FW: RE: [CR] Tandem Pairs & Gillotts

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From: "neil foddering" <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: FW: RE: [CR] Tandem Pairs & Gillotts
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:28:14 +0000


Sorry, omitted proper signoff, as I thought I was sending this only to Mick.

Neil Foddering Weymouth, England


>From: "neil foddering" <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
>To: pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk
>CC: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: RE: [CR] Tandem Pairs & Gillotts
>Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:25:40 +0000
>
>Yes Mick, and I also noticed that it's on sprints - the spare tub(s) are
>strapped under the stoker's saddle, but I guess that sprints would have
>been normal practice for time trials and record atttempts? I'm guessing
>we're talking a record here, since I don't imagine they'd have bothered
>with such a drawing of someone winning a time trial. I'll just have to
>wait until the right copy of "Cycling" turns up, I suppose - I missed a
>complete run from 1933 to 1948 this summer, because I didn't have the money
>in time. Bugger.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Neil
>
>
>>From: Michael Butler <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk>
>>To: neil foddering <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
>>CC: CR Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>>Subject: RE: [CR] Tandem Pairs & Gillotts
>>Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:25:22 +0000 (GMT)
>>
>>I honestly don't know but did you spot anything on the
>>tandem?
>>Built for long distance time trialling 12's and 24's
>>it has twin brazed on lamp brackets on the front
>>forks. That was normal practice yonks ago.
>>Best wishes Mick.
>>
>>
>>
>>--- neil foddering <neilfoddering@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Whilst on the subject of tandem pairs, can anyone
>> > help me identify the pair
>> > in an original Patterson drawing I own? I believe
>> > it dates to the 1930's,
>> > and it has been suggested that the timekeeper
>> > illustrated is B. W. Best. I
>> > assume that it depicts a successful record attempt,
>> > because of the arms
>> > holding the laurel wreaths, but there's no title or
>> > other indication of when
>> > and what it relates to.
>> >
>> > It can be viewed at
>> >
>>http://photobucket.com/albums/v396/hadendowa/Patterson/
>> >
>> > Neil Foddering
>> > Weymouth, England
>> >
>> >
>> > >From: Michael Butler <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk>
>> > >To: CR Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>> > >Subject: [CR] Tandem Pairs & Gillotts Date: Sun, 4
>> > Dec 2005 17:12:33 +0000
>> > >(GMT)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >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.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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>>
>>Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not
>>still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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