Veteran-Cycle Club video archive - Bath Road 100 1956

Ray Booty breaking four hours in a 100-mile time trial for the first time. His time was 3hr. 58min. 28secs. and he rode an 84-inch fixed gear. Visit the V-CC here: www.v-cc.org.uk...

[@gregtaylor6146]

100 Miles - Open Road - Fixed Gear - In the Rain! ........ These really are Supermen, Fabulous upload, Thank you.

[@kenworkman3964]

Placed 7th that day was Jim Ogden who led the Midland Clarion to the team prize.
Sadly, Jim died recently aged 94 in May 2024 after many years with the Altrincham Ravens CC. Jim also gave lots of service to the sport of cycling where he was the chairman of his local branch of the Veterans Time Trial Association for 45 years, plus the organisation's national president for four years. I only knew Jim for around 10 years but I regarded him as a gentleman who always had time to talk about cycling. R.I.P. Jim

[@auguritutto]

Today 04/03/2018 sadly ROGER BANISTER who ran the first ever under 4 minutes mile died. Heaps of very worthwhile commentary about his sad death but not a single commentator compared Banister's achievement with RAY BOOTY'S under 4 hours 100 mile time trial achievement.. Kindest wishes to both of these remarkable men. '

[@gyp3xp48]

Quite right sir. But that is selective news.

[@racefaceec90]

i wish i had anything like their fitness/speed on a bicycle (in my defence i'm 47 but slow on a bike). fair play to ray breaking the 4 hour barrier especially riding a fixed gear bike 👍

[@briancox3691]

Thank you so much for posting this. I was riding at that time and recognise several faces and riders (Arch Harding for example). Such wonderful memories.

[@MICHAELPEEL100]

I met Ray Booty in the late 1950's when we were both doing National Service in REME at Arborfield in Berkshire and shared a billet with him. A year or two before I'd been a founder member of Doncaster Central RRC, a BLRC club formed by a group of us who were engineering apprentices and attended college one day a week and as we were cyclists decided to form a cycling club and we were quite successful in road races and touring. Ray had a car and once or twice gave me a lift so far home on a weekend - I lived in Doncaster and he lived in Nottingham. He once told me he was riding in the "Tour of Scotland" and asked if I wanted to ride with him - I told him I wasn't that class!