i had the fortune of going on a couple of runs with Gary Dighton and his club mates, (i was a triathalete) when he lived in the Peterborough area, but stopped because of his sheer pace! he was such a nice guy (used to bump into him in the nightclubs in winter as well) a fantastic TT rider and an olympian amongst other acclolades so sad he took his own life..
@noelwelch16662 ай бұрын
That big back wheel is big brain thinking🤘
@Eomak2 ай бұрын
TT positions , really haven't changed that much other then they are all riding super low in the handler bars. Now a days most peeps ride higher but still low in a similar position.
@jonathanlord52543 ай бұрын
Did i hear the commentary say this used to be the O2 Course on the A1. i go back to 1962 August bank holiday Sunday when Frank Colden broke Ray Booty's 100 mile record by 4 minutes to 3 hr 54 mins . We heard about it via TT Army telephone at the Bawtry round about cafe after our 25 mile TT run by North Notts Olympic CC. i did my pb 1hr 0min 12 secs at age 18 yrs for 18 place. Bas Breedon won 55min 49 sec.A cool 36 years earlier than these stupendous recorded times. Don't the range of bikes look strange? As if they are waiting for carbon ! We had similar weather but with understated concrete dual carriageways ! Keep on riding all of you !
@user-bx5dm4op3p4 ай бұрын
The basic bikes, primitive timing....and no cars at all on smooth lovely tarmac!!
@roflrolf17825 ай бұрын
Kudos for your Strava ride!
@peterdelmonte98325 ай бұрын
Presumably part of an agreement with Lotus, the long term designer of that groundbreaking tubeless bike Mike Burrows, is omitted from the conversation here. If you visited his workshop (which I’m delighted to say I did a year before he died), you could see unmistakeable earlier prototypes of the bike hanging on the walls. I don’t underestimate the impact of Lotus in terms of the manufacture, wind tunnel and riding position work (and Burrows openly acknowledged that too), he was the originator. I’ll be 75 soon but my half hour natter with Mike in his workshop was a life highlight; I felt like a twittery teenager talking with my hero!
@9923morig5 ай бұрын
4:59 Tomity Senjafuda sticker !
@kennyh50836 ай бұрын
Too "Wiggly and Unstable" It will never fly! Make it a trike and you have another story!
@mikemowett74017 ай бұрын
Current Tandem World Hour Record (as of Dec 2023) is 51.194 km (31.81 miles) by Zac Carr & Glenn Taylor, GBR set in 2003 at Manchester. This broke 50.068 km (31.111 miles) record by Simon Keeton & Jon Rickards, GBR set in 2000 at Manchester. Hence this ride in the video is now 5th best all-time for a Tandem.
@mikemowett74017 ай бұрын
From other sources, their Hour distance was 49.245 km (30.599 miles) in this 1998 ride at the Manchester velodrome. This did not break the 49.991 km (31.063 miles) record of Ernie Mills & Bill Paul, GBR, set in 1937 at the Vigorelli Milan, ITA 397m outdoor covered wood velodrome. It was 3rd best all-time behind 49.625 km by Herve Dechamp & Guy Rouchouzo, FRA who set a UCI ParaOlympic Tandem record, November 29, 1997.
@paulwilliams85887 ай бұрын
42x23 up them hills💪😁
@taichihead427 ай бұрын
Ian Chivers was called a "Paddy" in this video for no reason by Shane Sutton and then Phil Liggit confirmed it by adding insult to injury. Disgusting behavior in a bike race and totally uncalled for.
@aarondcmedia95857 ай бұрын
Very similar to Zulle's prologue TT machine at the 1996 TdF. Looks fast!
@user-bx5dm4op3p7 ай бұрын
One of these most iconic sporting moments in cycling history from an athlete who was immense throughout the 90''s....winning prologues at the Tour, wearing the yellow jersey....beating the hour record and of course the first gold in 72 years for great britain.....
@peterquest64068 ай бұрын
Pity that child molester showed up in this.
@jono1457-qd9ft9 ай бұрын
Thanks for this. I was there. I can see a young and slim Primo, Peter Robinson in the purple Thornaby shirt doing the hefty pushing off.
@truthseeker827310 ай бұрын
Interesting how all this looks a lot like Gream Obree's bike...
