@peterfisher4736Ай бұрын
That looked painful. Looking around rather than straight ahead? Pleased you are taking a scenic JOG route. So much more pleasurable than busy roads. Scotland is a lot easier, especially north of Inverness. I completed the LeJOG both ways as a solo rider taking routes less travelled though further! Still enjoy assuming your accident does not affect you going forward.
@countfosco8535Ай бұрын
10:18
@mngyuan4 ай бұрын
Nice! You mentioned you rode some of the ride in your younger years, I’m curious to know how the cycle infrastructure has changed over the decades
@user-kj6ww2mr1c4 ай бұрын
What a beautiful spring-like morning!
@krtt7504 ай бұрын
Are silly helmets mandatory in England? Of all places to become afraid of life, this a place I never would have expected.
@Gribbo99994 ай бұрын
Looking forward to 90@90! Not sure I'll still be here in a decade but as a 73 year old daily cyclist I say bravo and it gives me a boost to know I might yet have few more spins left in my legs. Well done!
@mikehedges59544 ай бұрын
Amazing ride, inspirational. Thanks for sharing.
@yorkshirelad35245 ай бұрын
Your going to have to stop putting up old films because there isn’t a majority of black peoples in the films so going against globalist BBC C4 msm propaganda that Britain is a Black Country and was built by black peoples
The 60’s, the decade of never ending roadworks! Should have dubbed the video , with a call to prayer even ,anything would be preferable to the awful noise of jackhammers!
@claudiuandanuta57128 ай бұрын
Good morning. In which area do you pedal? I live in Rochester am a bike enthusiast and want to join your group
@Alice-hk9hn9 ай бұрын
The projector sound is excruciating to listen to.
@keithedmundson23187 ай бұрын
Turned the volume down.😊
@Dawn-Songs3 ай бұрын
??? Just turn the volume off !!
@geoffcrisp72259 ай бұрын
This is the London of my teens, living in the NW suburbs we would go into the West End Friday and Saturday night's. Tiffanys night club in Shaftesbury Ave was a regular haunt, then onto a late bar or club in SOHO. Safe to walk around if on your own, few people not born in London wandering around. Leicester Square has been destroyed by over development and tacky fast food joints. Few buskers or street entertainers now. I don't feel at home in Central London anymore.
@highpath47768 ай бұрын
Done some early mornings around Oxford St when Elizabeth Line first opened and up at Warren Street for some riding old buses but London has changed, some of the films on YT show that skyline change at street level. I will probably get to Hamleys for Christmas but it gets difficult to get out and about. I was always aware of central london - probably from watching Simon Dee time on BBC , but never really went there other than a school coach tour at the end of the 60s yet somehow I knew where everything was. I suppose we went by car from South London to visit relations in Clapton so that covered London Bridge inc its rebuilding and I would go with Dad to a mission hall in waterloo on sunday afternoons doing tea for the rough sleepers in the area travelling on the much reduced weekend rail services. Was much older to do a deliberate trip to Trafalgar Square , then had some monthly meetings of a club in Farringdon (sometimes we used the Lamb and Flag in Kensington) and I must have visited my Cousin in Knightsbridge when she was a trainee nurse at St Georges Hospital Hyde Park Corner. Mid Teens I was all over Greater London travelling most bus services (couldnt afford rail) and it just seemed I knew everywhere and felt at home in the street markets of Fulham or the dying docklands of Canning Town. Went too with Dad early morning to Covent Garden Market to get boxes of produce for the church harvest festival. I should have made more out of the opportunity of working in the city If I had thought at the time.
@henrysmith8838 ай бұрын
‘Safe to walk around cos there were few people not born in London’. Had to get that bit in didn’t you. How do you know where people were born - ask to see their birth certificates did you. Or do you mean black and Asian people in which case spell it out.
@highpath47768 ай бұрын
@@henrysmith883 I am so happy knowing everyone born within the M25 does not aspire to be landed with a criminal record. (TBH there was a problem with EE gangs coming over with a pickpocketing epidemic a few years ago in the touristy street places,. the present wheeze is the street begging - mostly using old (looking) indian ladies - its not agressive , just untidy !
