Hell Yeah! Friday smiles...

Kenji Muto Quiroz captures Garry Millburn winning the Rapha Nobeyama Supercross 2016 in Japan

Jan Raas in Ti-Raleigh colours

Here's hoping for a muddy Spring Classics season...

Not Friday but it made me smile:

So it's typical late summer Tuesday evening. You're 88 years old. You've just finished your tea and watched Eggheads. You're waiting for Emmerdale to start so you settle down with a nice glass of your favourite malt. Not if you're Sid Wilson, you don't. You go to the garage, put your trusty 30 year old racing bike in the car. Change into your Sheffield Phoenix (I've been a cyclist for over 40 years and Sid has been in that club since time began) cycling lycra. Head off down to the local evening 10 and blast around the course, whilst your heart beats at about 150 beats a minute. You finish the race, then go and have chat with your daughter, son-in-law and grandson, all fantastic cyclists in their own right, then tootle off home till the next time. Utter LEGEND.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfrwe9l7FYo

I miss this thread. Good work jack.

amazing 😁

awesome, thanks for sharing sptr

Not Friday but this thread needed a bump

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/05/82-year-old-become-first-person-britain-cycle-one-million-miles/

Absolutely mind boggling! I hope he has at least another 100,000 still in him.

What a legend. Chapeau, as they say

Still not Friday - Palmer Park track in 1989

Anyone know who made those huffy frames? Unless it actually was huffy...

Ben Serotta believe.

Serotta, with lugs made by Kelly Bedford. I found this out this morning, which led me to these great photos of Andy Hampsten.

Not bike-related, but provided some smiles:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9FEO-XKo4cw

From https://cyclingtips.com/2021/01/2020-mark-gunter-photographer-of-the-year-awards-showcase-3/

From https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/02/pride-power-pedals-protest-black-lives-matter-british-photographers-best-shot

https://youtu.be/6DNUIxubdGg

Pit stop on the Tour de France 1966 // Injured Cyclist Van den Bossche // Jaques Anquetil refreshing on Tour de France 1959.

While doing a back-up I have come accross these images I scanned few years ago from a collection of the sports magazine Le Miroir des Sports covering Tour de France editions of the 1960s. If you want higher resolution files for your personal use, click on the image and download from my Flickr account. Enjoy!