@macaroniel10 ай бұрын
YESSS I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND SPARE BIKE ANYWHERE THANK YOU SO MUCH
@Neysconcealed9 ай бұрын
Same
@gsherlock10 ай бұрын
The audio is way too low.
@gsherlock10 ай бұрын
I was in an early season 10 mile time trial and Chris was off last in a field of 120. On a cold windy morning on the H10-1 course i came home in a disappointing 23.48 whilst my friend, the best in our club at the time and a future national champion finished in a respectable 22:30. Boardman posted a jaw dropping 20:02, almost 30 mph and about 1 minute ahead of the second place man.
@woodworks212311 ай бұрын
Legend, amazing athlete, designer, builder, innovator. Get him cloned!
@katiebee26611 ай бұрын
EPO central
@stevozrepto555811 ай бұрын
Rode it 3 or 4 s on irish team 85 87 92 when conor Henry won .
@taichihead427 ай бұрын
You rode this race? And now you wear a mask like a good little communist for the state do you.
@OurWorldIsBroken11 ай бұрын
One of the best 4K team track competitions ever!!! Ganna is a monster, he can almost do the 4K team alone!!! :D
@delwigzieful Жыл бұрын
The way lotus treated mike burrows was an absolute disgrace.Great video thank-you for posting.
@winterwatson643713 күн бұрын
yeah, it really showed in how differently he talked about lotus and giant
@howardpetermatthew Жыл бұрын
thanks for uploading this. I was a schoolboy racing at the time. Sad the Milk Race ended it was fantastic for the sport to have such a long running event and two weeks long! The heyday for me can't imagine a two week race in the UK now with the massive increase in costs of running such an event. Good memories.
@taichihead42 Жыл бұрын
It will take the UK a 1,000 years before they repair the damage.
@taichihead42 Жыл бұрын
Britain in 1990, still all white brits in ad's, rightly so it was their country. Now its black/white/Indians, really disgusting. They have their culture but you let them take yours.
@SuperDannyb1975Ай бұрын
Adverts are absolutely painful to watch now. Crap acting and boring as hell. Even without the blatant PC agenda where it's virtually always a black guy/white woman- grandad is Indian, kids are redheads and so on. Don't even have any funny ones like "Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet" or even just the quality cartoon ones like the aqua fresh toothpaste one or kia ora orange juice. Absolute shite with multi cultural Tripe constantly shoved in your face with all the subtlety of a sledge hammer.
@taichihead42 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant Stuff.
@taichihead42 Жыл бұрын
Look at the bikes back then. Diamond frames traditional design. And now they look like mountain bikes with sloping top tubes. No wonder there are so many crashes.
@brucewmclaughlin9072 Жыл бұрын
as i have nerve damage in both hands and my derriere complains about sittin on a couple square inches of the best Brooks saddle available I moved to a recumbent years ago and now not only do I have the speed I crave but the comfort that surpasses anything a diamond frame bike can deliver.
@clareella6767 Жыл бұрын
Only just found this - thank you :) bittersweet to see the lovely Joel Wainman who sadly lost his life to MND….
@user-cg7ql1mq8z Жыл бұрын
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@Iron_Lion_Of_Zion Жыл бұрын
Not sure which i like more, the interesting content, or the narrator! John Peel was a hero of my youth. RIP.
@cuebj Жыл бұрын
The days when GB won so few Olympic medals even a bronze got front pages and we knew their names and faces, let alone cycling gold. Nowadays, GB wins so many gold medals we only remember the set from our sports of interest! Boardman and Obree set things up for the lottery years. GB now doing it in gymnastics, swimming, but athletics - not so much. I don't even know all the Brits in races like Tour de Romandie or Women's Vuelta
@mikexhotmail Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing.
@TheYohtube Жыл бұрын
RIP Mike Burrows
@user-ey8lj8rb6z Жыл бұрын
Молодцы!!!
@0132222 Жыл бұрын
wow ! What a find. My local 25 course back then. Did my first 25 there in June 1979 Surrey Road RC event. 1-16-32 ! Rode out on a drizzly morning at 4.30am from Battersea housing estate. Hid tops and bottoms in a bush, rode event, then rode home. Got down to a 1-1-12 by 1984 (86 fixed) but never went 'under. I remember the dead turn well. Think it was then the G232 before becoming G233
@davefave435110 ай бұрын
Many of the courses we used to ride were shut down by the development of the M25 - my local Q10/2 used to start by the old Farnborough, now Princess Royal, Hospital, down then up to the Badgers Mount roundabout, now Junction 4. The G232 A3 25 miler? The Wisley interchange, Junction 10... My father used to give this 16 year old a lift usually but I remember a particularly grim 1:03.25 after a ride there into a headwind from Crystal Palace/ Sydenham. I was done before I got there!
