Harold Limbrick joined the club in the early 1930s and was the club champion in 1935. He competed with varying degrees of success until he joined the Royal Marines at the start of the war, coming back to the club in 1947 when he combined his cycling with several business interests, Southgate Cycles, two or three small building firms and a motor scooter shop.
He was a big man and enjoyed his racing, although always saying never again and threatening to sell his bike to the first person to offer half a crown! He was not afraid of three wheels, as in 1954 he took the Oxford and back tricycle record with a time of 5hrs and 50 mins which still stands today.
Harold was Club President from 1951 to 1953 and vice president until 1961 when he ‘defected’ to the Severn Valley Cycle Racing Club. There is a result sheet of the 1965 T.G.Hall 25 where he recorded a time of 1hr 16mins 05secs. However he continued to support promising City riders with kit and lifts to races. He moved to Apperley when he retired and passed away in the 1980s after suffering with dementia.
In 1950 he gave a trophy to the club to be awarded to the fastest club rider over 25 miles in the calendar year.
Year | Winner | Time |
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2023 | Tim Butler | 52m 14s |
2022 | Dan Kelly | 52m 16s |
2021 | Matt Hill | 55m 33s |
2020 | Daryl Stroud | 59m 24s |
2019 | Carlo Toledo | 52m 55s |
2018 | Carlo Toledo | 52m 18s |
2017 | Oliver Dammone | 55m 06s |
2016 | Sean Townsend | 50m 19s |
2015 | Nigel Jones | 55m 31s |
2014 | Sean Townsend | 52m 47s |
2013 | Sean Townsend | 53m 1s |
2012 | Sean Townsend | 54m 5s |
2011 | Matt Godden | 52m 28s |
2010 | Matt Godden | 53m 31s |
2009 | Guy Preece | 54m 02s |
2008 | George Unsworth | 53m 58s |
2007 | Chris Vasey | 54m 39s |
2003 | Alister Scott | |
2002 | Alister Scott | |
2001 | Richard Clements | |
2000 | Simon Osborne | |
1998 | Andy Jarvis | |
1997 | Andrew Rolley | |
1996 | S Harradine | |
1995 | Richard Clements | |
1994 | Alister Scott | |
1993 | Steve Barnes | |
1992 | A. Rowley | |
1991 | Richard Prebble | |
1990 | Nick Yarworth | |
1989 | Nick Yarworth | |
1988 | Nick Yarworth | |
1987 | Gerry McGarr | |
1986 | Gerry McGarr | |
1984 | Nick Yarworth | 56m 17s |
1983 | K. Baker | |
1981 | Ted Tedaldi | |
1979 | C. Ransome | |
1978 | C. Ransome | 58m 12s |
1977 | C. Ransome | 59m 07s |
1972 | Phil Griffiths |