Re: [CR]Reg Harris Raleigh Track Bike

(Example: Racing:Roger de Vlaeminck)

From: <MasiGC3V@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 00:20:45 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Reg Harris Raleigh Track Bike
To: pdscott@gte.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 10/1/01 10:08:10 PM Central Daylight Time, pdscott@gte.net writes:


> Anyone know what happened to all of Raleigh Track bikes that Reg Harris
> rode. I think Reg Harris was one of the all time great sprinters of all
>

"Harris declared his intention to ride in the 1974 British Professional Sprint Championships and asked to borrow back his old Raleigh bicycle from the stores....[I]nstructions were given to take the old machine out of storage...Inevitably several hours work were needed to bring the bicycle back to peak condition and the British team mechanic worked on it far into the night..."

"After he had completed his first training sessions on the Raleigh, numerous members of the press and television parties went up to ask him about his bicycle"..."This bike is twenty-five years old and it has only just been taken out from under a pile of dust-sheets at the Raleigh factory" "His listeners were stunned. How could a fifty-four-year-old-man on a twenty-five-year-old bicycle seriously take on the pride of English cycling youth on the latest possible mounts? " (He, of course, won!)

Excerpted from The Story of the Raleigh Bicycle, by Gregory Houston Bowden, W.H.Allen Publisher, copyright 1975

So, to partially answer the question, the bikes remained the property of the sponsor, Raleigh.

Regards,

CarloCarr New Orleans (Fresh from the Delaware MS-150 held over the weekend, completed on a RivRoad w/ Brooks saddle and Nuovo Record/Record mixed gruppo)