kohl57
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- Washington, DC USA
I have published a new article in my blog Under the Drops:
Taking a Hand at... Racing & Records: Rudge Racing Cycles & Record Breakers 1936-1939
https://on-the-drops.blogspot.com/2018/ ... rudge.html
This aims to document the new range of quality lightweights designed (largely by Jack Lauterwasser) and built by Rudge-Whitworth just before the Second World War and the record breakers and professional racers-- Rene Menzies, Billie Dovey, Karel Kaers and Harry Hill-- who rode them to numerous records on road and tracking including the Year Records, Wembley Six-Day '39 etc. Truly a Golden Era for British Cycling and Cycle Sport and the last for Rudge as independent, they being acquired by Raleigh in 1943.
As usual, corrections, additions and suggestions welcomed.
Peter Kohler
Washington DC USA
Taking a Hand at... Racing & Records: Rudge Racing Cycles & Record Breakers 1936-1939
https://on-the-drops.blogspot.com/2018/ ... rudge.html
This aims to document the new range of quality lightweights designed (largely by Jack Lauterwasser) and built by Rudge-Whitworth just before the Second World War and the record breakers and professional racers-- Rene Menzies, Billie Dovey, Karel Kaers and Harry Hill-- who rode them to numerous records on road and tracking including the Year Records, Wembley Six-Day '39 etc. Truly a Golden Era for British Cycling and Cycle Sport and the last for Rudge as independent, they being acquired by Raleigh in 1943.
As usual, corrections, additions and suggestions welcomed.
Peter Kohler
Washington DC USA