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David Martin

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Hard as..
« on: 31 August, 2014, 09:54:18 pm »
One of our local riders - crashed at Scarborough. Gets up to finish. In the ambulance says to his dad "You drove me 5 hours to get here. No way I wasn't going to finish"

Really nice lad - pitches in with the big boys on our winter velodrome chain gangs and is a currnet Scottish (maybe british) record holder at 500m.

Scarborough Youth Circuits 31 August 2014 by britishcycling.org.uk photos, on Flickr
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Re: Hard as..
« Reply #1 on: 31 August, 2014, 10:22:27 pm »
Didn't see any Scarborough Paragon jerseys in that race (unless they've changed from when I was a member [size=78%](1997-2000).[/size]

Karla

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Re: Hard as..
« Reply #2 on: 31 August, 2014, 11:24:10 pm »
Given that it was a five hour drive for him and his dad to get to Scab, and given that he's one of DM's locals, I doubt that he rides for the Paragon!

Looking at the results, I also note that one of our riders apparently rides for Clinton CC :(

Re: Hard as..
« Reply #3 on: 01 September, 2014, 08:22:41 am »
Those Dundonians eh? Hard as nails, or just daft ? ;D

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eck

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Re: Hard as..
« Reply #4 on: 01 September, 2014, 08:57:35 am »
Given that it was a five hour drive for him and his dad to get to Scab, and given that he's one of DM's locals, I doubt that he rides for the Paragon!

His jersey is from this club:
http://www.discoveryjcc.co.uk/DJCC/Home.html
Tough wee buggers, the lot of them.
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Re: Hard as..
« Reply #5 on: 01 September, 2014, 07:30:04 pm »
Brilliant. I doubt he'll get a more impressive photo taken in his lifetime  ;D

(Glad he's ok. Faces bleed a lot, don't they? )
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