Re: [CR]Simmy on a Moulton and Kirk...

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Falck)

Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:45:45 +0000
From: "Hilary Stone" <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: greenjersey@ntlworld.com
Subject: Re: [CR]Simmy on a Moulton and Kirk...
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There are more details in Tony Hadland's Moulton book about Tom Simpson testing the Moulton at Herne Hill track in Easter 1963. Tony also goes into great detail re John Woodburn's Cardiff\u2013London record. He makes mentions of the rumours surrounding locked up suspension and suggests that this was unlikely bearing in mind the ultra-light tubs used and the 16 spoke front wheel. John Woodburn is also on record in the book as praising the rear suspension action when talking to Tony but disliking the front suspension especially on hills. What is more interesting I think is the pic of a four man pursuit team at the Coventry Butts track on Moultons \u2013 the Moultons offer a real advantage in team pursuits (or team TTs too) as it possible because of the small wheels to draft the rider in front far closer than with bikes with conventional sized wheels...

Onto far less worthy dead end designs, Dag Otto Lauritzen probably did not get as far along the course as you were standing, Roy \u2013 they were pretty fragile!

Hilary Stone, Bristol, England

greenjersey@ntlworld.com wrote:
> It is accepted that 1960s pros would do pretty much anything to top up their modest salaries but I must say that I never heard the Simpson racing on a Moulton story. If the idea was to get publicity for the company it failed!
> As it rained all day today I got my cycling fix by re-watching the 1993 Tour of Flanders video tape. It was mentioned that Dag Otto Lauritzen of the Dutch TVM Team was riding a Kirk Precision magnesium frame. Perhaps not surprisingly he wasn't in the break so I didn't get to see his bike.
> Ray Green, Brighton, England
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