Frank Shorland & F.T. Bidlake
Frank Shorland was a record holder in the
early 1890s, setting the twelve hour record on three occasions,
the twenty-four hour record twice. He held, in addition, three
separate point-to-point route records, and was, with Monty Holbein,
a record holder on the tandem trike at the twenty-four hour distance.
(Curious this, as Shorland was considered to be Holbein's greatest
rival.) Frederick Thomas Bidlake, though remembered principally
as an administrator and a founding member of the Roads Records
Association, was himself no cycling slouch. He established 11
RRA records between 1889 and 1894, nine on the tricycle and two
on the tandem trike. Ironically for someone whose name is associated
with unpaced cycling, all his road records were paced. More information
on Bidlake's memorial web site: http://www.bidlakememorial.org.uk/ |