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By Guy Redshaw April 14, 2018December 29, 2020 Road bikes

Sundays CTC (Cyclist Touring Club) ride – sometime in 1976

It takes me 15 minutes, post-cornflake-breakfast, to ride to the meeting point and ready for the 9am start. It’s early May and Spring is starting to breakthrough the UK northern skies above me. I arrive at the meeting place and am greeted warmly by the small group already there. I

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By Guy Redshaw April 12, 2018December 29, 2024 Road bikes

An evening criterium race, Hull, East Yorkshire, UK and sometime in the 1970s………

Its 9pm in the evening and I’ve just been presented with a special pennant for my ‘outstanding effort’. The pennant is made of a silky fabric in white, with black text printed on it and it has blue tassels on the bottom edge. Some blue nylon rope is attached to

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