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Twenty years ago, boy what a lot of racing going on. Even shed loads of the new fangled MTB racing.
On a piece of folded up A4 is a list of races I entered, one every week and proper open road races all within minutes of my home.
So looking through the book, it's hard to see how the sport has become better.
David Baker had been the National XC champ, Caroline Alexander the womens champ and J Shackleton the downhill champ?
And apparently the Conti tyres to be on were Pro Comps and Supercross's...no me neither.
Great little bit of cycling history.
Oh and the gear chart shows my scribbles, hang on while I get it out to wave......52/42 on 11-21.
Found the 1982 RTTC handbook last year in a box in the loft 😳
12-19 Maillard with a Campag Record 52 Pista chainset was my gearing in those days!!! Christ I must have been fit+light.
Bought back memories of sitting on the sofa (or settee as they were then)with a cuppa plotting out the season.
Strangely there's no cross in the 93 handbook. Track, MTB and roller racing but no cross?
82 huh. I would have been with Kenton RC, West London Div. Think I had a Viner then.
Cyclo-cross has only been in the BCF for around 10 years, so it would have been the British Cyclo-cross Association who ran it all then.
Alan.
Ah yes.
Still all the road races that have gone is amazing. Quite unusual I would think for a sport that's actually grown?