Figure 1.--English Scouts in this photograph are off on a biking expeditiin. Thwy still war the lemon-squeezer hat. We are not sure how to date this sbapshot, but would guess in the late-1940s after World War II. .

Biking was another Scout activity in England. We do not think it was one of the more common activities, in part because of the limited phothraophic record. There is a huge number of Scouting images, in part because around the turn of the 20th century, camerals were developed that made family sanapshot not only possible, but easy. Thus just before Baden Powell started up nScouting, cameras were widely available. Even so, we have found only a few Scout biking images, but not very many. Some seem related to World war I and II whenScouts may have carried messages. Now before World War II, English roads were relatively safe because there were so few cars. After the War, especuallky by the 1950s we begin to see far more cars in Britain, creating safety issues. Also biking meant a lot of time in the road getting places. And many Scouts preferred getting on with camping activities in camps than a lot of time on the road. Perhps our British readers will know more about this. Scouting was a middle-class activity and many Scouts did have bikes. We see cigarette cards with Scout bikers, pften illustrating safety protocols. Here the Hitler Youth weee somewaht different. The Hitler Youth were a mass movement. Many nboys did not have bikes. They were more widely used for adult worker transit in Germany where car ownership was even less prevalent in Britain. BUt the HJ provided bikes on a temporary basis for unit excursions. One HJ unuit raised eyebrows in Britain when they tourned Briutain just before World War II (1937). Many had cameras and the newspapers invented the term 'spyclists'.