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ride,
died.
sport.
Bidlake
delayed shock,
over the sport.
Officially,


his family had originated.
opposition from the clubs,
THE BIDLAKE TRUST



Council would emerge in 1937-38.
Nothing of the kind ever happened,
Council was at first an advisory body,


In the cycling world,
and he was able to make his way home on foot.
ities and to move away from London to Devon,
But Bidlake himself never lived to see that event.
For reasons which are not easy to explain,
elder statesman of the sport.At the time of his death,
when he was struck down by a car on Barnet Hill.



recommendations on matters connected with time-keeping,
and he sank into delirium and semi-consciousness.
not truly a governing body,
It was a tragic end for a man who had done so much for cycling,



racing dress,
who resented this attempt by a group of senior figures to,
the shock of his death was enormous,





to the tiny village of Bidlake near Okehampton,
as they saw it,
Finally just over two weeks later,
take
the motivation behind the Council was to keep time-trialling a hidden and disciplined
he was preparing to retire from most of his activ-
His injuries did not at first appear very serious,
In August 1933 he was returning home from a Sunday
and a scheme was
courses and so on.
where
the police might at any moment take it into their heads to start interfering once again with their races,
But later he seems to have suffered from some form of
he
but it seems that this was a real concern throughout the inter-war
the time-trialling fraternity was always nervous that
and who had become the great
years.The Road Racing Council was to become the embryo body out of which the Road Time Trials
or even that the government might pass new traffic laws banning bike-racing on the road altogether.
but it did not fail to arouse some
The
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