And, of course, many pre-WWII Germans would argue that Hitler didn’t know about the bad things done by his Nazi party.

Thanks. It has many elements of the stuff I’ve previously written — and with which you’re (kindly) familiar — but also much new. Project is 1870s to 2020ish.

Bypass still has 1930s signage. The bypass linked Kenpas Highway and Fletchhampstead Highway. Always amazed this sign has been left in place.

The one-mile A46 Kenilworth Road cycle track — built in 1939 — hasn’t been resurfaced recently but I rode this morning on the Coventry bypass connector (a 7 mile cycle track) and new asphalt means it looks new even though built in 1940. www.britishcycletracks.com/cycle-track/...

Fruitful day in the National Cycle Archives at Warwick University. On a previous visit several years ago I suddenly realised this nearby cycle track and footway must have been 1930s in origin. Confirmed later: www.britishcycletracks.com/cycle-track/...

Ten to one the frame will be dismantled and the text chucked out. Then there will be replicas made to sell to MAGA idiots. Perhaps even some chocolate ones!

Not that I have seen.

It’s now an Ibis and I stay every time I hit the archives. (I’m a trustee of the charity behind the archives, the Cycling History Educational Trust.)

My favourite hotel in Coventry — it’s a former cycle factory, dating to 1890. I’m staying tonight before rifling through the National Cycle Archives tomorrow.

Think framebags and top tube bags were introduced recently by bikepacking luggage brands? Not so. Ad in CTC Gazette, May 1892:

Painful to see what was?

Didn’t know about that sign there but know about the org and its aristocratic backers. Incidentally, the criticism from CTC mag was written by editor Shipton, whose sharp words often cost CTC dear in libel settlements.

THEN AND NOW: Igtham, Kent, 1888 v today.