Re: [CR]Moulton (Alex) Classic Ride!

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From: <CYCLESTORE@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 23:46:15 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Moulton (Alex) Classic Ride!
To: monkeylad@mac.com, rocklube@adnc.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


Event Of Classic Interest, The John Woodburn ride which set a record that still stands (since a large bridge was destroyed on the original course a few years later?) was about 1962 and was about 167(?) miles in about 6h 47min (24.5mph) from Cardiff (Welsh capital) to the west gate of olde London is being rerun this fall we hope.

The Moulton Bicycle Club has invited Tour De France commentator; David Duffield, John Woodburn and assorted celebs and other hangers on to rerun the event along a course close to the original. Time is short to pick a date this year but the fortieth anniversary of the record ride will arrive in early December.

I called a knowledgeable club man (PBP vet he was) about the event and asked if was scheduled to take one, two or three days. The details are still to be determined but air flights to the UK are cheap cheap cheap in the fall.

Anyone interested in a partaking in a historic rerun of an event and grand times for sure, riding in the wind swept English in winter probably can't be beat.

Hillary, can you make it mate.

Regards,

Gilbert Anderson - Raleigh, NC

In a message dated 8/24/02 9:39:50 PM, monkeylad@mac.com writes:

<< At 1:37 PM -0700 8/24/02, Brian Baylis wrote:
>I would consider the Alex Moulton on topic here; at least the ones I
>have.

In the words of one of my fave silver screen Action Heros "Yea baby. . . yea, yea." Lightweight brazed steel and within the list time frame, nothing in the rules about small wheels. One of the bikes I hope to own one day would be one like John Woodburn's Moulton Speed with a S-A FC hub like the on pictured on P.143 of Hadland's "The Sturmey-Archer Story." After working for the decidedly not-classic Bike Friday I have great respect for small wheeled bikes that come apart as performance bikes. In the late-70's when Raleigh allowed Sir Alex to produce bikes again he created the very cool "spaceframe" AM series which I would also like to have. One of my goals when Mitzi and I move to Belgium next year is to search out a a few of these hard-to-find-in-the-US bikes. Just so people don't think I'm just trying to up my post count I have a question. Were there any other companies that marketed racing bikes with internal hubs that anyone can think of? It seems to me that racers went right from single speeds to deraileurs and bypassed multi-geared hubs completely. Ciao, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives SB, CA -- >>

Gilbert Anderson

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