John Davies


This is the information held in the database about John Davies.

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Records

 

Note: Tri = Tricycle; Tan = Tandem; TT = Tandem Tricycle

Rider
(Gender/Category)
Time
Position
Event
Distance      Course
Date

John Davies Team12 HourKent CA 12 Hour 19 August 1962
692.390 miles
1962
John Davies Team14h 09m 59s
East Sussex CA 100 miles 15 July 1962
100 miles     
1962
John Davies Team6h 28m 43s
Club 50 miles 8 July 1962
50 miles      Q142
1962
John Davies 12 HourEast Sussex CA 12 Hour 12 August 1962
234.533 miles G56
1962

Time Trial Results

 

Note: Tri = Tricycle; Tan = Tandem; TT = Tandem Tricycle

Rider
(Gender/Category)
Time
Position
Event
Distance      Course
Year

(R) John Davies 12 HourEast Sussex CA 12 Hour 12 August 1962
234.533 miles G56
1962
John Davies 12 HourKent CA 12 Hour 19 August 1962
233.926 miles
1962
John Davies 2h 08m 05s
Club 50 miles 8 July 1962
50 miles      Q142
1962
John Davies 25m 40s
Club 10 miles 1 August 1963
10 miles     
1963
John Davies 1h 14m 23s
East Sussex CA 25 miles 9 September 1962
25 miles      G52
1962
John Davies 2h 13m 45s
East Sussex CA 50 miles 2 September 1962
50 miles      G54
1962

Road Race Results

 

Rider
(Gender/Category)
Time
Position
Event
Distance      Course
Year

John Davies DNFPuteux Road Race 50 miles 1 April 1962
50 miles     
1962

Articles

CLUB RACING IN PARIS 1962

Source:   Date added:2023-02-15  Tags: Robert French, Maurice Carpenter, Lyn Chambers, Martin Chambers, John Davies

I don’t know how this event happened, or how cyclists became involved, as the itinerary produced by Union Sportive Argenteuillais, USA, doesn’t mention cycling. It seems like we were an add on, possibly something to do with John Davies. As I lived 20 miles away, I only saw anybody from the club at weekends. As i understand it this was a cultural exchange between Hastings and Argenteuil Paris. Everything paid for. There were teams of football, judo and I think athletics, plus us bikies. The coach picked me up in Rye, it was packed plus 5 bikes up the centre isle. The bikes were loaded onto the boat, hanging by their front wheels and craned into the hold. We had a smooth crossing, John Davies and his wife offered us cake, Lynn, Martin and myself had been warned about this, so didn’t partake. Those who did were quite happy and merry. John Davies and his wife had friends in Paris, so they went to visit them. We were put up by, CSM Puteux. M & Mme Segard, of that club and became our Director Sportives. We stayed in a sort of hotel, I think that it was a brothel, a lot of coming going all night, plain concrete staircase, made a lot of noise. In the bedroom there was a wash basin and Lynn And Martins first encounter with what they thought was a French foot bath (Bidet), they hadn’t seen one before, I had encountered Bidets in 1961 when I went and watched 3 stages of The Tour de France. As I was an electrician, the wiring shook me in the toilets, no door handle just a sliding bolt to close the door, only thing was, one wire went to the bolt and another wire to the fastening catch, slide the bolt and the light came on. It meant that the bolt and its fastening were very much LIVE.

A club rider took us to restaurants and cafes to get us feed and took us for rides about the area, the cafes were a bit crude, the toilets were holes in the floor with two footprints on where to place your feet. While we were riding around two things happened, one people would call out BAA BAA, it was Maurices beard, now there are a lot of bearded cyclists, then none. The other thing we kept getting, was there were a lot of mopeds about and as they passed, they would offer their back wheel to give us pace. Our club rider (I never found out his name) informed us that there was only one race that weekend and it was one of the selection races for the Tour de L’Avenir.

The race was in Puteux 80km, 4k lap, 20 laps. 1k up smooth tarmac, the finish would be at the top of this hill, with fast bends at the top with polished cobbles, 1k down rough cobbles at the bottom leading into a sharp narrow 90-degree bend and a very narrow-cobbled road, the rest was flat back to the start. At the signing on as in this country you hand over your licence, Maurice only had a CTC membership card, which he handed over, alongside the signing on official was a chap typing a stencil of the riders names, he printed out the start list of all the riders and was handing them out to the press and public. There were 115 riders, we were used to a maximum of 40. We were all called to the start in club and nation order, so when the race started we were near the front. The start was a rush up the hill and a mad rush down the hill to the narrow bend, it was so tight, the rider on my left lent on me, I lent on the rider to my right and round the bend we went, I never touched my brakes and of to the start of the next lap, after a few laps of this, I realised I was getting shoved back. So I put the pressure on up the hill to keep my place near the front. Maurice and Martin didn’t last long as they said the road was so rough it was shaking everything on their bikes loose, as to John tummy trouble so he said. Lynn dropped out about the time I crashed. On the fourteenth lap six riders made a gap, I went after them up the hill and on the fifteenth lap, over the top there was a bend, which I took much to fast, bang crash that was it, bent wheel when riders behind me rode over my back the wheel broken spokes and bent rim meant. End of race.

Now because we were racing, we missed our coach. M Segard our D.S. grabbed a motorcycle policeman, put me and my bike in his car. Police motorcycle up front, blue light flashing, M Sager car followed by Lynn, Martin and Maurice on their bikes took off, though red traffic lights, overtaking traffic to the Gare d Nore train station, bundling us onto the train, which left as we got on. On the trip to the port we passed our coach, and were able to wave to them. Meeting them to get on the boat together, our bikes were left behind in the rush. We got them back a week later.

Bob French


Documents

This is a list of documents held in the database. This does not include start and result sheets. These can be accessed via the results page or through the Clubs Page

Document
Type
Event Date

Club Dinner Menu 26 January 1963
Menu  (Index #: 1267)
Club Annual Dinner 26 January 1963 26/01/1963
Handbook 1996
Handbook  (Index #: 1455)
1/01/1996

Images

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Date      Caption      Event

John Davies (2:8:05) Club Open 50
Image #234

John Davies, Martin Chambers, Fred Martin, Lyn Chambers, Maurice Carpenter during racing trip to Paris
Image #36

Bob French, Lyn Chambers, Martin Chambers, John Davies and Monsieur and Madame Segard (who looked after the club) before the start of the 80Km race at Putout during the Paris Trip June 1962
Image #205

Paris Trip 1962 - Preparing for racing. Maurice Carpenter, Martin Chambers, Lyn Chambers, John Davies, Unknown, Mse and Mme Segard
Image #407

Paris Trip 1962 - The Team
Image #410

Weybridge Wheelers Road Race Chobham clump 1962 95 miles. Bob French (4th) John Davies, Unknown
Image #456


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