(photo - Barry Davies Collection - click on image to view full size)Our last 'Davies Archive' photograph for a few days as we'll be leaving for God's Own Country in the morning - but our thanks to Barry allowing us access to these images. There are in fact some more pictures to display but they'll have to wait a little while - and all these photos will be posted here in a picture gallery in a couple of weeks.
Now. Some of us are old enough to remember the unadulerated joy of wearing saggy & smelly wool shorts and jerseys for racing - and don't even ask about what happened to tracksuit bottoms in the rain...
Barry was the first rider in the UK to wear a lycra skinsuit and coloured shorts - and almost got himself banned by the British Cycling Federation as a result (in fact the requirement to wear black or dark coloured racing shorts remained formally in the rule books until relatively recently).
Here he is in 1980 riding for Trumanns Steel wearing the offending togs near the top of Pen-y-Ghent.
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the rule said shorts had to be black or dark colour, Molly at Beeb Bag clothing, who made my skin suits, said red was a darker colour than yellow so we hade red shorts, but the stuffy old sods at the BCF did not agree !!!! so in the november I went bag to blavk shorts, they must be turning in there graves now, white shorts are a real no no baz
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