Cycling Heroes

Edward Ignacius Scoble
a cycling hero, has experienced so much in the world of cycling for one so young and always happy to share his wealth of information and experience.
a true legend.

Bugger off you cockwhallop.

hippy:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread65275.html

Here is the video of the fatbike/pack raft tour i mentioned a few posts up. Inspirational!

http://youtu.be/O2cf1fF1i2E

Joe Summerfield deserve a mentioned here.

He not only tour round the world, nor just went up to Everest Base Camp, but did it on an Ordinary.

I read about his reasoning, one of them is that he wanted to pay homage to the first cyclotourist in the world, whom did it on an Ordinary too back in the 19th Century, so he took a stone from his grave, put it in his bag and rode round the world before putting it back.

I hasn't got the book where he said that as I lend it to a friend whom going on a cyclotour.

http://www.pennyfarthingworldtour.com/

^^Humbled.

Also that Hippy chap cracking the 24hr

Bumped into Chen Guan Ming yesterday in Chinatown

Absolute hero.

Marshall " Major" Taylor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Taylor

Won most things when allowed to compete.
The doping was already there, nitroglycerine the fav at that stage.
The Tour is still an all male thing today,
the diversity of our societies not really mirrored.
Still some way to go.

Tommy Godwin:- http://www.tommygodwin.com/

He cycled 75,065 miles in 1939 (an average of 205 miles per day).

He then carried on until May 1940 until he had the 100,000 mile record, then spent a few weeks learning how to walk again before going off to serve in the RAF during the war.

That is HTFU.