[CR] Tandem Pairs & Gillotts

(Example: Framebuilders:Alex Singer)

Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:12:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Michael Butler" <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [CR] Tandem Pairs & Gillotts
To: CR Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Mark, My apologies for posting this via CR but you were asking sometime ago about Brothers who raced tandems. Well I went out for a short ride this morning and where I stopped for elevenses there were some old CTC members, I'm old but these were ancient! One of them got talking about Claud Butlers and I told him there was one hell of a debate going on about Lugged and Lugless frames on the internet. By the way I had already spoken to Ted Ernst earlier in the morning about CB Lugless tandems, when one of them said to one of the group do you remember at Herne Hill when Reg Harris & Alan Bannister ripped out the bottom brackets on that lugless Claud USWB they were on. What a coincidence I had already mentioned this to Ted earlier in the day. Turns out they use to go to the Hill to watch all the N.C.U One Mile Tandem Championships they had seen all the greats Sibbit & Chambers, Burgess & Pond, Harrison & Hampshire and of course Harris & Bannister. Well I had to ask if they knew of any brother pairings from this period and they said of course the Bond brothers Maidenhead C&A.C. Are these your men? Best wishes Mick. The cakes were crap won't stop there again.

Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.