Les has written some excellent words in the Derby Cycling Group Newsletter.
In it he states a cyclist was charged a 5 shillings fine in 1842 for knocking down a young girl. In 1842 a mans wage was between nine and twelve shillings a week, so this is about equivalent to £300 in today’s money. Or a months Community Service!
I wonder how much a bike would have cost then?
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Can't recall the price of a bike in those days, but my Dad was once fined ten shillings,(a tidy sum then) and got his name in the Derby Evening Telegraph, for riding his bike without a rear light.
The policeman, also on a bike, chased him from The Cavendish to the top of Dairyhouse Road, and this was in the early hours of the morning!
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