@th82576 ай бұрын
It's weird how you seem to equate safety with people born in London. In fact, London was and always has been absolutely full of people not born in London. Interesting that you don't seem to have mentioned what was going on in and around Piccadilly at the time, which was absolutely notorious for drugs and as a pickup site for dirty old men preying on underage kids.
@gavc64429 ай бұрын
Get rid of that horrible noise please
@clivebaxter63549 ай бұрын
Not like that now is it!
@highpath47768 ай бұрын
yeah , someone took away all the neons at picc circ and changed all the buses.
@_B.M_8 ай бұрын
No shit sherlock. Its been like 60 years. Is anywhere in the whole world the same as it was back then??
@horsenuts18319 ай бұрын
Amazing, thank you. This is wonderful.
@seekingtruth41059 ай бұрын
No migrants or not allowed to say anything else 😢
@howareyou8579 ай бұрын
Yeah you are so oppressed...yet here you are speaking your mind
@seekingtruth41059 ай бұрын
@@howareyou857 oh dear another knuckledraging woke
@howareyou8579 ай бұрын
@@seekingtruth4105 Still providing us with evidence of your 'oppression' by calling people who disagree with you stupid names. 🙄 Sooooo oppressed....
@seekingtruth41059 ай бұрын
@@howareyou857 yeah
@howareyou8579 ай бұрын
@@seekingtruth4105 sure you are 🙄🤣
@griswald71569 ай бұрын
I ate my first pizza in Piccadilly Circus in about 1969…
@stephenspence11929 ай бұрын
Any good?
@griswald71569 ай бұрын
@@stephenspence1192 i realise now it was pretty bad…but as it was my first i thought mm that was reasonable.. But since then Pizza has been developed and have become luxurious… The 1969 Piccadilly one was about the size of a saucer it was hard solid construction with a sprinkle of cheese and a black olive in the middle..it left me confused as to why they were popular in Italy…i would have preferred just a cheese on toast on that day…it was more of a cultural continental foray..i wouldnt describe it as delicious…no way..i dont think you could buy a Dona kebab in London in 1969..but egg and chips was easy to come by at the “golden egg” in Leicester Square
@stephenspence11929 ай бұрын
@@griswald7156 I thought as much. The frozen pizzas in the early 1970s were nothing to write home about. I shudder to think what an Italian would have thought of them. Thank you for your reply.
@highpath47768 ай бұрын
@@griswald7156 Pizza Express in 1975 in Wimbledon Villiage , it was wet. Only had one (maybe two, Pizza Express ones since just to try and see If I was wrong). Used to go when a student to an independent 9pm on Thursdays opposite Liverpool Street station, they were Italians and about 12 of us would go , sharing the slices around was much better. Best Pizza I had was in Morningside, Edinburgh in 1993
@th82576 ай бұрын
Hope you got out as quickly as possible after that. It was an incredibly sleazy and notorious place back then .
@ianthompson6629 ай бұрын
when England was England and not full of illegal immigrants.
@howareyou8579 ай бұрын
Don't be ridiculous
@horsenuts18319 ай бұрын
Oh, bless you, you've been groomed. It's fascinating how the simple-minded can be controlled so easily.
@ianthompson6629 ай бұрын
yes i was groomed back in the 1950's when this country was not full of illegal immigrants and a better place to live. @@horsenuts1831
@acptelford13079 ай бұрын
@@horsenuts1831So where’s all the ethnics in these films?
@_B.M_8 ай бұрын
Get your facts right. Most immigrants are legal. Yes, i agree there are some illegal ones but to say england is 'full' of them is pretty stupid
@tattyshoesshigure57319 ай бұрын
I really liked the old neon signs at Piccadilly Circus, they had a warmth & character that cold soulless LED screens lack. You often see the neons as ‘scene setting’ shots in 1960’s TV shows like The Saint & Dial 999… also in feature films when a bright lights, big city type theme needs to be established.
