Re: [CR]Eddie Soens

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To: pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Eddie Soens
From: "Richard M Sachs" <richardsachs@juno.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:52:09 -0500

wasn't eddie soens also a mentor of dave lloyd and more recently, gord singleton? e-RICHIE Richard Sachs Cycles No.9, North Main Street Chester, CT 06412 USA http://www.richardsachs.com Tel. 860.526.2059

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:27:22 +0000 (GMT) =?iso-8859-1?q?michael=20butler?= <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Steven Thomas from the list has been asking about this cycling
> great, hope this is of interest.
>
> Eddie Soens the surname is probably Flemish in origin was one of the
> four surviving sons of James Soens born in 1872. James Soens is
> reputed to have started the first racing bike building business in
> Liverpool s just prior to the turn of the twentieth century. The
> business closed when he volunteered for service during the Great War
> at the age of 42. He survived the war unscathed and lived to the age
> of 84. His four sons were James, Thomas, Edward (Eddie) and Douglas.
>
> The eldest son James opened a cycling shop in !936 building hand -
> built bicycles still trading today under the name of Pete Matthews.
> Tommy was a very good track rider as was Eddie, but Eddie Soens is
> best remembered as one of the greatest British cycling coaches of
> all time. Due to his influential training methods he helped win more
> British, Worlds and Olympic titles than any other British coach.
>
> Eddie Soens had a bike shop in Liverpool for several years and this
> was called SoenSport their address was 110 Boaler Street, Liverpool,
> 6. During the early 60’s their frames were extremely popular
> especially the track models. The models produced at the time were
> the Campionissimo road frame, ‘55’ Time Trial Special, Vigorelli
> Sprinters Frame and the Roma Pursuit light track frame. Ron Spencer
> of the Warrington CC who was a very good timetrialist in the 60’s
> rode an Eddie Soens bike. There is Eddie Soens memorable race run
> every year to honour his memory.
>
>
> Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK
>
>
>
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