Perhaps, but that wasn't what was being referred to at the time. It was about roads in Hull. As often happens on threads like these, the goal posts go wandering around on some of the most ridiculous bits of irrelevance.
They were indeed. Especially with the no wet grip Japanese motorcycle tyres of the 60's/70's. Almost as bad on a push bike and you had the added complication of the railway tracks let into the road. Crossing those at anything much less than a right angle often resulted in a close look at how the tar and sand had rubbed of the wooden blocks. We may have contributed to our own downfall though as during particularity hot weather we used to go and pick of the tar to make cricket balls. Nearest thing to corkies we had.
Hull Daily Mail East Riding of Yorkshire, England 16 Apr 1921 THEFT OF WOOD SETTS THEFT OF WOOD SETTS. HULL WOMAN BOUND OVER. A case of the theft of wood setts from Charlotte-street, where work the tramway track is progress, was heard the Hull City Police Court to-day, before Mr John Porter (chairman), Mr E. Robson and Mr E. C. Lambert
Hull was a mish mash of everything fuelled by close links to Europe and war damage. Our house has a tumbled gable end- which is traditionally Dutch (not DMD). Obviously influenced by an influx of Dutch builders 100 or so years ago. There's a few of the older houses in South Cave with these style gables, not a building style typical to the UK.
Funny you mention Trams. I dated a girl from Sheffield for a few years, at the time they were building the new tram system. A few of her friends were nurses and the reported number of fractures and bike injuries from cyclists hitting tram tracks soared. Collar bones, arms and wrists!
You must mean the early Yokohama's? I only ever had one set, they came with my Yamaha YR5, they were lethal things - I changed to Avon after a high speed wobble brought me off on Hessle High Road.
My grandad used to tell me stories of WW2. He used to cycle to work at Brigham n Gowan down Hedon rd.He said he had to zig zag around the parts of the road that where on fire. Sone of the stories from him and my gran where gripping when i was young
Yes but early Bridgestones were as bad. It was common for those who could afford it to have them removed and changed prior to picking up a new bike as they were so bad. Yet here we are with Bridgestone now the worlds biggest producer (after LEGO apparently) and used on performance and racing cars and bikes. Dunlop TT100's were the way to go. I see they are still made in Japan, ironically, and elsewhere.
They used to be made in Grimsby. The name is now used by all sorts of manufacturers for their own products. Dunlop tires now being made by Good Year.
Not sure what you mean but yes sort of I suppose so. In a similar way that Land Rover is the same company as Tata Motors.
Dunlop's owned by Sports Direct, one of the many heritage brands that got into financial bother and now just make cheap ****e for discount sport stores.
