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Ed Ward
Nov 28, 2018

More from 1968

in General Chat

From L to R me, Tony Jarrow, Dave Minion and Dave Riddell at the first Club 25


Bob Bright (now still in Australia I believe) finishing the 25 1:13:23 and on joint scratch handicap. It was a very hard day!


Note the difference in clothing and bikes - and not a helmet in sight (we didn't have them then).

My current winter bike weighs less than my racing bike then.


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TrevA
Nov 28, 2018

Also note the complete absence of cars in any of these photos. Sunday’s were very quiet in the days before Sunday shopping.

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p.hollands456
Nov 29, 2018

and we used to start earlier in the morning by Bob's shadow the sun was still low in the sky.

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Ed Ward
Nov 29, 2018

Generally we did start earlier, but this was 17 March so the sun would have been low. From memory I thinks it was probably a 9.00 a.m. start.


Certainly cars were fewer - imagine finishing an event on the A612 near the Stoke Lane junction and doing U-turns at on the A6097 and at Thurgarton!

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p.hollands456
Nov 29, 2018

You are quite right the sun at that time of year would still be quite low but nevertheless when I rode T Ts with the Redhill CC IN THE SUMMER I we did in some cases start at 6am(mostly 7am) I sometimes got back home before the rest of the kids in the street were out and about.

Look at Bobs bike what a picture not only were they works of art they were individual and special to you.i was only thinking about this as I marshalled the club open 10 probably 80% of the bikes looked the same.Thanks for the memory Ed.-------wing nut


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Ed Ward
Nov 29, 2018

Certainly we had early starts in the summer especially for Club 50s. This meant we could get a club ride in afterwards.


Looking in the background (a bit blurred) I think the rider on the left was Paul Gutteridge in the white with blue and yellow bands. This was the jersey of Trent Valley RC a racing offshoot of the CTC. It folded in 1965 and Paul, Pat Gutteridge and I moved to Sherwood along with my brother Rob and Roger Codling.

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TrevA
Nov 30, 2018  ·  Edited: Nov 30, 2018

I was reading through an old diary the other day. It was quite usual to do the time trial and then go on a club run afterwards. Not unusual to end up with a 100 mile day. 50's started at Whatton, so you'd ride out for a warm up too. Or the original 50 course that had dead turns in Newark, at Mabel Grove in West Bridgford and the Bowls Club on Manor Road.

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Ed Ward
Nov 30, 2018

Quite so, but Bowls Club was on Conway Road. Just picked up an old diary for 1981 - Club 50 Champs on 23/8/81 7.30 a.m., start. Dave Smith won in 2:12, I was 2nd 2:14. After tea at Little Chef, East Bridgford (gone now), then Melton Mowbray (lunch) then Tilton on the Hill, Scraptoft, Thrussington, Broughton Lodge. 132 miles in total.