@th82576 ай бұрын
Swings and roundabouts. The old neon lights may have been nicer, but back then the rest of Piccadilly was horrific. It was notorious for drugs and dirty old men picking up underage kids.
@tattyshoesshigure57316 ай бұрын
@@th8257…whereas these days it’s notorious for robbery, violent assault, sexual offences & anti-social behaviour. So no change there then!
@seansmith44510 ай бұрын
Is that background noise really necessary?
@Dawn-Songs3 ай бұрын
Simply just turn the sound off !! 🙄
@Slinkygal10 ай бұрын
Too much noise to watch.
@clayfarnet97011 ай бұрын
I don’t understand why my 2013 bmw r1200rt has a buttery smooth transmission. It feels smooth like a Honda transmission whereas my 1997 r850r has the classic clunky trans that feels un-natural when shifting. I can’t help wonder if I’m lucky or I’ll be replacing the trans soon.
@davidhathaway8271 Жыл бұрын
Would have been better if it wasn't for the pretend camera noise ( which I turned off ) 60's music would be more appropriate.
@lauraarcher17309 ай бұрын
But that is exactly the sound you would hear if you were watching a home movie. Really authentic.
@John-ls2gp9 ай бұрын
Jackhammer
@davidhathaway82719 ай бұрын
@@lauraarcher1730 Yes I accept what you say but still a bit irritating! Cheers.
@Merseysiderful Жыл бұрын
1:52 That woman is gorgeous !
@garyrigby21 Жыл бұрын
wasn't Swinging London in 1966 though?
@garyrigby21 Жыл бұрын
Lovely footage takes me right back to being a kid in the sixties
@johnnyb8825 Жыл бұрын
That's pretty good quality for film that old.
@frankgerner9822 Жыл бұрын
Geoff great video, you are a warrior battling cancer. You rock! Bunkie
@johnnyb8825 Жыл бұрын
Bloody hippies! Where are the skinheads? 😉
@marthasheilds24469 ай бұрын
Skinheads more 1980s.
@johnnyb88259 ай бұрын
@@marthasheilds2446 The original skinheads were from around 1968 to 1972. They evolved from working class mods.
@noelsalisbury7448 Жыл бұрын
If this was LA , Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention could do the voiceover from 'Plastic People' " I hear the sound of marching feet, down Sunset Boulevard to Crescent Heights and ... there at Pandora's Box .... we are confronted with a vast quantity of Plastic People " .... Substitute 'Pandora's Box' with the Statue of Eros and there's no a great difference 😄
@stud1059 ай бұрын
Well the weather and the age of London compared to LA.
@michaelkenny8540 Жыл бұрын
At 13:50, the dangers of bending over in a mini-skirt. Looks like the same woman at 11:32 to 11:37
@deegeraghty9426 Жыл бұрын
Me too. London was a generous, relaxed, tolerant city. We really believed things would get better for everyone. Thank you.
@johnnyb8825 Жыл бұрын
What helped was that the post-WW2 economic boom was at its peak in the 1960s.
@griswald71569 ай бұрын
@@cliff-nb6bmand ridiculously expensive…
@ianbeauchamp9944 Жыл бұрын
Stay strong Geoff. Best Wishes Tree..... Nottingham
@phillipsmiley5930 Жыл бұрын
Dr Burzynski discovered the cause of cancer 40 years ago, Peptide, amino acid deficiency
@timbrooks2763 Жыл бұрын
I have a very good feeling about you :) Strong in mind and body, god bless you sir !
@DavidBhoy1967 Жыл бұрын
Best of luck and please keep the diary updated! You look fit and healthy so I’m sure you will be fine and have many years of cycling to look forward to. I liked the clip of the wee cat at the end as well lol
@statosphereonline2008 Жыл бұрын
What a wonderful attitude to have. I can see your broadcasting experience in your video. Felt like it was part of a news report. Keep cycling. Cancer can't stop you having fun while you can! I hope the surgery goes well!
@76-UVB Жыл бұрын
Good luck to you sir, you certainly have the right mindset and thank you for sharing your experience it will certainly be beneficial to others. Hopefully you will be back cycling sooner rather than later.
