| |
Club |
Mins |
Secs |
MPH |
Machine
and Gear |
| Tony
Page |
Rockingham
Forest Whlrs |
26
|
29
|
24.47
|
1950s
Condor Road/Path, SA FM |
| John
Tomlinson |
Sheffield
Phoenix CC |
26
|
53
|
24.10
|
1935
Granby, SA AM |
| Chris
Thompson |
Coalville
Wheelers |
26
|
59
|
24.01
|
1946
Paris, Tour de France, SA FC |
| Merlin
Evans |
Stockport
Clarion |
27
|
13
|
23.81
|
1959
Dawes Diploma, SA AM |
| Minoru
Mitsumoto |
Farnborough
& Camberley CC |
28
|
0
|
23.14
|
1990s
low-pro, ex Olympic women's track team, SA ASC
|
| Graham
Lansdell |
Tandem
Club |
28
|
13
|
22.97
|
1968
Mercian, SA ASC |
| David
Eccles |
Redmon
CC
***
|
28
|
59
|
22.36
|
1950s
Les Ephgrave, SA ASC |
| Jonathan
Brookes |
Welland
Valley Wheelers |
29
|
14
|
22.17
|
1954
Viking, SA FM |
| Brian
Donnan |
Cheltenham
& County CC***
|
31
|
10
|
20.79
|
1985
Cheltenham Pedersen, SA FC |
| Morgan
Reynolds |
Hinckley
CRC |
31
|
16
|
20.72
|
1948
Carpenter, SA AM |
| Tom
Jeffrey |
Loughborough
Phoenix |
32
|
39
|
19.85
|
1951
Stuart Purves, SA FM |
| Peter
Edwards |
Loughborough
Phoenix |
33
|
16
|
19.48
|
1957
Hill Special, SA ASC |
| Phil
Wray |
Milton
Keynes CC |
33
|
25
|
19.39
|
1939
Carlton Flyer, SA AW |
| Gordon
Allison |
Loughborough
Phoenix |
35
|
10
|
18.43
|
1952
Phillips Roadster, SA AW |
| David
Westwood |
Warwick
RC |
37
|
14
|
17.40
|
1898
Alpha Bantam,
Crypto-geared up to 66" fixed |
| Lorna
Wray |
A5
Rangers CC |
41
|
10
|
15.74
|
Humber
Ladies Sports, SA AW |
| Tony
Bush |
Loughborough
Phoenix |
50
|
35
|
12.81
|
Leach
Marathon
1914 SA A-type 3-speed |
| David
Hancock |
Hitchin
Nomads |
DNS
|
0
|
|
Strudwick,
SA AM |
|
***
Time
lost through having to dismount. Donnan lost some
minutes, and Eccles some seconds |
|
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|
| Tin
Can Ten, 22 July 2000
Race Report by Organiser David Eccles
|
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| 
The Tin Can
Simon Antill Trophy
|
The
Tin Can Simon Antill Trophy went to Tony
Page for
the second year in succession - plus a Tin Can
T-shirt |
| T-shirt
... postcards ...
and a sock ... |
A
Tin Can T-shirt went to John Tomlinson for
the second best time and a packet of postcards to
Chris Thompson for a very close
third. Postcards also went to Lorna Wray
as the quickest lady and Brian Donnan got the Loughborough
Sock for being delayed. |
| A
big thanks to ... |
A
big thanks to Loughborough Phoenix
for organising this unique event once again, especially
to timekeeper Stuart Crick, to pusher-off Jim Hanam,
to marshalls Dave Leigh, Martin Temple, Dave Carter,
Bill Marshall, Eric Sayliss, and John Stone, to
Eileen Johnson and John Williams at the refreshment
bar and to each and all who so kindly contributed
to cakes. |
|
|
| millennial
Tin Can Ten |
Grey
skies and a strong nor’ easterty wind greeted
the riders of the millennial Tin Can Ten, some of
whom were not too distressed at having to compete
in temperatures slightly less than the tar-melting
scorchers of previous years. |
| Trophy
was retained |
The
tin Man Trophy was retained by Tony Page with a
five second improvement on his last year’s
winning time. Pretty good work for a man who by
his own admission no longer does time trials, and
given that he rode this year on a frame provided
by John Stone which we understand cost the princely
sum of £8.00 - Trek, Corima and Cannondale takenote.
|
| past
winners |
It
was very good to see past winner John Tomlinson
back again, though a certain lack of recent training
miles may have excluded him from the magic 25 he
was wont to put in on earlier occasions, but what
about next year? A mere six seconds behind was another
past trophy holder, Chris Thompson, a man also capable
of 25, an the right day. |
superb
... Alpha Bantam |
Perhaps
the most interesting machine on the course was David
Westwood’s superbly presented Alpha Bantam,
and his heroic time of 37-14 was remarkable; driving,
or being driven by, a 66 inch fixed front wheel
down the ‘hill’ with handlebars at hip
level would not suit Lance Armstrong - or many other
people - for much further than ten miles. [He will
get a T-shirt in the post for his efforts.] |
| a
century between ironmongery |
With
roughly a century between the ironmongery, Mitsumoto
on his low profile Raleigh made a marked contrast
to the Alpha. What we wonder will the machine of
3000 look like? As usual at the Tin Can among the
machines with fairly conventional frames there are
always a handful of interesting names: Leach and
Hill for example, and South London builder Stuart
Purves who was apparently only in business for one
year. |
| approaching
at such speed |
The
Cheltenham Pedersen can not be described as a conventional
frame by any means and it may be that the sight
of it so amazed a small local boy that he failed
to understand that Brian Donnan was approaching
at such speed. Brian received the Loughborough Sock
for handling the situation with such good sense,
tact and sportsmanship, especially as he was clearly
on his way to a big improvement in time over previous
years. Incidentally, for those of you who have
progressed from the era of epicyclic gears into
that of the intemet, Brian publishes Tin Can info
and pictures on his website www.donnan.co.uk
and a lot of other interesting stuff as well - well
worth a visit. |
| Tandem
Club |
it
was perhaps unfortunate that we were unable to persuade
the Tandem Club members, who were refreshing themselves
at the ‘Star’, to take part; it would
have been fascinating to see how the wheechair-cum-tandem
machine might have performed. |
tell
all your like-minded friends |
Next
year is going to be the tenth Tin
Can Ten, and we are hoping, with the assistance
of the Loughborough Phoenix (who make the whole
thing possible) to make it a special one. please
come along and support again the cause of racing
hub gears, and please tell all your like-minded
friends. |
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