Author Topic: Back in the day  (Read 1393 times)

Back in the day
« on: 04 October, 2012, 09:07:48 pm »
Severn Road Club 50 mile Time Trial 4/9/88

1st R Grigsby                       2.03.41 [etc]

1st tandem I Hennessey/J Trout      1.59.30
2nd Tandem I Boon/B Boon            2.06.20

rogerzilla

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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #1 on: 04 October, 2012, 09:18:15 pm »
I bet the second pair got a hard time, given that Boon was one of the biggest ITV programmes of the time.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: Back in the day
« Reply #2 on: 04 October, 2012, 09:25:11 pm »

rogerzilla

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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #3 on: 04 October, 2012, 09:28:16 pm »
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Rhys W

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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #4 on: 05 October, 2012, 12:37:58 pm »
Did you see this from George Berwick?

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I've got sore knees, a sore back and I'm fed up. Otherwise, I'm OK.

Full page reports of a time trial in Cycling Weekly? Those were the days.

Re: Back in the day
« Reply #5 on: 05 October, 2012, 01:24:03 pm »
Did you see this from George Berwick?

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I've got sore knees, a sore back and I'm fed up. Otherwise, I'm OK.

Full page reports of a time trial in Cycling Weekly? Those were the days.

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...below 400 miles for only the second time in 19 successive Mersey Roads and a total of 30 altogether.

Re: Back in the day
« Reply #6 on: 24 October, 2012, 02:37:26 pm »
Richard Grigsby, as an aside, is the guy behind Avon Valley Cyclery in Bath, and, I believe, the brains behind Cyclescheme.