@Bikervation Жыл бұрын
A day at at a time, your in my thoughts. x
@TheMegazaya Жыл бұрын
Wish we had an over 40s here. Interesting inspirational channel. I will subscribe
@tectorama Жыл бұрын
A victim of the General's vanity.
@giuseppe9145 Жыл бұрын
Thank you sir for your story and your service
@silverstars7882 Жыл бұрын
I was 22 in 1969 living in London and having a fantastic life. Happy days.
@gezbo66 Жыл бұрын
I was 3 then and quite happy too.😀
@johnnyb8825 Жыл бұрын
@@gezbo66 I was 3 too (which I vaguely remember). The passage of time blows my mind sometimes!
@marilyngable39811 ай бұрын
I agree! I was 21, London was an exciting time. There was an air of expectancy, that anything could happen. I lived, and still do, in the 'burbs,' but every Saturday night we went 'up West.' The restaurants were fantastic, lots of bistros as I remember, with live music, and very small dance floors! If I wasn't with a boyfriend, then there were some great clubs/discos to dance the night away. So happy I was the age I was, in this era.
@th82576 ай бұрын
It's great being young isn't it
@AnniePA1960 Жыл бұрын
This is not the happy swinging London. These kids look like they're on heroin. More like early 70s?
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Are you still riding guys? Because i want join you. I live in st albans.
That looked painful. Looking around rather than straight ahead? Pleased you are taking a scenic JOG route. So much more pleasurable than busy roads. Scotland is a lot easier, especially north of Inverness. I completed the LeJOG both ways as a solo rider taking routes less travelled though further! Still enjoy assuming your accident does not affect you going forward.
10:18
Nice! You mentioned you rode some of the ride in your younger years, I’m curious to know how the cycle infrastructure has changed over the decades
What a beautiful spring-like morning!
Are silly helmets mandatory in England? Of all places to become afraid of life, this a place I never would have expected.
Looking forward to 90@90! Not sure I'll still be here in a decade but as a 73 year old daily cyclist I say bravo and it gives me a boost to know I might yet have few more spins left in my legs. Well done!
Amazing ride, inspirational. Thanks for sharing.
Your going to have to stop putting up old films because there isn’t a majority of black peoples in the films so going against globalist BBC C4 msm propaganda that Britain is a Black Country and was built by black peoples
Battersea's fun fair
All that biking will keep you fit young'uns😊
What's this annoying drill noise 😊 turned off 😊
Minijupes Minirobes inventeur Lucien David LANGMAN Maître Tailleur Couturier AH 1959-1960 ©️ institution de la Mode Française JEAN RAYMOND Paris. Mary Quant s'habille à Paris et Saint Tropez avec les minijupes Minirobes Lucien David LANGMAN
Inventeur des minijupes et minirobes Lucien David LANGMAN Maître Tailleur Couturier AH 1959-1960 ©️ institution de la Mode Française JEAN RAYMOND Paris les frères Raymond et Lucien David LANGMAN
The 60’s, the decade of never ending roadworks! Should have dubbed the video , with a call to prayer even ,anything would be preferable to the awful noise of jackhammers!
Good morning. In which area do you pedal? I live in Rochester am a bike enthusiast and want to join your group
The projector sound is excruciating to listen to.
Turned the volume down.😊
??? Just turn the volume off !!
This is the London of my teens, living in the NW suburbs we would go into the West End Friday and Saturday night's. Tiffanys night club in Shaftesbury Ave was a regular haunt, then onto a late bar or club in SOHO. Safe to walk around if on your own, few people not born in London wandering around. Leicester Square has been destroyed by over development and tacky fast food joints. Few buskers or street entertainers now. I don't feel at home in Central London anymore.
