After winning the YCF (middlemarkers)
50 on V153 on the 7 Sept 1980 (right),
Calder 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 Calder's 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 |
