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Title: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: ron b on August 31, 2014, 07:00:18 PM

Mark Rosser set off this morning for this event at 06 37 for the 12 hour ride, I have difficulty staying awake for that long.

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: Rob Jones on August 31, 2014, 07:39:28 PM

Mark Rosser? Not his cup of tea surely. Do you mean Mark Not...whoever it was can we have a report of the hell you went through etc...

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: Andy H on August 31, 2014, 07:57:09 PM

Definitely Mark Rosser, was sussing out route at club Friday night.

Did say he was stopping to have lunch with the family!!

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: Tom on August 31, 2014, 08:13:05 PM

We established a while ago Club Record is 266ish(Jean Paul).
Just in case Welsh Record is about 286ish(Shaun Childs I think breaking a record which had stood about 20 yrs-Norman will correct if I'm wrong
And just just in case National record about 307(not sure if that's still right)

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: Rob Jones on August 31, 2014, 09:34:44 PM

Wow, thought Mr Rosser had more sense...presume lunch thing was a joke but maybe not a bad idea. Good day for it I spose, if you have to put yourself through something like that. Tom you didn't post the international record...just in case!

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: Steven on September 01, 2014, 08:05:42 AM

Cant find anything just yet.  It was won with 280 miles.  Dan Coleman was second on 279.  One rider was 83 and he did over 160 miles !

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: Steven on September 01, 2014, 08:54:35 AM

184 miles in 9hrs 30 of riding. The suggestion is he stopped for lunch... !

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: Rob Jones on September 01, 2014, 10:16:35 AM

A long lunch....still more than most cyclists will ever ride in a day...a good average speed too

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: Steven on September 01, 2014, 12:13:00 PM

Update from Mark - 209 miles in 10.5 hrs riding, mostly on the road bike.....

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: Steven on September 01, 2014, 04:17:56 PM

Mark 'The Machine' Rosser...

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: Rob Jones on September 01, 2014, 07:46:00 PM

Wonder if he had starter and desert or just main course

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: ron b on September 02, 2014, 07:41:36 AM

Well done Mark.

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: ron b on September 03, 2014, 10:28:04 AM

Just been reading on "time trial forum" about the late Beryl Burton's 12 hour record set in 1967, on a steel bike with no air cheating gadgets, total distance 277 miles, which broke the ladies record at the time. To put things into perspective Mike McNamara broke the Men's record the same day with a total of 276. Was this the best performance of all time. Beryl's average speed 23 MPH.

Title: Re: Welsh 12 Hour TT
Post by: Tom on September 03, 2014, 12:47:14 PM

I've been banging on about this for years Ron-Britain's best cyclist of all time.She would have broken National 24 record the next year if she hadn't been hit by a car after about 16 hours.
Besy of all when she caught Macnamara on the finishing circuit she felt a bit awkward as he was setting what would have been a National Record so to ease the situation she pulled out her sweets and said 'Fancy a jelly baby Mike?'
Her biography is a good read,makes you really appreciate her achievments