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Go Bag a Bickerton: Folding Bikes TV ad from 1983

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Uploaded by on Nov 28, 2008

This is the Bickerton TV advertisement from November 1983. It was put together for Bickerton Rowlinson Ltd by Sharps advertising, who subsequently became Dorland (part of Saatchi and Saatchi). This was a brave 1st for a small bike company. Amazingly Bickerton Bikes were able to afford to run this ad on Channel 4 in most UK regions, because the advert was acceptable when many others were not due to the Equity strike at the time. The name Bickerton is still synonymous with folding bikes, and it is amazing how many people still remember this advert 24 years on! For more info see www.bickertonbicycles.co.uk If anyone has a better quality recording please contact Mark Bickerton through the website.

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  • well, I remember being on an exhibition stand for 4 days, with it playing non-stop, so I can sympathise!

  • This is the Bickerton TV advertisement from November 1983. It was put together for Bickerton Rowlinson Ltd by Sharps advertising, who subsequently became Dorland (part of Saatchi and Saatchi). This was a brave 1st for a small bike company.

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  • This takes me to my happy place...This ad used to be shown on a Friday night when "The London Programme" was on(love the music from that as well)and "South Of Watford" and the whole weekend lay before me....

  • this is soo cool

  • This is what YouTube is all about. Finding mad old stuff from the corners of your ageing mind. Do I remember seeing this in the cinema?

  • Search for the Bickerton Portable bicycle facebook group

    For owners and fans of the Bickerton Portable bicycle

  • Another one here who's had the song in the back attic of my head for years (along with that godawful "Green's Cheesecake"!) Perhaps playing it again will exorcise the ghost! :D Thanks.

  • Haha great ad! Was this the birth of rap? Bickerton! Bickerton!

  • I rode one about three feet and decided that it was gash.

  • well i rode my bickerton 1000's( lterally ) of miles in the 80's,saving fortune on tube+bus fares.doddle to ride once you get used to it and a cinch to fold/unfold.don't listen to any cynics,they're great!

  • I remember this ad, man I'm getting old

  • Bickerton? Shiterton more like, what a massive load of unimaginable bollocks those bikes are!

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