I still have my programmes from these Kellogg's Tours of Britain. My partner and I would sneak out of work and drive to wherever was the nearest place that the race passed. In one edition I remember Jimmy Saville sitting in one of the publicity vehicles that preceded the race. Oh, how times have changed
The one race all year that Fagor had Roche on form and the 'dream team' all together and firing. A shame it all fell apart, effectively shortly after when Millar, Yates, Elliot et al. all left, they'd had a pretty stellar year in Roche's absence.
poor ol malcolm elliot trying to string a few words of complaint together ?? when the entire field was on a dubious performance enhanced dietary regime kettle calling the (pocket rocket) pan "black" was so amusing ..bike racing will always be corrupt !
There is something to be said of people who build lots and lots of wheels. My local was owned by a guy who was malcolm's mechanic. I bought a of wheels from him. Your standard 32 hole Mavic Open CD with Ultegra hubs. Your standard training wheels. But my lord did they stay true. I put them on my 700c training/shopping bike. On the back i slapped on a Tubus rack that attached via brake boss at the top and through the QR at the bottom. So held in place by the force applied when closing the QR. So essentially a road bike with a rack. I ended up putting nearly 45 lbs of gear on it and rode accross europe starting from devon. When i got back home the thing was still true. Sadly due to health reasons he had to give up the shop.
I still have my programmes from these Kellogg's Tours of Britain. My partner and I would sneak out of work and drive to wherever was the nearest place that the race passed. In one edition I remember Jimmy Saville sitting in one of the publicity vehicles that preceded the race. Oh, how times have changed
I remember going to the final stage, seeing Stephen Roche in his rainbow jersey and talking to Joey McLaughlin afterwards 😊
The one race all year that Fagor had Roche on form and the 'dream team' all together and firing. A shame it all fell apart, effectively shortly after when Millar, Yates, Elliot et al. all left, they'd had a pretty stellar year in Roche's absence.
poor ol malcolm elliot trying to string a few words
of complaint together ?? when the entire field was
on a dubious performance enhanced dietary regime
kettle calling the (pocket rocket) pan "black" was so
amusing ..bike racing will always be corrupt !
There is something to be said of people who build lots and lots of wheels. My local was owned by a guy who was malcolm's mechanic.
I bought a of wheels from him. Your standard 32 hole Mavic Open CD with Ultegra hubs. Your standard training wheels. But my lord did they stay true.
I put them on my 700c training/shopping bike. On the back i slapped on a Tubus rack that attached via brake boss at the top and through the QR at the bottom. So held in place by the force applied when closing the QR. So essentially a road bike with a rack.
I ended up putting nearly 45 lbs of gear on it and rode accross europe starting from devon. When i got back home the thing was still true.
Sadly due to health reasons he had to give up the shop.
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