ESCA 2 UP Team Time Trial 1960 Plus Road Race This piece of film will be mainly of interest to grey haired racing cyclists from the 1960’s. John and Dave Ashdown are featured in the first race, with Richard Wall doing a cameo appearance after a face plant. Bob French and Lynn Chambers of the … Continue reading Cycle Racing in East Sussex 1960
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Dave Ashdown runs through this selection from the Rye’s Own archive, linking individual reports and recollections into a broader picture of local life. The trail includes “Exciting Times for the Wheelers”, “Rye Wheelers 2005 and Earlier”, “Rye’s Own Editorial – December 2006”, and “The Sprocket Page March 2003”, offering several ways into the subject rather than a single potted account. The result is less a formal history than a lively bundle of evidence, voices and remembered moments from the magazine’s pages.
The Ashdowns of New Romney
There was a time, way back before the Second World War, that the cycling Ashdown family of New Romney, were fierce rivals with members of the Rye Wheelers at grass track events around the area.
Rye’s Own Editorial – December 2006
Editorial December 2006 Christmas is upon us again. The old saying that time goes faster as you get older seems to be right. In the uncertain world we live in it sometimes seems a blessing to be getting old. A wise old Ryer once said, as far back as 1965, that he had lived the … Continue reading Rye’s Own Editorial – December 2006
Rye Wheelers 2005 and Earlier
The “Sprocket” Page Adventures of the Rye & District Wheelers Past and Present May has been another great month for the Rye & District Wheelers. There were no less than ten Rye riders entered for the first Tenterden “10”, this despite losing ever present Kevin Hall to an ankle operation that will put him out … Continue reading Rye Wheelers 2005 and Earlier
Exciting Times for the Wheelers
Wheelers in the News The Rye & District Wheelers have been in the news quite a lot recently. Their Marathon Charity Roller Ride for ARRCC got publicity in the Rye Observer and an
The Sprocket Page
The Adventures of the Rye & District Wheelers Past and Present Looking Back The Racing Ashdowns John and Dave Ashdown joined the Rye Wheelers in 1957. … Continue reading The Sprocket Page
The Sprocket Page March 2003
News and Adventures of the Rye & District Wheelers Past and Present Well Attended A.G.M. The Annual General Meeting held at the Riverhaven Hotel on Thursday 13 February was attended by more than half of the membership.
Margaret Apps Then & Now
From the June 2002 issue of “Rye’s Own” Looking back through the old Rye’s Own photo files we discovered many local girls from the ‘Swinging Sixties’. Rye’s Own claimed that Rye girls were better looking than those from any other part of the country. Margaret Apps worked at