Bicycle made for Three

in message <[email hidden]>, David E.

Belcher (') said:

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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They used to use triplets for pacing in races sometimes.

They certainly did, in the days before Derny pacing took off; tracks
had teams of pacers on triplets (and even quads sometimes), which were
considered worthy of publicity in their own right - at one time Dunlop
Tyres provided comprehensive sponsorship to such teams.

What is the etymology of 'derny' does anyone know?

(And no, I don't suppose that is a FAQ!)

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Just zis Guy said:

Keith Willoughby said:

Trandem. Unless you're trying to imply that the Goodies
weren't infallible, you cur.

<obligatory_plug> And isn't it about time the BBC repeated The
Goodies? </obligatory_plug>

Guy

We got the DVD. I found them not as funny as I remembered.
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the.Mark said:

Quoted message said:

<obligatory_plug> And isn't it about time the BBC repeated The
Goodies? </obligatory_plug>

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We got the DVD. I found them not as funny as I remembered.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be...

Guy
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Robin Long ([email hidden]) wrote:
: It was a Trandem as made popular by the goodies in the 70's.

There's a book by Rory Spowers called Three Men On A Bike. Amazon says;

"In 1989, prompted by a cocktail of cheap red wine and headstrong naivety,
Rory Spowers and three friends set off on one of the most bizarre bicycle
rides of the century. One year and two 278 punctures later, they had
traversed the length of Africa on the Goodies's 1930s tandem and a
mountain bike, retaining their sanity (barely), but minus one testicle and
their preconceptions. Experiences ranged from starring as extras in a
Clint Eastwood movie, being attacked by machete-wielding men and poisonous
snakes, surviving regular bouts of malaria and travelling through some of
the most beautiful lands in the world."

Blair.

B.G. Finlay IT Services said:

[...] minus one testicle [...]

So they did something only /half/ as bad as a SMIDSY?

Guy
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Guy plugged:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

<obligatory_plug> And isn't it about time the BBC repeated The
Goodies? </obligatory_plug>

and the.Mark replied:

Quoted message said:

We got the DVD. I found them not as funny as I remembered.

We got the DVD and found them even funnier than we remembered :-P

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