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Reggie McNamara (born Grenfell, New South Wales, Australia, 1887,〔(Canberra Bike Museum, Profile of Reggie McNamarra )〕 died Belleville, New Jersey, United States, October, 1970〔(US Biking - Hall of Fame - Inductees 2004 - Reggie McNamarra )〕 or 1971〔〔(Bike Race Info - Rider Histories - Reggie McNamarra )〕 or 1972〔Chany, Pierre (1988) La Fabuleuse Histoire du Cyclisme, Nathan, France, p327〕) was an Australian cyclist known as a roughhouse velodrome rider with a string of dramatic crashes and broken bones over 20 years.〔 He was known as the Iron Man. He specialised in six-day races but rode races from 200m sprints to 100 km endurance races. He rode 3,000 races on three continents over 30 years and won more than 700 before he retired aged 50 in 1937.〔〔The Bicycle, UK, 25 December 1946, p14〕 ==Background== Reggie McNamara grew up in the Australian countryside, the son of a sheep rancher. A snake bit him on a finger when he was 12 and hunting rabbits with his brother. He and his brother chopped off the finger with an axe.〔〔〔Chany, Pierre (1988) La Fabuleuse Histoire du Cyclisme, Nathan, France, p326〕 He and his 13 brothers and sisters learned to ride on the same bicycle. He began racing for money in local fairs around Sydney,〔 shooting kangaroos and selling their skins to raise the entry fee.〔 Some reports say he was 14,〔 others 16.〔 He won his first race, over a mile and a half on a dirt track,〔 and travelled across Australia and New Zealand to wherever he could find races. He won the Sydney six-day race at the start of 1913 and caught the eye of Alf Goullet, an Australian international who had been asked to find two good Australians to race in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Goullet signed just McNamara, telling the historian Peter Nye that McNamara was worth any two other riders.〔"I signed up Mac. I figured he was enough", cited (Bike Race Histories - Reggie McNamarra )〕
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