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Dick Poole (cyclist)
Richard William Ewart Poole was the first man to cycle from Land's End to John o'Groats, the length of mainland Britain, in less than two days. He then beat the 1,000-mile record... only to find he was a few yards too short.
==Background==
Dick Poole was a talented time-triallist—a competitor against the clock over fixed distances—living in west London. He was a member of Middlesex Road Club. A meeting with another enthusiast, a model-maker and weekend cycling journalist called Bernard Thompson, led to a plan in 1965 to try for the longest place-to-place record in Britain: Land's End to John o'Groats.
Cyclists had been trying the ride since at least July 1880, when H Blackwell and C A Harman of the Canonbury Bicycle Club rode from Cornwall to Caithness in 13 days.〔Hilton, Tim (2004), One More Kilometre and We're in the Showers, Harper Collins, UK〕〔http://www.kamrad.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=486&sid=3634b3aea2722f8d10d25349ac1fd9e8〕 The first formal attempt was by George Pilkington Mills, who rode a penny-farthing with a 52-inch wheel for 5d 1h 45m in July 1886, when he was 19.〔The record, for a machine of the type, still stands; shortly afterwards cyclists switched to chain-driven machines with smaller wheels.〕 The Road Records Association formed two years later to formalise attempts. It ruled that riders were free to take whatever route they preferred provided they covered the distance. That proved critical in Poole's ride and in the challenge that ended his record.
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