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Breakheart Hill, and with over half a mile to go, Beyaert again sprinted into the lead and opened up a gap of at least eight lengths which was too much for any of his rivals, all of whom seemed more tired than the winner at the finish... Great Britain had two riders among the leading group, R. Maitland and G. Thomas, and C.S.I. Scott came in sixteenth to gain the second team award.
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by bus and we all got seats except for one of our riders, who had to stand. Frank could see the officials on the bus all had seats. So he went to a Dutch official and said his rider was having to stand and asked this guy to give up his seat. Now, Frank was the strongest guy I've known and when the
Dutchman hesitated, he grabbed him by the lapels, lifted him two feet in the air and dropped him on the floor. (Bob Maitland)
426:: "We cannot send a team to the Tour unless we are willing to gamble heavily with men's reputations, our future in the race, and Britain's sporting prestige. Any rider we could send in 1955 could know more about the Tour than what he had read, heard, or imagined. It would fall far short of reality, for the Tour is unique in terrain, weather variation, racing technique and a hundred and one other things."
487:, said of him: "It is one thing to have a near-perfectly developed body, capable of the highest tests of human endurance, but the brain of that body must be tuned accordingly, able to dictate and control physical behaviour. And who can doubt that, so far as cycling is concerned, Bob Maitland, national mass start champion in 1949, is one of the shrewdest riders in the game?" He died on 26 August 2010 in
653:, as it came to be known, resisted the ban by riding lone races against the clock, in secret, out in the countryside, and soon after dawn. The NCU and RTTC soon came to recognise each other but they resisted the arrival of the British League of Racing Cyclists, which in defiance of both began organising races on the open road during the war. See
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Birmingham Time Trial Association 25-mile event. He finished in 1h 13m 22s, 10 minutes slower than the winner. He won a junior race
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British cyclists had experienced one of the northern spring classics, so they had no idea that the Tour could be so much harder and faster than the races they had known. The early stages were a shock. And then, between Roubaix and Namur, the British had the
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Britain in the 1955 Tour de France - the race was then competed by national teams - in a team selected by cycling journalists because the civil war between the National Cyclists Union and the British League of Racing Cyclists made it impossible to leave the job to either. The team
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