Missing Legends.

[dellzeqq]

I raced against Colin Lewis - once

ah - the man who sold me my first posh bike frame!

Did he offer you a brandy?

 

[iggibizzle]

Wiggins and Boardman for thier hour records. Depends if tt's are your area of interest though.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Carlo Galetti: I suggest him not for his achievements (He won the 1910,11 and 12 Giros) but for having the best nickname in the history of sport: "il Scoiattolo dei Navigli" - “The squirrel of the canals”

 

[Smokin Joe]

Hubert Oppermann, a genuine legend (and Australian, too).

@TMN to me.

Ant Taylor, hard riding and controversial skinhead who won a few BBARs in the early seventies.

 

[Ian H]

Hubert Oppermann, a genuine legend (and Australian, too).

Oppy won Paris-Brest-Paris when it was still a race and was AUK's first patron. He would send regular letters to AUK's Arrivée magazine.

 

[mjr]

Tommy Godwin.

Both of them.

Kudos to whoever said Ned Overend. I'll also add John Tomac from the same era and raise the stakes further by suggesting Major Taylor.

Jack Lauterwasser if you're into time trials - but he deserves legendary status IMO partly because he was selected for the Amsterdam Olympics and rode there from London and partly because he was involved in the project to make folding bikes for parachutists, used at the ill-fated Operation Market Garden. Like Major Taylor, his name lives on as a handlebar shape which is now sold as a useful MTB-diameter drop-ish bar.

 

[Sharky]

@TMN to me.

Ant Taylor, hard riding and controversial skinhead who won a few BBARs in the early seventies.

I remember him. There seemed to be a spate of very short hair cuts about that time. Roy Cromack, Jon Burnham etc.
I would be in that group now (hair wise)

 

[dellzeqq]

Malcolm Elliott.

 

[matiz]

Phil Bayton aka (the Staffordshire engine) always on the attack,could mix it with the best .

 

[Sharky]

Bill Bradley & Graham Webb should not be forgotton

 

[subaqua]

wow. Alf Engers. I remember reading an article in the 1987 Ron Kitching "Everything Cycling" catalogue .
was a brilliant rider and the article was brilliant. Wish I had kept the catalogue now !

 

[Smokin Joe]

wow. Alf Engers. I remember reading an article in the 1987 Ron Kitching "Everything Cycling" catalogue .
was a brilliant rider and the article was brilliant. Wish I had kept the catalogue now !

A great short distance TT rival of Engers at one time Was Derick Cottington of the Charlotteville CC, although they rarely rode the same event. Cottingham maintained he never went out training - he didn't need to, his commute was 40 miles each way Monday to Friday.

 

[GilesM]

Phil Bayton aka (the Staffordshire engine) always on the attack,could mix it with the best .

Along with Ian Hallam in the KP Crisps / Saba team.

Mandy Jones has to get a mention, she won the women's world road title in Britain, long before lottery funding and Sky money came along.

And how about Jan Raas and Gerrie Knetemann

 

[Dogtrousers]

Have we had Marguerite Wilson?