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Arthur Metcalfe

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260:, slept in a telephone box and then caught the ferry to the island. In 1966 he won the national amateur road race championship and, as an afterthought, the BBAR with a record average speed of 24.797 mph. The BBAR aggregated speeds of riders over 50 miles, 100 miles and 12 hours and specialist time-triallists usually devote their whole season to it. Metcalfe won in three straight rides, almost as an afterthought. "I remember thinking I needed a change. I'd ridden a few time trials in the past and so I thought I'd have another go," he said. 306:. Metcalfe and the rest of the team voted to continue. Metcalfe said: "I was in a right state. I just stood on my own all night. I was crying. It was the emotional strain on top of the physical strain. There was a lot of talk about whether we should pull out. felt we should stay in, so we just rode on. The rest of the race was a blur." 240:"It was a world-class field and over tough terrain. The British team had a tough time with crashes and punctures. But then Arthur decided to do something about it. On the last four stages of the race he finished first, sixth, first and third. ... Including a display of climbing ... which left some of the world's best riders grovelling." 299:- all rode full-time and for well-established teams on the Continent. Metcalfe was one of a few less-prepared riders chosen from Britain to make up the numbers. Nevertheless, Metcalfe finished 69th in 1967, when he dedicated his services and therefore his ambitions to Simpson, the team's only likely winner. 357:
To ride 90 miles a day is not the legend of the Tour de France. The philosophy of the Tour is that it's an epic of courage. We had stages of 233km. Sure, they go 2mph faster now, but you'd expect that. And there are 70 more riders. I was working for Carlton Cycles. British riders are all full-time
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club, setting records for 100 miles and 12 hours that still stood at his death. Metcalfe was a manager of the Carlton professional team for which he had once ridden and in 1987 managed the British professional team in the Milk Race. He worked as an insurance salesman and financial adviser in
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Road, and agreed to the company's name, MKM. But I decided in the end not to become involved in the venture. Imagine being sandwiched between two crafty bike-riders like that! In the end it was the right decision, they fell out and the business failed. I was left with the
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pros now and they're better than ever we were, so they can ride further. The argument is that they want a clean Tour. But you can ride 2,500 miles clean. The race may go 1mph slower but from the roadside you'd never notice it. You can't see a difference that small.
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1964 - 1st Milk Race, 1st points and mountains competition 1965 - 1st Welwyn two-day 1965 - 1st Manx Trophy 1965 - 1st Red Rose GP 1965 - 6th Milk Race 1966 - National champion 1966 - BBAR time-trial champion 1966 - 1st Ariel two-day 1966 - 12th Milk Race
333:. The building, Chapel Works, was owned by a cycle importer, Ron Kitching, and their combined initials gave the project's name: MKM. The company had the British licence to build frames under the name of the Tour de France winner, 280:, although he was allowed two mornings a week to train. Months later he rode the Tour de France during a break from work, a fact that persuaded French journalists that all the British team were similarly riding in their holidays. 627: 390:
Metcalfe was bitter about the suspension until the end of his life. Because he had also coached young riders while he was in South Africa, he said: "You think they would have given me a medal for that, not a suspension."
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They were both keen on bicycle manufacturing. Wes was a good frame builder and Arthur was sure that he could handle the marketing. I went so far as to buy the premises - an old chapel on
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1967 - 1st Bournemouth three-day 1967 - 2nd Vaux GP 1968 - 1st Folkestone-London 1968 - 1st Tour of the West 1968 - 1st Manx Trophy 1969 - 1st Teesside 1970 - 1st Percy Lewis
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Metcalfe—known among fellow professionals as "the snake" for his talent in wriggling into the winning break of a race—was handicapped at first by two years' compulsory
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In 1967 and 1968 the Tour was open to national rather than the usual commercially-sponsored teams that had made up the race since 1930. Britain's true professionals -
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on 27 September 1938, Arthur Metcalfe was the second of three brothers born to a cycling family. His father was a cycle-tourist. The family moved to
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group of companies. The British professional scene was expanding but there was still little money and Metcalfe worked in Carlton's offices at
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on 11 December 2002 just months after moving to France with his third wife, Anne. A mass ride is held in Yorkshire in his memory.
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had been diagnosed after he had seen a doctor because he could suddenly no longer ride as fast as he could. He died in
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Metcalfe said of the modern Tour de France that it was too short, that it should be "a proper length" - 2,500 miles.
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Metcalfe broke his pelvis in 1971, ending his career as a professional. He and a fellow professional, Wes Mason of
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and winning a prize as the day's most combative rider. He abandoned the Tour just before the end.
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era and excluded from world sport. For riding the race, Metcalfe was suspended by the
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The broken pelvis took two years to mend. By then, Metcalfe had been reinstated as an
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Having done all he could in Britain as an amateur, he turned professional in 1967 for
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when Arthur was 14. He was described then as a weak child. There he joined Hartlepool
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This article is about the British cyclist. For the Australian public servant, see
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for work and won the Rapport Tour, a stage race. South Africa was still in the
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Metcalfe rode the Tour again in 1968, heading the race alone on the stage to
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In the same year, he also won two stages of the Tour du St Laurent in
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with the army. He, like his brother Ken, was a military policeman in
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Breckon, Mike (1993), A Wheel in Two Worlds, privately published, UK
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described him as "always physically tough and tactically astute."
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Simpson died on the 13th stage of the race as he was climbing
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Fotheringham, Will (2005), Roule Britannia, Yellow Jersey, UK
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Metcalfe served his suspension, then began riding again with
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Daily Telegraph, 20 December 2002, Obituary, Arthur Metcalfe
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Woodland, Les (2005), This Island Race, Mousehold Press, UK
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and, as an amateur remains the only male rider to win the
208:, known then as the Milk Race. In 1964 he took the race 256:. Living once more in Leeds, he cycled from there to 140:(27 September 1938 – 11 December 2002) was a British 1840: 1470: 1127: 997: 837: 643: 123: 115: 110: 102: 94: 89: 72: 52: 44: 39: 502:Michael Breckon, funeral address, 20 December 2002 188:, "leaving many of his contemporaries trailing." 23:. For the English professional footballer, see 621: 8: 32: 637:British National Road Race Champions (men) 628: 614: 606: 478: 476: 474: 472: 31: 498: 496: 494: 460: 458: 456: 452: 244:In 1965 he won 23 times, including the 216:and he held the lead to the finish in 337:. 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Index

Arthur Metcalfe (public servant)
Arthur Metcalf
Leeds
Harrogate
racing cyclist
Tour de France
British road race championship
British Best All-Rounder
time trial
Leeds
Yorkshire
Hartlepool
Cycling Club
time trial
national service
Cyprus
Tour of Britain
yellow jersey
Cardiff
Blackpool
The Daily Telegraph
Canada
Manx International
Snaefell mountain course
Isle of Man
Liverpool
Carlton Cycles
Raleigh
Worksop
Tom Simpson

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