ABSTRACT
The old grids were less gay and colourful, and they were heavier; but they were always sold ready for the road. Fortuitously on the first day of the London bus strike, the Triumph company launched at the Cafe Royal their latest bicycle, the Pink Witch, especially designed for that most influential section of the buying public, the teenage girl. In England, less aristocratic ladies had adopted bicycling not as a fashionable exercise but as a means of motivation or, in the case of young ladies, as a method of leaving the chaperons behind. Cycling clothes have indeed changed far more than cycles. The Mem Sahib had a string skirt-guard; and now the Pink Witch introduces a skirt-guard as a standard fitting again, but plastic. For this is essentially a feminine girl’s bicycle, and many of the bicycling outfits the models wore at this presentation had full dress-length skirts, sometimes worn over shorts to match.
