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1991.
1994.
1995.
Bidlake
Glenn Longland
Championship,
Sean Yates














1992.
1993.
miles.
and he set a new RRA 50-mile record of 1:30:14.
broke the national 25-mile record,
since 1908.
tic competition,
Ron Kitching was a highly successful bike-dealer,
successful career of professional racing on the continent.
win again in 1991.
Graeme Obree.
Chris Boardman.
bike of his own unique design.
held the yellow jersey in the Tour de France this year,






helped to give him the BBAR title for this year,
Boardman for the World Pursuit Championship,
Record and win three Tour de France prologues.
Obree was a self-taught individual genius,
known as “Mr.Everything Cycling,”
and,
Glenn Longland broke a classic time-trial barrier which many had thought impossible,
Obree also broke the World Hour Record.
probably the most influential ever seen in British cycling,
the profile of bike-racing to a new level of public awareness.
ing the first man to top 300 miles for the 12-hour.This great ride
a award he would
becom-
the culmination of his long and
who used
Lotus bike.This was Britain’s first individual cycling gold medal
raising
Exactly contemporary with Boardman,
in domes-
His career was
Boardman won the Olympic Pursuit
becoming the second man ever inside 50 minutes,
set new time-trial records at 10 miles and 50
who rode a
title in Barcelona with a sensational ride on his revolutionary
Boardman would later break the World Hour
He defeated
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