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Early days
Starting out in cycling and later racing with the Leeds Mercury.
mostly late 80s View all
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Bonnyrigg C.C.
Living in Edinburgh and riding & racing with the Bonnyrigg.
early 90s View all
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National Championship 1994
BCF national amateur RR championship in North East Derbyshire.
3rd July 1994 View all
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Ruban Granitier Breton 1995
7 day (9 stage) international stage race in Brittany, France.
25 avril - 1er mai 1995 View all
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FBD Milk Rás 1995
Rás Tailteann, 9 day (11 stage) international stage race.
20th - 28th May 1995 View all
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Ilkley C.C.
Riding & racing with the Ilkley C.C. in Wharfedale, Yorkshire.
2011 to present View all
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Tour of the Lammermuirs
A Scottish end of season classic.
28th September 2014 View all
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Raid Pyrenean
From Atlantic to Mediterranean across the Pyrenees in 100 hours
11-15th June 2018 View all
Kingcycle Maximal Test
Popped at 455W after 10 mins of torture :-)
heart rate got to 188 bpm
Starting at 220 Watts, ramping up at 25 W/min.
See detailsStage winner in 1992 Tour de France,
Won GP of Rennes & Travers le Morbihan (x2)
Peter De Clercq
Lotto
Double TdF stage winner plus 8 classics
including Tour of Flanders & Liège–Bastogne–Liège
and multiple World cyclo-cross titles!
Adri van der Poel
Collstrop
German national champion &
winner of the Bayern-Rundfahrt
Rolf Aldag
Team Telekom
Winner of a Vuelta & 4 TdF stages,
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne & the Classic Haribo
Jaan Kirsipuu
Chazal-MBK
Winner of 5 Giro, 3 Vuelta & 3 TdF stages,
and the 1994 Midi Libre
Ján Svorada
Lampre–Panaria
Tour de France stage winner, Danish Champion,
Winner of La Flèche Wallonne
Bo Hamburger
TVM Bison Kit
Tour de France stage winner, Liedekerkse Pijl,
Winner of Tour Méditerranéen
Jan Nevens
Vlaanderen 2002
Winner of Tour of Flanders (x2), Paris-Roubaix,
E3 Prijs Vlaanderen, Het Volk (x3), Scheldeprijs
Peter van Petegem
Trident-Schick
I couldn’t sprint for toffee and did better in longer races if they became a grind. The slower the race average speed, the better I’d generally do! I’d typically get top 10 in Scottish Grand Prix races and the SCU National Championships and twice got in the SCU squad for foreign stage races. I was doing some BCF Premier Calendar (previously Star Trophy) events from 1993, which was when the home pros joined the series. I was never able to be competitive at that level, but could usually get round mid-pack, making the top 40 from about 100 starters in the BCF National Championships
Tour of the Cotswolds, the Girvan, Tour of the Kingdom, Tom Simpson Memorial, Tour of the Peak were all fantastic events and I could never quite believe that I was racing against these guys that I’d been reading about week in, week out, who’d be regularly pictured in “the comic”. A big highlight for me was definitely racing the TV crit.s with the pros, with races in Aberdeen and Glasgow on a couple of occasions. Even though I was just hanging on and making up the numbers, just being a small part of that scene was mind-blowing for me, and the race atmosphere was fantastic. Great times.
Mike Firth - Results
