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Forgotten? Not Here!
Even though so much of sport is soon forgotten, there are a small band people out there who collect and restore. They work at preserving something to serve has both a record of the past - and a resource for future generations.
In cycle sport there has been a steady growth in interest historic events - and the importance of preserving not just records but also memorabilia while this still possible.
Here I have collected together some links to interesting web sites - and added some original material of my own; especially for aspects of cycle sport that I could not find when searching for myself!
I guess that you all know about Tom Simpson’s memorials and the small museum at Harworth, the museum in the home of Fausto Coppi and the Tour of Flanders centre in Belgium [links below]. But I am still surprised when I find major events, and venues, unreported in the websphere. Worse still finding that there are entries but they are simply wrong.
So first up in my gap-filling journey is Camperdown Velodrome in Sydney, Australia with photos from around 1971
And following the theme of former track racing venues -there is Saffron Lane Leicester; venue for the World Championships in 1970. And I have found my old negatives of Legrams Lane Stadium, Bradford so know that it did once exist ....
But no one has found a suitable replacement for Essex’s Harlow Velodrome despite 15 years of “effort”!
And back with the Tom Simpson connection there is an attempt to make sense of the many variations of that iconic black and white Peugeot racing jerseys with their checkerboard band. A design that seems to keep reappearing.
The Huddersfield 2-Day road race in 1963 stretched the legs of many well-known British riders - a sort of Tour of Flanders but with real hills!
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