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1957.
1958.
1959.
1960.
today,
relaxed,
3:28:40,
for the 1000,
for his work.
Reginald C.
Beryl Burton
except for John Arnold.
the climax of a great career.
End-to-End solo trike record.
figure in British time-trialling,
women’s World Championships.
Crimes continued as a solo rider,
this ride on an 84-inch fixed wheel.

but for many years invincible,
this time using a three-speed.
repeated her success in home competition;

Safe Cycling Scheme for training child cyclists.
a giant of the sport.
Modest,

But Arnold was forced out of the sport
but in the following year he took that record too,
Albert Crimes was the greatest trike-man in Britain –
and in this year he set a new
He had not scheduled to go on
A few weeks later he set
Shaw was the founder of the National
humorous,
In the 1950s
Booty was a unique
what seemed an incredible straight-out RRA 100 record of
and Shaw’s scheme helped to raise awareness of their safety.
through injury soon after he and Crimes had set their leg-
endary End-to-End record together on the tandem trike.
Beryl Burton’s unique ability took her to even greater heights,
Shaw was also a journalist and writer of general books on cyling.
had already arrived as a multiple national champion in 1958,

giving her a double victory in
The Unfinished Story
He had already been given the MBE
but she went much further in taking the pursuit title in the
children in their thousands used bicycles on the public roads in a way that they no longer seem to do
and in 1959 she
Booty en route to his straight-out 100 record.
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