@01322229 ай бұрын
@@davefave4351 yes into rode the Dartford 10 on the the 10/2. Now live beside the Q10/19.
@davefave43519 ай бұрын
@@0132222 Q10/19? The Tonbridge/Queensborough ski ramp?
@01322229 ай бұрын
yep.. Southborough A26 onto A21 to Sevenoaks. still in use very occasionally. @@davefave4351
@cornpopwasabaddude4729 Жыл бұрын
I love time trial bikes at this era. I hated when UCI banned this innovative design.
@MrKipperfish Жыл бұрын
Certain Lotus employees did Mike dirty in this video, barely able to contain their smirks and elitist disgust as they delivered their barely concealed insults. The irony of it all is that Mike was closer to their god, Colin Chapman, than they could ever have hoped to be.
@DaRealGrossBurger5 Жыл бұрын
Hello I have same name as you
@graememorrison333 Жыл бұрын
I'm sure King Alf (Engers) is competing. Problem is so many other riders seem to look like him, so I'm not sure which one he is! (Anyone know the winning time? Probably sub 50...)
@jono1457-qd9ft9 ай бұрын
Alf was fourth. The top four were very close. That's him starting @6.37 and at 3 miles to go @8.42 - 8.55 and at the finish @9.55 - 10.06 Eddie Adkins won in 55.36 Engers was fourth just a few seconds slower. Later in the season, Alf was the first man under 50, when he clocked 49.24 and Adkins was second in the same race in 50.50, the first man under 51 beating Engers' previous record of 51.00. I'm such a geek. But I was there by the roadside for the race in this video. It was a glorious day.
@graememorrison3339 ай бұрын
@@jono1457-qd9ft Thanks Jono!
@johnchap5052 Жыл бұрын
A fantastic watch during the Golden years of racing ,some great Legends 👍RIP Pete Longbottom what a rider he was 👏
@taichihead42 Жыл бұрын
Nothing has to change, its people who allow change to happen. Never happy with a perfect state of grace. Look at the rubbish bikes you have today. Disc brakes that keep rubbing, internal cable routing that takes hours to set up. Utter rubbish all made in China in sweat shops. A bit like the way the UK looks. One big Indian sweat shop.
@md.moinulislam9467 Жыл бұрын
Super luxurious speed machine....!
@nickadkins7878 Жыл бұрын
My Dad🏆❤️
@jono1457-qd9ft9 ай бұрын
Champion again. Your Dad's Mum was there too. She was very proud.
@davefave4351 Жыл бұрын
The G232, starting by Bolder Mere, a small reeded lake. Following the A3, this course, of course, no longer exists due to the M25 motorway. Rode it many times as a tubby, overweight junior on a stripped down and tricked out Holdsworth 'Mistral' touring frame, in the mid 70's, my pb a windy 58' 25"
@0132222 Жыл бұрын
that was a strong PB Dave ! chappeau .
@arisgemino Жыл бұрын
The dura-ace 7100 is my dream crank. One of these days ill be able to buy one
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i had the fortune of going on a couple of runs with Gary Dighton and his club mates, (i was a triathalete) when he lived in the Peterborough area, but stopped because of his sheer pace! he was such a nice guy (used to bump into him in the nightclubs in winter as well) a fantastic TT rider and an olympian amongst other acclolades so sad he took his own life..
That big back wheel is big brain thinking🤘
TT positions , really haven't changed that much other then they are all riding super low in the handler bars. Now a days most peeps ride higher but still low in a similar position.
Did i hear the commentary say this used to be the O2 Course on the A1. i go back to 1962 August bank holiday Sunday when Frank Colden broke Ray Booty's 100 mile record by 4 minutes to 3 hr 54 mins . We heard about it via TT Army telephone at the Bawtry round about cafe after our 25 mile TT run by North Notts Olympic CC. i did my pb 1hr 0min 12 secs at age 18 yrs for 18 place. Bas Breedon won 55min 49 sec.A cool 36 years earlier than these stupendous recorded times. Don't the range of bikes look strange? As if they are waiting for carbon ! We had similar weather but with understated concrete dual carriageways ! Keep on riding all of you !
