swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Me neither. Shocking really, when you read of...
"...a play premiering in Leeds as part of the Yorkshire festival later this month, timed to coincide with the Tour's visit, celebrates the greatest British female cyclist of all time. Not Victoria Pendleton or Laura Trott. But Beryl Burton of Morley, who for two glorious years in the 1960s held the men's world 12-hour time trial record.
In 1967 she pedalled 277.25 miles in 12 hours, famously overtaking Mike McNamara, her male rival, and giving him a liquorice allsort as she passed. It wasn't until 1969 that a man went faster. No woman has ever bettered her time."
For the full story: http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jun/13/tour-de-france-beryl-burton
Love that liquorice allsort!
"...a play premiering in Leeds as part of the Yorkshire festival later this month, timed to coincide with the Tour's visit, celebrates the greatest British female cyclist of all time. Not Victoria Pendleton or Laura Trott. But Beryl Burton of Morley, who for two glorious years in the 1960s held the men's world 12-hour time trial record.
In 1967 she pedalled 277.25 miles in 12 hours, famously overtaking Mike McNamara, her male rival, and giving him a liquorice allsort as she passed. It wasn't until 1969 that a man went faster. No woman has ever bettered her time."
For the full story: http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jun/13/tour-de-france-beryl-burton
Love that liquorice allsort!