For those of you who are thinking of doing a 12 hour time trial here is the 2008 winning bike on ebay just waiting for you to bid. It's so very different to what is ridden these days and the advert has an interesting report on what Ian Cammish thinks of the event.
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Superb 100 miler, but less good at 12hrs. A bit retro for 1988 and for me far too big!!!
ReplyDeleteLook at that Freudian slip! Yes more of a 1988 bike than 2008 - except for the tri-bars
ReplyDeleteI thought that it was older especially as the bike has spoked wheels, but there is another photo in the advert which shows him riding the bike with a rear disc wheel. I was also surprised that he won this in 2008 because he was at his best in the 80's. So I checked wiki and found this:
ReplyDeleteIan Scott Cammish (born 1 October 1956) is an English time trial cyclist.
He dominated British time trialling in the 1980s, holding the Road Time Trials Council’s British Best All-Rounder for nine years – 1980 to 1985 consecutively (still the longest unbroken string of wins) and 1987 to 1989 consecutively.
Cammish has won and broken over 50 National Championships and Records including nine times National 100 miles champion and four times National 50 miles champion.
He was the first rider to break the 30 mph barrier for an out and back 50 mile time trial (1983 with 1hr 39mins 51secs).
In 1983 he broke his own existing RTTC out and back 100 mile record by an unprecedented 7 minutes or so with a time of 3hrs 31mins 53 secs, setting a new standard and goals for 100 mile time trials.[1]
He remains the current holder of the RRA (Road Records Association) 'straight out' 50 and 100 mile records (1hr 24mins 32 secs and 3hrs 11mins 11secs respectively).
Despite his successes he never won the National 12 Hour championship until the age of 51 when, in August 2008, he finally won the medal with his distance of 284.54 miles.
12 hour record 284 miles in 2008. Quite impressive but you sure it it was so little? If so it makes Frank Cubis distance of 256 miles at some point and my 253 miles in 1963 on a slow heavy steel bike with no tri-bars quite impressive!
ReplyDeleteIt's strange that such a superb 100 miler was so relatively poor at 12hr events, with the emphasis on relatively, 30 miles in a 12 hour is a fair bit - in fact 2.5 miles an hour!
ReplyDeleteI can remember him riding the National 100 on the superb Oxford course in the 80's. He did the first 3 30 something 100 and was moving noticeably faster that anyone else. He was catching Dave Lloyd for 10 minutes, but Lloyd got off before that happened.
Would have made a great pro except for the fact that he was a total individualist, not a team player at all. A bit like Obree in that respect.