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General Category => Freewheeling => Racing => Topic started by: 24hourmaths on 10 July, 2020, 07:32:32 pm

Title: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: 24hourmaths on 10 July, 2020, 07:32:32 pm

Hello all,

Happy lockdown to everybody, I hope that this message finds you well,

As part of a celebration of the rich history of the Road Records Association, which is now over 130 years old, I have embarked upon a project to interview a number of past record holders. This is just part of the RRA "Project Red Caps" where we are presenting retrospective scarlet red record caps to record breakers from the last 64(!) years. My aim is to talk to them about their record breaking exploits, their motivations and their background. Most of all I am interested in listening to them describing their record breaking rides from their own point of view.

I have listed the links below to the first three interviewees - all three are outstanding, inspiring cyclists.

1) RRA in conversation with Eileen Sheridan

https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with

2) RRA in conversation with Pauline Wallis (Strong)

https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with-pauline-wallis-strong

3) RRA in conversation with Gethin Butler

https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with-gethin-butler

I hope that you enjoy listening to these conversations and I will try and remember to post any further discussions on this thread. Any feedback, or tips, very welcome  :)

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: Feanor on 10 July, 2020, 08:01:06 pm

Thanks for posting that.

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: DrMekon on 13 July, 2020, 03:32:48 pm

Thank you for this.

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: 24hourmaths on 13 July, 2020, 05:19:30 pm

4) RRA in conversation with Dick Poole

https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with-dick-poole

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: cygnet on 14 July, 2020, 10:01:14 pm

Super, Mike
I've passed these links to others and had very complimentary responses.

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: 24hourmaths on 14 July, 2020, 11:51:32 pm

5) RRA in conversation with Andy Wilkinson

https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with-andy-wilkinson

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: basset on 17 July, 2020, 07:54:26 am

Thanks for posting really enjoyed them

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: 24hourmaths on 28 July, 2020, 09:32:24 am

6) RRA in conversation with Lynne Biddulph (Taylor) and Andy Wilkinson

https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with-lynne-biddulph-taylor-and-andy-wilkinson

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: 24hourmaths on 28 July, 2020, 09:33:58 am

Thank you for the kind comments, btw - I really appreciate it. It has been a privilege to listen to these people talk freely about their rides. Hopefully, I have a fair few other interesting interviewees lined up for the coming weeks  :)

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 28 July, 2020, 09:41:29 am

I have enjoyed the interviews so far, keep it up!

I just need to work out how to download Soundcloud to my iPhone for offline listening. Search result suggestions don't seem to match the options I am presented with.

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: 24hourmaths on 28 July, 2020, 11:16:56 am

7) RRA in conversation with Adam Wild

https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with-adam-wild

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: 24hourmaths on 29 July, 2020, 10:55:44 pm

8) RRA in conversation with Mick Coupe

https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with-mick-coupe

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: rob on 29 July, 2020, 11:05:33 pm

These are brilliant, Mike.  Thanks for putting so much time and effort into the RRA.

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: 24hourmaths on 03 August, 2020, 10:40:32 pm

9) RRA in conversation with Douglas Hart

https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with-douglas-hart

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: 24hourmaths on 06 January, 2021, 10:51:41 pm

A couple more that may appear to fans of time-trialling in the 1970s and 1980s:

RRA in conversation with Derek Cottington

https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with-derek-cottington

RRA in conversation with Eric Tremaine

https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with-eric-tremaine

I hope you enjoy  :)

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: 24hourmaths on 15 February, 2021, 01:43:25 pm

Chatting with Lynne Biddulph (Taylor)

https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with-lynne

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: 24hourmaths on 17 February, 2021, 01:49:57 pm

Continuing my productive half term, I sat down this morning and had a chat with Charlie Mitchell and Dominic Irvine who broke the Men's tandem End to End record in 2015

RRA in conversation with Dominic Irvine and Charlie Mitchell (https://soundcloud.com/user-971271891-227782844/rra-in-conversation-with-dominic-irvine-and-charlie-mitchell)

Title: Re: RRA: Interviews with record holders
Post by: LittleWheelsandBig on 06 January, 2024, 10:24:08 pm

Many of these links unfortunately seem to have died.