Ever heard of Beryl Burton?

[Blue]

Just checked the CTT site. B Burton still holds the 12hr record and dominates the top 15 placings in all distances. The modern females aren't worthy of kissing her @rse!!

 

[Tim Hall]

The lovely Maxine Peake is doing a drama about her I think.

According to t'interwebs, it's an adaptation of her radio play "Beryl:A Love Story on Two Wheels", which is the one mentioned up there ^. I like Maxine Peake's work.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

According to t'interwebs, it's an adaptation of her radio play "Beryl:A Love Story on Two Wheels", which is the one mentioned up there ^. I like Maxine Peake's work.

Big interview about it in The Telegraph yesterday, not that I read it...

 

[ayceejay]

I don't see any need to diss today's riders while praising Beryl Burton, they are doing a fine job trying to raise the profile of the women's sport against some pretty prejudicial odds and winning some races too.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Just checked the CTT site. B Burton still holds the 12hr record and dominates the top 15 placings in all distances. The modern females aren't worthy of kissing her @rse!!

The top level modern females don't ride time trials, they ride track and road races. Burton's twelve hour performance was a very worthy ride, but remember the men she was competing against were not top level amateurs and a fair percentage were vets. Time trialling had long been usurped as the discipline of choice for the aspiring riders, they were concentrating on the road and very rarely if ever bothered riding against the watch. Look back through the time trial records and you won't find names like Pete Matthews, Doug Daily or Dave Rollinson anywhere on the lists.

 

[biggs682]

well spoke about in my parents household and deserves to be as well

 

[craigwend]

Billie Flemming.

I thought you quoting an obscure Gaelic insult

 

[alicat]

Yes. A fine Leeds girl who credits her successes to 'training, strength of mind and solid Yorkshire grub'. She deserves to be better known.

The top level modern females don't ride time trials, they ride track and road races. Burton's twelve hour performance was a very worthy ride, but remember the men she was competing against were not top level amateurs and a fair percentage were vets. Time trialling had long been usurped as the discipline of choice for the aspiring riders, they were concentrating on the road and very rarely if ever bothered riding against the watch. Look back through the time trial records and you won't find names like Pete Matthews, Doug Daily or Dave Rollinson anywhere on the lists.

Don't forget she held down a full time physical job. How many of today's riders do that?

 

[Archie_tect]

Beryl Burton used to climb the hill in my village regularly- we were used to seeing her flying about so often I thought she lived there but none of the information given about her ever mentions it, so it may have just been a rumour started by my grandad!

 

[ianrauk]

Yes.. I have heard of Beryl Burton.

 

[Kins]

Better article. Sounds like a very determined woman.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/beryl-burton-british-legend-62824

 

[guitarpete247]

She was the celeb who opened the youth club my dad used to work at (when Doncaster had youth clubs). Dad got her autograph and I have it somewhere at his house.

 

[Ganymede]

Just FYI - Maxine Peake did the radio play, which was so successful that it's now become a stage play. Love Maxine Peake. And Beryl's obviously a goddess!

 

[tribanjules]

Nice mural of her in Morley, where my parents live. Amazing record holder

 

[400bhp]

The top level modern females don't ride time trialsts.[/QUOTE
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not sure what makes you think that? A job lot of them turned up at a local tt @Hacienda71 rode a few weeks back. I think they do it often.