For Sale: Vintage Musette

Good quality vinyl musette with world champion trim strap in very good condition posted for £6

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Colin Lewis was a quite a cyclist and rode the tour for GB in 1967...yeat Tom Simpson died.....the following is from CL's website:

'Colin Lewis
I started my cycling career when I was 19 years old. After two years of competing, I was selected for the 1960 'Milk Race', where I subsequently finished 7th overall. Over the following few years, I have competed as part of the Great British team in the French 'Tour de L'Avenir' and the Spanish San Sabastien World Road Championship. I reached the pinnacle of my amateur career after selection for the Tokyo Olympic Games (which I completed as the highest-ranking British rider), and the Commonwealth Games in Jamaica, where I narrowly missed out on the opportunity of a medal. I turned professional in 1967, where I finished the 'Tour de France' for the British National Team in the top 100. I also remain the only professional cyclist to emerge victorious from the National Professional Road Race Championship in Essex for two consecutive years. At the end of my cycling career I managed to secure a total of 250 victories, 38 of which as a professional, including the prestigious 'Golden Wheel Trophy' and 'Linz am Rhine'. Despite my retirement, I was determined to stay affiliated with every aspect from the world of cycling, and, in 1976, I established the Colin Lewis cycle dealership. Simultaneously to my position as the shop proprietor, I was appointed as the first manager of the New Eastway Cycle Circuit in Hackney, and spent the following 7 years as Coaching Director for the South West Centre of Excellence. Today, I now spend my time concentrating on my cycle store, and serving as President of my own club, the Mid Devon Cycling club.'

So the musette is linked to an interesting chap.....price is good too...i have EG Bates musette.

He has also developed some amazing charges too most who have been continental pros Hunt, Barker, Tiernan Locke, et al

dibs on bag plus the man himself way back when riding for Holdsworh Campagnolo
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Yep,please will take. I had the pleasure of riding with Colin when I was fit and young,some training rides over Dartmoor one Winter,Colin had just finished his pro career and at the time retiring pros were not allowed to race against amateurs I think for a couple of years,anyway he was awesome , downhill you couldn't follow him and uphill he was as though on a motorbike! He won't remember me I'm sure but he has always inspired me ,often as I slog up a hill! It was a privilege and I'm pretty sure I'm right in saying many pro teams on the Continent wanted to sign him but there were shall we say conditions .........I think Colin is writing a book at the moment I hope it sheds more light.

Oh Saxbys got in as I was writing ,hmmm perhaps my pm got ther first,.....anyhow Saxbys is a good chap.

thank you dr.fast for your kind comment....am happy to defer to you for the first refusal if you wish, I already have a small collection of musettes so it will stop me having to explain to 'er indoors why I was buying another!

Gratefully accept thanks alot. I did drag myself along behind Colin in some proper Winter Dartmoor rain,I was though rather hopeless at being his windbreak for very long.......a really top chap .

I did not go for because i hoped someone with a personal connection to CL would take it...my EG bates bag is personal as i knew Alan Bates. EG Bates son and bought a frame from them....tradition was with every frame...you got a free musette...the frame has long gone but the bag remains.

Lovely pic of CL in Holdsworth colours....good memories.

item now sold and dispatched to purchaser thank you all for interest shown

Ta for musette,gratefully received.