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Left:
Right:
Hugh Porter
Roy Cromack
1972.
Bidlake
19-year-old time.
Eric Tremaine
1971.
1969.
1970.
1968.
record.
the race twice in succession,
record which still stands today.
trolled ride,
Les West.
distance barriers,
Roy Cromack
inally for his RRA London-Portsmouth record,
cesses at World Championship level,
winner was ever awarded the Bidlake.
being the only 24 he ever rode in his life.
victories over many years as an amateur and as a professional.
the four titles which he would win,
World Professional Pursuit title in Rome,
director of the World Championships in Leicester.
and Les West won in 1965 and 1967,
set a new 24-hour trike record of 457.89 miles,
time-trialling when he cracked the toughest of the long-
the 500-mile 24-hour ride.
Bill Bradley won
Hugh Porter continued the run of British suc-
Benny Foster was honoured as the organiser-
when he took the
It’s a strange fact that no Milk Race
the first of
brought the Bidlake back to
which was all the more remarkable for
reached 507 miles in a brilliantly planned and con-
an unequalled
He
It’s remarkable that Tremaine added just half a mile to Arnold’s figures,
Perhaps the committee felt that they had missed a trick here, for West was given the prize in 1971, nom-
to establish a
at last up-dating John Arnold’s
but perhaps in reality for his string of major road-race
but neither of them was chosen.
Left:
Right:
Hugh Porter
Roy Cromack
1972.
Bidlake
19-year-old time.
Eric Tremaine
1971.
1969.
1970.
1968.
record.
the race twice in succession,
record which still stands today.
trolled ride,
Les West.
distance barriers,
Roy Cromack
inally for his RRA London-Portsmouth record,
cesses at World Championship level,
winner was ever awarded the Bidlake.
being the only 24 he ever rode in his life.
victories over many years as an amateur and as a professional.
the four titles which he would win,
World Professional Pursuit title in Rome,
director of the World Championships in Leicester.
and Les West won in 1965 and 1967,
set a new 24-hour trike record of 457.89 miles,
time-trialling when he cracked the toughest of the long-
the 500-mile 24-hour ride.
Bill Bradley won
Hugh Porter continued the run of British suc-
Benny Foster was honoured as the organiser-
when he took the
It’s a strange fact that no Milk Race
the first of
brought the Bidlake back to
which was all the more remarkable for
reached 507 miles in a brilliantly planned and con-
an unequalled
He
It’s remarkable that Tremaine added just half a mile to Arnold’s figures,
Perhaps the committee felt that they had missed a trick here, for West was given the prize in 1971, nom-
to establish a
at last up-dating John Arnold’s
but perhaps in reality for his string of major road-race
but neither of them was chosen.
