Well young barca it was a Sunday night bank holiday weekend and I'm in viewing a CD of 300 black and white images of time trialists in action rather than being out having a few.
'A Time Trial Album' is the name of the said CD.
Berard Thompson was a 'famous' cycling photographer whos work covered the 50/60/70/80s.
No one suggested it was a road race. I was surprised at the amount of folk that turned out to watch small time events back then. If it had been the Milk Race then yes I would have expected numbers.
Anyhoo it's a great little photographic collection the quality of the images and style outweighs the rather boring subject.
Google Bernard Thompson photographer for some great old british cycling images.