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friends.
with some
Reg Harris
1947.
1945.
1946.
Bidlake
When
more celebrated,
through two generations.
an active cyclist himself,
There was no award.
Albert Derbyshire.
scenes like those which he drew.
1947.
1944,
have a British world champion at last,
Derbyshire
following injuries in a car crash just before the Games.
except in his younger days,
speed on the roads of Britain was likely to hear calls of,
the first since 1922.
records in the 50 and the 100.
Patterson himself was a strange,
and was only twenty years old,
was seen as a near-certainty for an Olympic gold in London in 1948,
Reg Harris won the World Amateur Sprint title in Paris,
have been given the Bidlake in 1945,
three national championships and the BBAR,
petition had been founded in 1930,
and a household name in this country.Throughout the 1950s,
reclusive man,
was honoured by the Bidlake committee.
“Who do you think you are,
but he was not.
1946 Derbyshire’s superiority in time-trialling was complete:
Reg Harris?”
Since he was the first Scotsman (and still the only one) ever to win it,
he won
but finished with the silver medal,
It took a long time for a BAR champion to be given the Bidlake.The com-
He would take the BBAR title again in
Derbyshire had
who was certainly not
and broke competition
this young coal-miner might perhaps
any cyclist pedalling at
British cycling was thrilled to
He
but in 1945 Jock Allison won the first full post-war edition.
However in
but his work was much-loved and inspirational
Harris would soon go on to become still
already won a slimmed-down version of the competition run in
but it was 1946 before
friends.
with some
Reg Harris
1947.
1945.
1946.
Bidlake
When
more celebrated,
through two generations.
an active cyclist himself,
There was no award.
Albert Derbyshire.
scenes like those which he drew.
1947.
1944,
have a British world champion at last,
Derbyshire
following injuries in a car crash just before the Games.
except in his younger days,
speed on the roads of Britain was likely to hear calls of,
the first since 1922.
records in the 50 and the 100.
Patterson himself was a strange,
and was only twenty years old,
was seen as a near-certainty for an Olympic gold in London in 1948,
Reg Harris won the World Amateur Sprint title in Paris,
have been given the Bidlake in 1945,
three national championships and the BBAR,
petition had been founded in 1930,
and a household name in this country.Throughout the 1950s,
reclusive man,
was honoured by the Bidlake committee.
“Who do you think you are,
but he was not.
1946 Derbyshire’s superiority in time-trialling was complete:
Reg Harris?”
Since he was the first Scotsman (and still the only one) ever to win it,
he won
but finished with the silver medal,
It took a long time for a BAR champion to be given the Bidlake.The com-
He would take the BBAR title again in
Derbyshire had
who was certainly not
and broke competition
this young coal-miner might perhaps
any cyclist pedalling at
British cycling was thrilled to
He
but in 1945 Jock Allison won the first full post-war edition.
However in
but his work was much-loved and inspirational
Harris would soon go on to become still
already won a slimmed-down version of the competition run in
but it was 1946 before
