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Was going to put this in the tarck forum but thought it may be of interest to a few more on here.
Basically, from what I hear, my great grandpa was fucking awesome: Dock worker, featherweight bare-knuckle champ and epic cyclist. The attached files are an article about his cycling exploits in the early part of the 20th century. The article covers track racing, brakless night races, tandem crashes and a little about his time spent as a coach at Herne Hill. Could be of interest to track geeks, racing historians etc. It's also pretty funny at times.
A little wordy but certainly worth the read. I think the article was written at some point in the 50's...
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My mum vaguely remembers him having awesomely modified bikes to allow him to keep riding once arthritis set in and that at his funeral loads of dude from his club(mostly in there 80's) made the ride in from around the country.