Re: [CR]Beryl Burton's 100

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Subject: Re: [CR]Beryl Burton's 100
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:52:44 -0500
Thread-Topic: Re: [CR]Beryl Burton's 100
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From: "Silver, Mordecai" <MSilver@iso.com>
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Mick Butler wrote:

"Beryl Burton Morley CC 100 3h 55m 5s 1968

12 Hours Morley CC 277.25 miles 1967

24 Hours Hainault RC 438.16 miles 1983 age 46 I think."

I think B.B. said that the sub-4h 100-mile ride was the record that gave her most satisfaction. I wasn't aware that she made a second 24-hour attempt; she had to stop because of knee pain in the middle of her first.

Add to these: 25 miles (1976): 53.21 50 miles (1976): 1.51.30

Remember, this was before the days of funny bikes, aero-bars, and disc wheels. And she was never a professional cyclist. In those days, unless a woman was subsidized by the state (as in the USSR) she couldn't make any money from cycling.

Mordecai "to whom B.B. is a great inspiration" Silver NYC, NY