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Cycling Time Trials: Encyclopedia II - Cycling Time Trials - Early history

Since 1890, the National Cyclists' Union (an association established to organise and regulate bicycle racing) had banned all cycle racing on public roads. However, there were riders who wanted to race on the road, and Frederick Thomas Bidlake came up with the idea of promoting time trials. As riders would be racing against the clock, not against other competitors in a large group, they would, he argued, be less likely to attract attention; advance event publicity was prohibited, and riders were initially obliged to wear 'inconspicuous clothi ...

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Cycling Time Trials, Cycling Time Trials - Early history, Cycling Time Trials - Recent history

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Cycling Time Trials: Encyclopedia II - Frederick Thomas Bidlake - Cycling administrator

As an administrator, Bidlake helped found the Road Records Association and the Road Racing Council (forerunner of today's Cycling Time Trials, the organisation which regulates time trial competition in the UK), and served as a vice-president of the Cyclists' Touring Club (alongside president George Herbert Stancer). He was also a notable time-keeper, timing many time trials and place-to-place record attempts over a 40-year period. He also served as a timekeeper for the Royal Aero ...

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Frederick Thomas Bidlake, Frederick Thomas Bidlake - Racing cyclist, Frederick Thomas Bidlake - Cycling administrator, Frederick Thomas Bidlake - Memorial, Frederick Thomas Bidlake - External link

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Cycling Time Trials: Encyclopedia II - Individual time trial - Professional time trialling

At the professional level, time trials (TTs) are frequently accompanied by motorcycles, some carrying video equipment or race officials, and riders may be followed by a team car carrying coaches and spare parts, but the cyclists are not permitted to draft behind the vehicles. Race regulations typically dictate a minimum distance behind the cyclist which the car must maintain and a minimum gap th ...

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Individual time trial, Individual time trial - Events by terrain, Individual time trial - Professional time trialling, Individual time trial - Performance and tactics, Individual time trial - UK time trial competition

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Cycling Time Trials: Encyclopedia II - Frederick Thomas Bidlake - Memorial

By this time, a testimonial fund had already been established and became a memorial fund. A memorial garden and monument, at Girtford Bridge near Sandy in Bedfordshire, was unveiled on 23 September 1934, and the balance of the fund was used to create an annual award – the Bidlake Memorial Prize - for the most outstanding performance or contribution to the betterment of cycling in any sphere. However, several major British achievements during the 1950s were not marked by the Bidlake Award committee, primarily because they involved ri ...

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Frederick Thomas Bidlake, Frederick Thomas Bidlake - Racing cyclist, Frederick Thomas Bidlake - Cycling administrator, Frederick Thomas Bidlake - Memorial, Frederick Thomas Bidlake - External link

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Cycling Time Trials: Encyclopedia II - Individual time trial - UK time trial competition

The first UK individual time trial on public roads is reputed to have been held on 5 October 1895 over a 50-miles course just north of London, organised by Frederick Thomas Bidlake. For many years in the UK, time trials were the main road-based cycling competitions ('massed start' road racing only gained grudging approval after the Second World War), and remain popular today. Organised by Cycling Time Trials (formerly the Roa ...

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Individual time trial, Individual time trial - Events by terrain, Individual time trial - Professional time trialling, Individual time trial - Performance and tactics, Individual time trial - UK time trial competition

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Cycling Time Trials: Encyclopedia II - Individual time trial - Performance and tactics

If a racer catches up to a competitor, the overtaken rider is required to fall back to a specified distance (about 50 metres) behind the other so that he receives no aerodynamic shelter or help from the other. To do well in an ITT, a cyclist must maintain a steady power output for long periods maintain a controlled heart rate for long periods have a smooth, regular pedalling technique position himself to be extremely aerodynamic discipline himself to operate just below the anaerobic threshold until near the end of th ...

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Individual time trial, Individual time trial - Events by terrain, Individual time trial - Professional time trialling, Individual time trial - Performance and tactics, Individual time trial - UK time trial competition

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