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Ah yes, I just got back off a weeks holiday, suppose I should have looked at what’s been discussed 😳
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yes of course I do.But Iam afraid we have no chance what with scumsucking robbing b…..d Gordon Brownand the greens.All is lost!
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Penguin45 wrote:I take that Reg is known to you, Jim?
Welcome aboard Reg……..
Chris.
Come on Chris, you are having me on aren’t you. 😆Britain’s first cycling superstar was Reg Harris, five times the World Sprint Champion and the winner of two silver medals in the 1948 Olympics.
The only survivor of a tank attack in the Western Desert in 1940, Harris was discharged as ‘medically unfit’, but the doctors under-estimated his determined character and in 1947 he won the World Amateur Sprint Championships. In 1957, just ten years after his first world title, he retired and became the proud owner of the historic Fallowfield track in Manchester. It was renamed the Harris Stadium. But life was not easy outside the track. So in 1971 he returned to sprint racing. He caused a sensation. He was 51. Losing in the semi-finals of the British Championship didn’t stop him, and in 1974 incredibly, at the age of 54 he won his fifth British Sprint Championship.
Reg’s famous Raleigh bikes are now prized collectors items. Particularly revered is the one owned by cycling history enthusiast Dennis Wright, who proudly demonstrates to us what a fine bike it is. Top cycling promoter Alan Rushton and journalist Roger St Pierre are among those that we hear from.
Twice voted the BBC’s “Sports Personality of the Year”, Harris was debonair, charming, well spoken, and known affectionately as ‘Sir’ Reg. He loved fast cars, race horses and good wine. Such was his profile, the BBC made a film on him, called ‘Maestro’ and this special film is included, for the first time on this video. So sit back and enjoy the life and times of a young lad from Lancashire whose name became famous the world overRe: Do you want cheaper fuel?
I see…. A “Pune” or play on words (or even names). I think the operative word in your post was “was”….
Reg appears to have bicycled off to the great banked track in the sky in 1992.
Obviously I must be slightly younger than you. 😀 😀
Chris.
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