repeated this win 2 years later on 20 June 1982; this time with Joe Cooke, Andy Leadbetter
and Dave Smithers. All four riders received YCF medals.
Yorkshire Cycling Federation Team BAR 1981
In 1981 Alan Wray, Jeff Hardy and Dave Smithers won the YCF's Yorkshire BAR Team Prize
(over 4 distances 25, 50, 100 & 12hr.)
1961
wa a good year for Alan Malone who broke the course
record for the Sheffield Phoenix 25 mile TT with 58.14 beating
the record of 58.40 set four years earlier by Tom Simpson
ridng for Scala Wheelers before he moved to Belgium.
The Sheffield Phoenix event, which has run unbroken
continuously since 1927 has a winners list which reads
like a who'se who of Cycling.
Other winners include 1930's legend H (Shake) Earnshaw
of Monckton Wheeler's, Tour De France rider Brian Haskell,
National Champion Bernard Breedon from Askern, and 25 TT
Competition Reord Holder Dave Dungworth and current TT
and Audax star Gethin Butler.
1991 winner is Mike McNamara who was famously offered
a sweet by Beryl Burton when she caught him in the National
12 hour TT championships - Mike won the men's race.
Also included are all the winners from clubs in Wakefield Met
apart from Alan Malone and Shake Earnshaw.
| 1937 | H Earnshaw | Monckton CC | 1.1.46 | |
| 1943 | Eddy Larkin | Hemsworth Whs | 1.3.48 | |
| 1946 | Jack Simpson | Hemsworth Whs | 1.3.30 | |
| 1949 | A Palmer | South Elmsall SCC | 1.2.07 | |
| 1950 | Brian Haskell | Holme Valley Whs | 1.2.06 | |
| 1957 | Tom Simpson | Scala Whs | 58.4 | Record |
| 1961 | Alan Malone | Calder Clarion | 58.14 | Record |
| 1963 | Bernard Breedon | Rockingham CC | 57.06 | Record |
| 1967 | Dave Dungworth | Rutland CC | 56.1 | Record |
| 1991 | Mike McNamara | Rockingham CC | 54.19 | |
| 2000 | J Ramsbottom | Pete Read Racing | 50.39 | Record |
| 2005 | Gethin Butler | Preston Wheelers | 51.13 |