Done some early mornings around Oxford St when Elizabeth Line first opened and up at Warren Street for some riding old buses but London has changed, some of the films on YT show that skyline change at street level. I will probably get to Hamleys for Christmas but it gets difficult to get out and about. I was always aware of central london - probably from watching Simon Dee time on BBC , but never really went there other than a school coach tour at the end of the 60s yet somehow I knew where everything was. I suppose we went by car from South London to visit relations in Clapton so that covered London Bridge inc its rebuilding and I would go with Dad to a mission hall in waterloo on sunday afternoons doing tea for the rough sleepers in the area travelling on the much reduced weekend rail services. Was much older to do a deliberate trip to Trafalgar Square , then had some monthly meetings of a club in Farringdon (sometimes we used the Lamb and Flag in Kensington) and I must have visited my Cousin in Knightsbridge when she was a trainee nurse at St Georges Hospital Hyde Park Corner. Mid Teens I was all over Greater London travelling most bus services (couldnt afford rail) and it just seemed I knew everywhere and felt at home in the street markets of Fulham or the dying docklands of Canning Town. Went too with Dad early morning to Covent Garden Market to get boxes of produce for the church harvest festival. I should have made more out of the opportunity of working in the city If I had thought at the time.
‘Safe to walk around cos there were few people not born in London’. Had to get that bit in didn’t you. How do you know where people were born - ask to see their birth certificates did you. Or do you mean black and Asian people in which case spell it out.
@@henrysmith883 I am so happy knowing everyone born within the M25 does not aspire to be landed with a criminal record. (TBH there was a problem with EE gangs coming over with a pickpocketing epidemic a few years ago in the touristy street places,. the present wheeze is the street begging - mostly using old (looking) indian ladies - its not agressive , just untidy !
It's weird how you seem to equate safety with people born in London. In fact, London was and always has been absolutely full of people not born in London. Interesting that you don't seem to have mentioned what was going on in and around Piccadilly at the time, which was absolutely notorious for drugs and as a pickup site for dirty old men preying on underage kids.
Get rid of that horrible noise please
Not like that now is it!
yeah , someone took away all the neons at picc circ and changed all the buses.
No shit sherlock. Its been like 60 years. Is anywhere in the whole world the same as it was back then??
Amazing, thank you. This is wonderful.
No migrants or not allowed to say anything else 😢
Yeah you are so oppressed...yet here you are speaking your mind
@@howareyou857 oh dear another knuckledraging woke
@@seekingtruth4105 Still providing us with evidence of your 'oppression' by calling people who disagree with you stupid names. 🙄 Sooooo oppressed....
@@howareyou857 yeah
@@seekingtruth4105 sure you are 🙄🤣
I ate my first pizza in Piccadilly Circus in about 1969…
Any good?
@@stephenspence1192 i realise now it was pretty bad…but as it was my first i thought mm that was reasonable.. But since then Pizza has been developed and have become luxurious… The 1969 Piccadilly one was about the size of a saucer it was hard solid construction with a sprinkle of cheese and a black olive in the middle..it left me confused as to why they were popular in Italy…i would have preferred just a cheese on toast on that day…it was more of a cultural continental foray..i wouldnt describe it as delicious…no way..i dont think you could buy a Dona kebab in London in 1969..but egg and chips was easy to come by at the “golden egg” in Leicester Square
@@griswald7156 I thought as much. The frozen pizzas in the early 1970s were nothing to write home about. I shudder to think what an Italian would have thought of them. Thank you for your reply.
@@griswald7156 Pizza Express in 1975 in Wimbledon Villiage , it was wet. Only had one (maybe two, Pizza Express ones since just to try and see If I was wrong). Used to go when a student to an independent 9pm on Thursdays opposite Liverpool Street station, they were Italians and about 12 of us would go , sharing the slices around was much better. Best Pizza I had was in Morningside, Edinburgh in 1993
Hope you got out as quickly as possible after that. It was an incredibly sleazy and notorious place back then .
when England was England and not full of illegal immigrants.
Don't be ridiculous
Oh, bless you, you've been groomed. It's fascinating how the simple-minded can be controlled so easily.
yes i was groomed back in the 1950's when this country was not full of illegal immigrants and a better place to live. @@horsenuts1831
@@horsenuts1831So where’s all the ethnics in these films?
