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Yes brakes, but it slingshotted him to the Swindon version causing an endless loop
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{can we replace the Godwin rule with the point within a thread that Elfin will pop up one?}
No no, wait; I expressed doubts because I was unaware of how such a feat was verified. Rather than blindly accepting things that I'm told, I like to see proof, you see? If you don't ask questions, you don't get answers. Forgive my scepticism, but I'm kind of [i]scientific[/i] like that. 😉
Anyway, Tommy's achievement was very very closely scrutinised in 1939 by Cycling magazine. He was shadowed regularly and his odometer was sealed and inspected daily by witnesses. A daily mileage card was then signed and submitted to Cycling magazine for verification. They watched him like a hawk as this was a very prestigious record that had switched from UK to Australia and back again in recent years.
Then fair enough. I now have absolutely no problem with the information. A truly incredible feat. 😯
No fred, you piled in with a theory about sponsors instead of politely asking for some clarification.
But ho hum, my work continues.
Well, lots of companies used to make all sorts of outlandish and exaggerated claims about their products, not least cigarette and alcohol manufacturers, so it's not unfeasible that such feats may well have bin exaggerated and embellished somewhat. My mum was actually alive in1939 and tells me that such things were common practice, but most people took them with a pinch of salt really. Modern laws dictate that you can't do this now, and you have to be more 'honest' about your products and services.
You've now provided more info that lends more weight to the story, and that's fine. Good work.
I don't think I was being particularly 'impolite' with my scepticism. And I wasnt' questioning [i]your[/i] integrity and sincerity in any way. You don't have to be so defensive now. 🙂
Not in the same league as Tommy Godwin's feat, but the CTC has the 300,000 mile club for lifetime mileage.
The leading member has now topped 900K! : [url= http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/new-world-record-cyclist.64196/ ]Chris Davies[/url]
I'm surprised that no one on here has made him eat dust.
Notice that he only needed 4 gears to do this mileage.
I would imagine he was inpotent by the end of that.
Van cough, he fathered three after the attempt. His son was conceived when Tommy was in his fifties