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Happy Steve on Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregmelia/9408539089/sizes/z/)
Steve shows his appreciation of the Great British weather.
This is at Pocklington on the return leg of the 2013 LEL. This is the only photo I can find HK, so ignore the fb message I just sent you.
Wonderful expression on MT in the background ;D
Steve in the 7 1/2 ton lorry at Oxenwood near Marlborough during a 400k, Chris Avery, Stewie Lee and (wearing the Auk cap) Andy Uttley. Pic: Dave Hudson
I think Chris had serious health issues but do not know the outcome.
Steve at Wisborough Green with Paul Whitehead and Alan (Pedals) Pedliham
I seem to remember some photos taken of successful Crackpot riders. Ah yes http://www.wessexsr.talktalk.net/1998%20Finishers.pdf (http://www.wessexsr.talktalk.net/1998%20Finishers.pdf) Reads like a Who's Who of audax.
I believe TG road this on fixed 8)
I seem to remember some photos taken of successful Crackpot riders. Ah yes http://www.wessexsr.talktalk.net/1998%20Finishers.pdf (http://www.wessexsr.talktalk.net/1998%20Finishers.pdf) Reads like a Who's Who of audax.
I believe TG road this on fixed 8)
He did.
It was a knee-popping experience for me, even with gears.
Chris Avery got cancer and survived. That wasn't long after he was hit by a car on a 300, which made a mess of his knee. He now rides a motorbike with PB Bear.
I think I am correct in suggesting that a certain well-respected long-standing organiser living on the south coast is pleased to see the comments above, prompted by his pictures. Y'see, audax is about the rides coming up but also about the rides we've done. There's a lot of history in this. We stand on the shoulders of giants.
I can still remember the 7.5t truck Els Supremo feed stop on his 400. IIRC it was 1997........I have also had El Supremo feeds I could still remember years later.........
I can still remember the 7.5t truck Els Supremo feed stop on his 400. IIRC it was 1997........I have also had El Supremo feeds I could still remember years later.........
I think I am correct in suggesting that a certain well-respected long-standing organiser living on the south coast is pleased to see the comments above, prompted by his pictures. Y'see, audax is about the rides coming up but also about the rides we've done. There's a lot of history in this. We stand on the shoulders of giants.
I can still remember the 7.5t truck Els Supremo feed stop on his 400. IIRC it was 1997 and the first edition of El Supremo's 400 that went through Great Bedwyn, which became a very popular road on a number of Audax events from that area.
Chris Avery got cancer and survived. That wasn't long after he was hit by a car on a 300, which made a mess of his knee. He now rides a motorbike with PB Bear.
Chris is still riding his motorbike. I've just had a Christmas card from him with a picture of him bungee jumping and another one with his motorbike 150m from the most southerly point of South Africa.
Alan Pedals got married and has a young son, but doesn't do much riding nowadays. He's still a postie in Croydon.
I rode all 3 Crackpots on fixed.
Alan "Pedals" Pedliham rode the last 2 on fixed as well as the first one on gears.
Rob Gray rode the last Crackpot on fixed, so that's 3 of us who have finished Crackpot on fixed.
Anne Learmonth is the only lady to have finished Crackpot.
I also rode the Crackpot route (except for where my GPS went tits up near the end and I loosely followed the route) on fixed just within the time limit in 2012, starting in heavy rain. I did that on fixed too and walked up a lot more hills than I did on the events. The difference was that I used to "train" for Crackpot but this time Crackpot was training for the 24 hour time trial.
The cafe in Cirencester was called Greasy Joe's.
The cafe in Cirencester was called Greasy Joe's.
Sadly no longer a 24 hour cafe :(
bet there are not many of you still alive when Ray (the boot) Booty beat the 4 hours for a HUNDRED miles.
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Steve in the 7 1/2 ton lorry at Oxenwood near Marlborough during a 400k, Chris Avery, Stewie Lee and (wearing the Auk cap) Andy Uttley. Pic: Dave Hudson
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Steve at Wisborough Green with Paul Whitehead and Alan (Pedals) Pedliham
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Steve tucking in at the Southern Reunion at Wantage YHA with Paul Whitehead (yes, all the spuds were eaten.) Pic: Dave Hudson
these pix are "public" on my Flickr site
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29651652@N06/
and can (somehow, not sure how) be downloaded by HK should she choose so to do.
best regards and best wishes to Steve.
Steve on Mad Jacks John Seviour Memorial; not content with riding down from MK to the Hailsham start and then camping somewhere very off the beaten track he dragged his bike laden with camping gear round a Super Grimpeur :thumbsup:
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[Picture: Tim Wainwright]
Just for the record, that's my 3 piece suite that El was taking to the tipNo expense spared on an El Supremo event eh? Perhaps he still keeps it in his garage in case he ever needs it on an event. With the oven and 45 camping chairs. And a gazebo. And those exArmy hot water containers. And the tables. And the three chest freezers full of food.
I got a return train ticket. Hotel prices were too much so I bought my tent and pitched it in a park somewhere.
Just for the record, that's my 3 piece suite that El was taking to the tipNo expense spared on an El Supremo event eh? Perhaps he still keeps it in his garage in case he ever needs it on an event. With the oven and 45 camping chairs. And a gazebo. And those exArmy hot water containers. And the tables. And the three chest freezers full of food.
Maybe we could get Teethgrinder to ride through Shoreham to hoover up all that food.....
I got a return train ticket. Hotel prices were too much so I bought my tent and pitched it in a park somewhere.
Sir TG master of the road,
Please read this old link from you ;)
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=42770.50
I got a return train ticket. Hotel prices were too much so I bought my tent and pitched it in a park somewhere.
Sir TG master of the road,
Please read this old link from you ;)
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=42770.50
So I did ride home after all.
Fancy that...
OT cos no Steve, but Chris Avery and a very young Postie here (https://flic.kr/p/7jKDSy). Also Mark Waters, Bernard and Ann Dawes, and the late Phil Hampton.