Cycling 13 August, 1966

Burton breaks records as Barbara Castle threatens cyclists’ rights

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Beryl Burton winning time trials and breaking records was a fairly common news story in the 1960s, and so this issue led with her taking the National 100- mile time trial in a new record time of four hours, eight minutes and 22 seconds. This was almost 19 minutes clear of second-placed June Pitchford.

Bernard Thompson – a writer who covered the British scene for many years – seemed delighted to report that Burton’s time was quicker than the winning time in the men’s ‘100’, run two weeks earlier.