The basic bikes, primitive timing....and no cars at all on smooth lovely tarmac!!
Kudos for your Strava ride!
Presumably part of an agreement with Lotus, the long term designer of that groundbreaking tubeless bike Mike Burrows, is omitted from the conversation here. If you visited his workshop (which I’m delighted to say I did a year before he died), you could see unmistakeable earlier prototypes of the bike hanging on the walls. I don’t underestimate the impact of Lotus in terms of the manufacture, wind tunnel and riding position work (and Burrows openly acknowledged that too), he was the originator. I’ll be 75 soon but my half hour natter with Mike in his workshop was a life highlight; I felt like a twittery teenager talking with my hero!
4:59 Tomity Senjafuda sticker !
Too "Wiggly and Unstable" It will never fly! Make it a trike and you have another story!
Current Tandem World Hour Record (as of Dec 2023) is 51.194 km (31.81 miles) by Zac Carr & Glenn Taylor, GBR set in 2003 at Manchester. This broke 50.068 km (31.111 miles) record by Simon Keeton & Jon Rickards, GBR set in 2000 at Manchester. Hence this ride in the video is now 5th best all-time for a Tandem.
From other sources, their Hour distance was 49.245 km (30.599 miles) in this 1998 ride at the Manchester velodrome. This did not break the 49.991 km (31.063 miles) record of Ernie Mills & Bill Paul, GBR, set in 1937 at the Vigorelli Milan, ITA 397m outdoor covered wood velodrome. It was 3rd best all-time behind 49.625 km by Herve Dechamp & Guy Rouchouzo, FRA who set a UCI ParaOlympic Tandem record, November 29, 1997.
42x23 up them hills💪😁
Ian Chivers was called a "Paddy" in this video for no reason by Shane Sutton and then Phil Liggit confirmed it by adding insult to injury. Disgusting behavior in a bike race and totally uncalled for.
Very similar to Zulle's prologue TT machine at the 1996 TdF. Looks fast!
One of these most iconic sporting moments in cycling history from an athlete who was immense throughout the 90''s....winning prologues at the Tour, wearing the yellow jersey....beating the hour record and of course the first gold in 72 years for great britain.....
Pity that child molester showed up in this.
Thanks for this. I was there. I can see a young and slim Primo, Peter Robinson in the purple Thornaby shirt doing the hefty pushing off.
Interesting how all this looks a lot like Gream Obree's bike...
YESSS I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND SPARE BIKE ANYWHERE THANK YOU SO MUCH
Same
The audio is way too low.
I was in an early season 10 mile time trial and Chris was off last in a field of 120. On a cold windy morning on the H10-1 course i came home in a disappointing 23.48 whilst my friend, the best in our club at the time and a future national champion finished in a respectable 22:30. Boardman posted a jaw dropping 20:02, almost 30 mph and about 1 minute ahead of the second place man.
Legend, amazing athlete, designer, builder, innovator. Get him cloned!
EPO central
Rode it 3 or 4 s on irish team 85 87 92 when conor Henry won .
You rode this race? And now you wear a mask like a good little communist for the state do you.
One of the best 4K team track competitions ever!!! Ganna is a monster, he can almost do the 4K team alone!!! :D
The way lotus treated mike burrows was an absolute disgrace.Great video thank-you for posting.
yeah, it really showed in how differently he talked about lotus and giant
thanks for uploading this. I was a schoolboy racing at the time. Sad the Milk Race ended it was fantastic for the sport to have such a long running event and two weeks long! The heyday for me can't imagine a two week race in the UK now with the massive increase in costs of running such an event. Good memories.
It will take the UK a 1,000 years before they repair the damage.
Britain in 1990, still all white brits in ad's, rightly so it was their country. Now its black/white/Indians, really disgusting. They have their culture but you let them take yours.
Adverts are absolutely painful to watch now. Crap acting and boring as hell. Even without the blatant PC agenda where it's virtually always a black guy/white woman- grandad is Indian, kids are redheads and so on. Don't even have any funny ones like "Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet" or even just the quality cartoon ones like the aqua fresh toothpaste one or kia ora orange juice. Absolute shite with multi cultural Tripe constantly shoved in your face with all the subtlety of a sledge hammer.
