Cycling Magazines - Golden Book of Cycling, Cycling Weekly, Sporting Cyclist, Momentum, Procycling, Mountain Biking UK, Velo Vision (Paperback)

Chapters: Golden Book of Cycling, Cycling Weekly, Sporting Cyclist, Momentum, Procycling, Mountain Biking Uk, Velo Vision, Rouleur Magazine, Bicycle Quarterly. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Golden Book of Cycling was created in 1932 by 'Cycling', a British cycling magazine, to celebrate "the Sport and Pastime of Cycling by recording the outstanding rides, deeds and accomplishments of cyclists, officials and administrators." Each page was crafted to honour a single cycling hero. The original book was finished in 1972, but the tradition has been continued by another organisation. Southall holds the world's unpaced standing start track records at one, five, ten and twenty miles. He also holds 28 national track records. On the road he has won every classic open event, including hill-climbs, making competition records at 25, 50 and 100 miles. Hubert Opperman, four times profesional road champion of Australia, created history in 1934 when he travelled to this country with the set purpose of attacking English national road records. Within fourteen days he had broken five R.R.A. records in two great rides. His first performance was to set up new figures of 9 hours 23 minutes for the London to York journey, continuing to do 243 miles in twelve hours. During his second ride, for the first time in the history of the sport, he broke the three longest records on the books of the Association. He set up a new 24 hour mileage of the 431.5; he did the 866 mile journey from Land's End to John o'Groats in 2 days 9 hours 1 minute and went on to cover the 1,000 miles in 3 days 1 hour 52 minutes. It was an epic ride. The outbreak of the Second World War failed to stem the onslaught of Marguerite Wilson upon Women's National Records. Over a period of four yea...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1944009