HETCHINS (PLUS) TRACK BIKE

A fine bike on which to launch a track career

- Simon Fellows

This is the Hetchins bike that carried Alan Johnson, 1970s track and hill-climbing great, to an early win in the 1967 National School Boy Sprint Championship. At the time, Alan was a member of Polytechnic CC, hence the distinctive red, white and blue colours of the club. Shortly afterwards, the frame was sold to Joe Marsh for his son Dave, now of the Universal Cycle Centre, Rotherham, to race throughout the Sixties and Seventies. It was then passed on to Dave's younger siblings, Sally and Stephen, who su