Can't let today slip bye, without a mention of my Dad (Vic Ward), who would have been 100 today, but sadly left us in 1993. A cyclist to the end.
Some of his earlier days -
All before WW2
In racing strip of the time:-
This was his pre war PB. An extract taken from Cycling I suspect.
This was a time when beating the "hour" for 25 miles was just a dream for most riders. How times have moved on!
A couple of names to point out
- E.Soens, the Liverpudlian frame builder and coach
- A Barker - key member of the Warrington RC and whose daughter has been a member on cycle chat
I remember my Dad talking about these times and how strange it was at the outset of the war. Shortly after this race, he was called up by the RAF and spent 4 years in India. In some ways something like the experience we are all going through now with the uncertainty of the coronus virus.
After the war, he resumed cycling and raced again until 1954, bettering his PB with a "5", but was always a cyclist, commuting to work by bike and riding with some of the Old Timers around Dartford.
Some of his earlier days -
All before WW2
In racing strip of the time:-
This was his pre war PB. An extract taken from Cycling I suspect.
This was a time when beating the "hour" for 25 miles was just a dream for most riders. How times have moved on!
A couple of names to point out
- E.Soens, the Liverpudlian frame builder and coach
- A Barker - key member of the Warrington RC and whose daughter has been a member on cycle chat
I remember my Dad talking about these times and how strange it was at the outset of the war. Shortly after this race, he was called up by the RAF and spent 4 years in India. In some ways something like the experience we are all going through now with the uncertainty of the coronus virus.
After the war, he resumed cycling and raced again until 1954, bettering his PB with a "5", but was always a cyclist, commuting to work by bike and riding with some of the Old Timers around Dartford.
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