Milk Race and other thoughts.

Ebay has a Raleigh Milk Race bike up right now, at least Dawes also made a souvenirish Milk Race bike as well.The Raleigh is just high-ten, maybe the calibre of a Record as they also did in some other racing endeavours.

Milk Race Bike: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RALEIGH-RACING-CYCLE-RARE-MILK-RACE-SPECIAL-CLASSIC-80S-BICYCLE-ORIGINAL-VGC-/191962162033?hash=item2cb1d62371:g:eIEAAOSwFe5Xy-UC

Full set of decals: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raleigh-Milk-Race-Bicycle-Decal-Set-/311613593015?hash=item488d9e15b7:g:lzkAAOSwiYFXLQoS

Jerseys, Programmes, all available.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_of_Britain

www.themilkrace.com/

Per the wikipedia article, it was an amatuer race until about 1985.

Tony Doyle placed in it in one year, see his record here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Doyle_(cyclist)

Must have been a blast, maybe he did it on a Viscount or others rode Viscounts in 1976? The page is a bit jumbled up in that one area so it is not totally clear.

The Milk Race was a big deal, I've even seen a board game for the event.

Article on a Cycling photographer and below is one of his pictures of the Milk Race.

www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/ron-good-life-behind-camera-147551  (with other pictures folks would probably like)