Comments on: Classic Time Trial Photos

By: Parfitt-Edwards

Parfitt-Edwards — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:42:16 +0000

My husband took part in the QUAKER 1955 AMATEUR CIRCUIT OF BRITAIN but doesn’t have any photographs of the teams or himself during this tour. Does anyone out there have any please?

By: jonty pritchard

jonty pritchard — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:15:43 +0000

does anybody remember brian wylcher charlie mccoy and dave bonner from the 60s
they came from the southern clubs i think i just wondered if anybody hears about them
these days!!! they were up there with alfie on times from memory cya jonty

By: jonty pritchard

jonty pritchard — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:01:13 +0000

hi leslie i read your email re any info on alfie and just wondered
if you had had any luck contacting him i am also from that era
when we were time trial fanatics where are you in qld i am living on the gold
coast still riding my bike re jonty

By: jonty pritchard

jonty pritchard — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 10:36:19 +0000

gidday peter that ride you did from elthorne to southend takes me
back to when i was 16 years old I AM NOW 70 STILL RIDING CYCLING CHOSE ME !! on with the story i decided to ride to blackpool from manchester i had been riding club 25s and tens for about one and a half years just put gears on my bike i i had very little money and knew little or nothing about rehydrating and food intake anyway i made blackpool stayed a while then commenced the ride home got to within about ten miles of my home and collapsed onto the pavement i was desperate for water somebody gave me some which gave me the impetus to push on home when i arrived my mother said to me where have you been we have had the police out looking for you i said blackpool mam said BLACKPOOL ON YOUR BIKE !!! i had gotten the bug !! i stil dont know the distance but apparently it is now an annual ride for cancer and well patronised jonty gold coast australia

By: jonty pritchard

jonty pritchard — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 09:49:43 +0000

hi again ken,from memory i think that i posted a comment on your heart foundation reliability roller attempt last year WHEN ARE YOU MAKING THE ATTEMPT ?? will you be trying for the same distance in the same time that you did all those years ago ?? all i can say iz TAKE IT EASY and that is from someone who had a baad ( H A ) 12YEARS AGO i might give it a go myself but i will have to train even harder i think i would rather do the ride out on the road with other riders WHY ARE YOU DOING IT ON THE ROLLERS ?? so you come from the great tommy simpsons home town did you ever train with or ride with the great beryl burton ?!! becausei never rode any of the yorkshire tt courses not even any southern courses e g the great north road bath road E T C i never had the privilege of being caught by b b alf engers charlie mccoy dave bonner i rode most of my time trials in cheshire and on the east lancashire AS IT WAS KNOWN THEN !! courses . will talk again soon i have lots of stories from my club days with the abbotsford park road club our club house was the former reg harris stadium in the 50s i am also keeping in touch with len hall do you know len he lives near bath still riding at 76 !! i have just turned 70 are you enjoying the t d f c ya jonty

By: ken Downing

ken Downing — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:27:55 +0000

jonty Pritchard hi,left note for you. e-mail kendowning @btinternet.com.

By: ken Downing

ken Downing — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:49:25 +0000

Jonty I joined Askern C C (Doncaster) at the age of 12/13 that would be in 1958.

Lots of sunday runs for a year or two before I started time trialing,to begin we had to complete a reliability trial 130 miles in 8 hours. Just made it by 2/3 mins.

I`m 68 now and recovering from a heart attack,but fitter now than I was 25 years ago.
I found the first reliability trial certificate Jan of this year,it got me thinking could I do this again.

Yes,i think,planning to do it on rollers,for the British Heart Foudation. Everyone in my family and friends think I`m mad,they may be right,however, my training is going well.
I would welcome your e-mailed stories.
Ken.

By: jonty pritchard

jonty pritchard — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:35:56 +0000

send me your email ken we could exchange some great stories i started cycling and racing at age 14 1956 c ya jonty ( did we really know that was a magic time in our lives ??? )

By: ken Downing

ken Downing — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:39:46 +0000

Great photos,reminds me of the fun,friendship,the odd prize vouchers (sometimes enough value to buy a new tub) and the bad weather,ellimans athletic rub,oil of wintergreen and the PAIN,
happy days.Wish i could be there again sadly there is no return but dreams

Born again biker Ken

By: jonty pritchard

jonty pritchard — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:53:55 +0000

hi dan `just caught your blog 2 years later re holmes chapel ( NEVER TO LATE ) & i cast my mind back to the late 50s & early 60s when just down the road in macclesfield i rode the hilly macclesfield to leek 25 mile tt for about 8years i think it was in january robin murray apollo wheelers UP NORTH held the record can u tell me do they still hold the event ??? jonty australia c ya