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Bernard that's a good point and if you read this excerpt from a piece I wrote for internet some years ago I'm sure you will find an answer to your question. What could be more typically Belgian than ‘frieten’ (French fried potatoes)? I can remember an article in an English cycling magazine some...

My mom's 'thingy' for cutting crinkle cut chips. I think that it was old in the 1960's when she picked it up at a jumble sale. I moved to Belgium, the Belgians invented chips but they'd never seen crinkle cut chips before, and on a visit to Brum I took it back home with me. Now my daughter was...

Don't worry Fred there were thousands of other cyclists like you that couldn't keep up. lol

[Graham, With our newer cycling champs it looks like they do a bit of muscle tainning in the gym it wasn't that way in your day that i remember.] Well Fred it might surprise you to know that we did spend time in the gym but no one developed muscles anything like those riders of today; I wonder...

Thanks Jenny & Fred. Fred isn't it amazing that my bike is still around after all these years! I bought it at Tommy Godwin's shop at Kings Heath in 1963 and used it for the Olympic trials at Welwyn Garden City to get into the 1964 British track team; I was on the Olympic short list. During...

Sparkhill Boy, there is a thread on Richards shop, not much on there but here is the link; https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=22222&highlight=Richards+radio+shop Graham.

Lyn, I don't know, when you started this thread, if you knew that there was a thread on Ladypool Road? Maybe they can be merged? https://forum.birminghamhistory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=12053&highlight=Ladypool+road And Lyn I think that this photo has been on the forum in the past, well that's...

Here is my whole 'Hall of Fame' award; I couldn't get it all under my scanner in post # 223. To me it's worth more than all the stars on Broad Street! Graham.

Lyn, I'm sure that my step brother-in-law's shop is in that photo. I think that it's my old street, Leamington Road, is in the background, Here is a photo of Ladypool Road that I made during my visit to Brum for the '60's night', Nov 2008. And one of the corner Leamington and Ladypool Road in 2008.

Lyn, sorry to hear about that and thanks for keeping us posted, Graham.

Thanks again Jim and Trev, you're such great fans! BTW my 1966 1 hour record was done at that time on an ordinary track bike, cost £30, on a very bumpy and wind swept Salford Park track, the international UCI rules wouldn't allow any other type of bike. But through the years the rules got bent...

Thank you all for your well wishes. I took my wife into the emergency room at the University Hospital in Ghent on the Monday and she was discharged on the Thursday without a diagnosis being made! Seems to be one of those mystery things probably caused by a virus that they can't put their finger...

As a kid in the 1950's my big passion was aircraft and my N° 1 ambition was to be a pilot in the RAF. At the age of 13 I joined the ATC (Air Training Corps), 492 Squadron based at Hall Green and a year later I was given a 3 day scrutiny at RAF Halton where I was found suitable to start in the...

Dennis Road put paid to most things, but despite that I lived my dreams.

Thanks for the tip but I'll just have to wait until BBC 1 or 2 repeat it as we don't get BBC 4 here in the Flanders.:(

Pom you've given me the best laugh of the day; good on ya! :D Jean I sure would wear it as I think the text is a good description of how I see myself! :coolcheesy: (No comments please or they’ll lock it again):D

Bernie, and a 'T' shirt to pin the badge on to?:D

Thanks again Pom & Tom, I know that you're all great fans but I didn't expect a reply, just posted my latest news and photos to keep everyone up-to-date. My wife, Marie-Rose, had a thousand tests but wasn't diagnosed in the General hospital Ghent, so they discharged her without really being...

Another photo of me and my 1966 Salford Park one hour record track bike by Tommy Godwin, with original orange plastic saddle. This photo was taken at British Cycling's Gala Dinner by Ronny Couliez and was part of the evenings history display. The black & white photo was taken during my record...

Now even some news on a Belgian web site about this Brummie. https://www.belgiancyclingselection.be:80/