Brilliant Stuff.
Look at the bikes back then. Diamond frames traditional design. And now they look like mountain bikes with sloping top tubes. No wonder there are so many crashes.
as i have nerve damage in both hands and my derriere complains about sittin on a couple square inches of the best Brooks saddle available I moved to a recumbent years ago and now not only do I have the speed I crave but the comfort that surpasses anything a diamond frame bike can deliver.
Only just found this - thank you :) bittersweet to see the lovely Joel Wainman who sadly lost his life to MND….
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Not sure which i like more, the interesting content, or the narrator! John Peel was a hero of my youth. RIP.
The days when GB won so few Olympic medals even a bronze got front pages and we knew their names and faces, let alone cycling gold. Nowadays, GB wins so many gold medals we only remember the set from our sports of interest! Boardman and Obree set things up for the lottery years. GB now doing it in gymnastics, swimming, but athletics - not so much. I don't even know all the Brits in races like Tour de Romandie or Women's Vuelta
Thank you for sharing.
RIP Mike Burrows
Молодцы!!!
wow ! What a find. My local 25 course back then. Did my first 25 there in June 1979 Surrey Road RC event. 1-16-32 ! Rode out on a drizzly morning at 4.30am from Battersea housing estate. Hid tops and bottoms in a bush, rode event, then rode home. Got down to a 1-1-12 by 1984 (86 fixed) but never went 'under. I remember the dead turn well. Think it was then the G232 before becoming G233
Many of the courses we used to ride were shut down by the development of the M25 - my local Q10/2 used to start by the old Farnborough, now Princess Royal, Hospital, down then up to the Badgers Mount roundabout, now Junction 4. The G232 A3 25 miler? The Wisley interchange, Junction 10... My father used to give this 16 year old a lift usually but I remember a particularly grim 1:03.25 after a ride there into a headwind from Crystal Palace/ Sydenham. I was done before I got there!
@@davefave4351 yes into rode the Dartford 10 on the the 10/2. Now live beside the Q10/19.
@@0132222 Q10/19? The Tonbridge/Queensborough ski ramp?
yep.. Southborough A26 onto A21 to Sevenoaks. still in use very occasionally. @@davefave4351
I love time trial bikes at this era. I hated when UCI banned this innovative design.
Certain Lotus employees did Mike dirty in this video, barely able to contain their smirks and elitist disgust as they delivered their barely concealed insults. The irony of it all is that Mike was closer to their god, Colin Chapman, than they could ever have hoped to be.
Hello I have same name as you
I'm sure King Alf (Engers) is competing. Problem is so many other riders seem to look like him, so I'm not sure which one he is! (Anyone know the winning time? Probably sub 50...)
Alf was fourth. The top four were very close. That's him starting @6.37 and at 3 miles to go @8.42 - 8.55 and at the finish @9.55 - 10.06 Eddie Adkins won in 55.36 Engers was fourth just a few seconds slower. Later in the season, Alf was the first man under 50, when he clocked 49.24 and Adkins was second in the same race in 50.50, the first man under 51 beating Engers' previous record of 51.00. I'm such a geek. But I was there by the roadside for the race in this video. It was a glorious day.
@@jono1457-qd9ft Thanks Jono!
A fantastic watch during the Golden years of racing ,some great Legends 👍RIP Pete Longbottom what a rider he was 👏
Nothing has to change, its people who allow change to happen. Never happy with a perfect state of grace. Look at the rubbish bikes you have today. Disc brakes that keep rubbing, internal cable routing that takes hours to set up. Utter rubbish all made in China in sweat shops. A bit like the way the UK looks. One big Indian sweat shop.
Super luxurious speed machine....!
My Dad🏆❤️
Champion again. Your Dad's Mum was there too. She was very proud.
The G232, starting by Bolder Mere, a small reeded lake. Following the A3, this course, of course, no longer exists due to the M25 motorway. Rode it many times as a tubby, overweight junior on a stripped down and tricked out Holdsworth 'Mistral' touring frame, in the mid 70's, my pb a windy 58' 25"
that was a strong PB Dave ! chappeau .
The dura-ace 7100 is my dream crank. One of these days ill be able to buy one
Brilliant video thanks