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George Pilkington Mills
George Pilkington Mills (born 1867,〔The Bicycle, UK, 8 March 1950, p5〕 died London, 8 November 1945〔http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/G._P._Mills〕) was the dominant English racing cyclist of his generation, and winner of the inaugural Bordeaux–Paris cycle race. He frequently rode from Land's End to John o' Groats, holding the world record time on six occasions between 1886 and 1895. He was a member of the Anfield and North Road cycling clubs. He later won races and broke records as a car racer and motorcycle rider.〔
==Land's End-John o'Groats==
The record from one end of Britain to the other is the longest place-to-place challenge recognised by the Road Records Association. Riders choose their own route but the distance then, before ferries shortened it, was about 900 miles. The first record was set by J. Lennox, first name not known, who took six days and 16 hours in 1885 while being paced by tandems. The following year, Mills, who was 18, broke the record twice, once on a large-wheeled penny-farthing bicycle and once on a tricycle. He rode the bicycle in five days, 1 hour 45 minutes,〔The Bicycle, UK, 8 March 1950, p5〕 the tricycle in 5 days 10 hours, an improvement of hours.〔The Bicycle, UK, 8 March 1950, p5〕 The record, on a penny-farthing, still stands.〔Journal, Fellowship of Cycling Old-Timers, vol 167, p29〕 Mills was helped by other members of the Anfield Bicycle Club, who organised accommodation and food, and enrolled other cyclists to guide him.〔The early years of the Anfield Bicycle Club,www.anfieldbc.co.uk/history.html〕
The journalist and official Frederick Thomas Bidlake said:
:The sensation was not that he was merely one of a sequence of record breakers, but that he knocked more than a day off each of the previous bests, in a sort of double event, riding virtually without sleep, certainly no more than a wayside nod.〔Woodland, Les (2005), This Island Race, Mousehold Press (UK) p33〕
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