Get your facts right. Most immigrants are legal. Yes, i agree there are some illegal ones but to say england is 'full' of them is pretty stupid
I really liked the old neon signs at Piccadilly Circus, they had a warmth & character that cold soulless LED screens lack. You often see the neons as ‘scene setting’ shots in 1960’s TV shows like The Saint & Dial 999… also in feature films when a bright lights, big city type theme needs to be established.
Swings and roundabouts. The old neon lights may have been nicer, but back then the rest of Piccadilly was horrific. It was notorious for drugs and dirty old men picking up underage kids.
@@th8257…whereas these days it’s notorious for robbery, violent assault, sexual offences & anti-social behaviour. So no change there then!
Is that background noise really necessary?
Simply just turn the sound off !! 🙄
Too much noise to watch.
I don’t understand why my 2013 bmw r1200rt has a buttery smooth transmission. It feels smooth like a Honda transmission whereas my 1997 r850r has the classic clunky trans that feels un-natural when shifting. I can’t help wonder if I’m lucky or I’ll be replacing the trans soon.
Would have been better if it wasn't for the pretend camera noise ( which I turned off ) 60's music would be more appropriate.
But that is exactly the sound you would hear if you were watching a home movie. Really authentic.
Jackhammer
@@lauraarcher1730 Yes I accept what you say but still a bit irritating! Cheers.
1:52 That woman is gorgeous !
wasn't Swinging London in 1966 though?
Lovely footage takes me right back to being a kid in the sixties
That's pretty good quality for film that old.
Geoff great video, you are a warrior battling cancer. You rock! Bunkie
Bloody hippies! Where are the skinheads? 😉
Skinheads more 1980s.
@@marthasheilds2446 The original skinheads were from around 1968 to 1972. They evolved from working class mods.
If this was LA , Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention could do the voiceover from 'Plastic People' " I hear the sound of marching feet, down Sunset Boulevard to Crescent Heights and ... there at Pandora's Box .... we are confronted with a vast quantity of Plastic People " .... Substitute 'Pandora's Box' with the Statue of Eros and there's no a great difference 😄
Well the weather and the age of London compared to LA.
At 13:50, the dangers of bending over in a mini-skirt. Looks like the same woman at 11:32 to 11:37
Me too. London was a generous, relaxed, tolerant city. We really believed things would get better for everyone. Thank you.
What helped was that the post-WW2 economic boom was at its peak in the 1960s.
@@cliff-nb6bmand ridiculously expensive…
Stay strong Geoff. Best Wishes Tree..... Nottingham
Dr Burzynski discovered the cause of cancer 40 years ago, Peptide, amino acid deficiency
I have a very good feeling about you :) Strong in mind and body, god bless you sir !
Best of luck and please keep the diary updated! You look fit and healthy so I’m sure you will be fine and have many years of cycling to look forward to. I liked the clip of the wee cat at the end as well lol
What a wonderful attitude to have. I can see your broadcasting experience in your video. Felt like it was part of a news report. Keep cycling. Cancer can't stop you having fun while you can! I hope the surgery goes well!
Good luck to you sir, you certainly have the right mindset and thank you for sharing your experience it will certainly be beneficial to others. Hopefully you will be back cycling sooner rather than later.
A day at at a time, your in my thoughts. x
Wish we had an over 40s here. Interesting inspirational channel. I will subscribe
A victim of the General's vanity.
Thank you sir for your story and your service
I was 22 in 1969 living in London and having a fantastic life. Happy days.
I was 3 then and quite happy too.😀
@@gezbo66 I was 3 too (which I vaguely remember). The passage of time blows my mind sometimes!
I agree! I was 21, London was an exciting time. There was an air of expectancy, that anything could happen. I lived, and still do, in the 'burbs,' but every Saturday night we went 'up West.' The restaurants were fantastic, lots of bistros as I remember, with live music, and very small dance floors! If I wasn't with a boyfriend, then there were some great clubs/discos to dance the night away. So happy I was the age I was, in this era.
It's great being young isn't it
This is not the happy swinging London. These kids look like they're on heroin. More like early 70s?