CYCLING : LAND’S END TO JOHN O’GROATS

CYCLING : LAND’S END TO JOHN O’GROATS
WRITTEN BY ALAN J. RAY

Published in 1971

Everyone loves an adventurer, and the purpose of this book is to tell the story of the adventurous men and women who have found fulfilent – and also sometimes fortune – in pitting themselves competitively on bicycles against the formidable obstacles confronting the traveller from Land’s End to John O’Groats.The tale is a long one, beginning with the first heroes who challenged the varied terrain and the climatic hardships of the route on solid-tyred high bicycles, and continues right up to the latest feats accomplished on modern featherweight machines equipped with elaborate systems of multiple gearing.

CONTENTS :
1. Introduction
2. The early days
3. The RRA and G.P. Mills
4. Other great performers of the paced era : T.A. Edge; L. Fletcher; R.H. Carlisle
5. The first unpaced records
6. Olley, Peck and Welsh (1905-1907)
7. “The year of victories’
8. J.W. Rossiter, 1934
9. Hubert Opperman, 1934
10. S.H. Ferris, 1937
11. D.J. Keeler and R.F. Randall, 1958
12. R.W.E. Poole
13. Formation of the WRRA : Lilian Dredge and Marguerite Wilson
14. Edith Atkins and Eileen Sheridan

The book has been used. Hard cover, 155 pages, English text.

ISBN : 7207 0505 3