Over at Phil Varner's blog, scans of Cycling Weekly's reportage of the 1967 Track World Champs at Amsterdam.
Ron Baensch, disqualified at these champs for doping, was a consistent medallist in the sprints during the early sixties, and was to go onto greater notoriety for punching a commisaire at the 1970 World Champs at Leicester , England.
The report on Sercu's victory in the Pro sprint suggests that ₤250 was the going rate to buy a World Championships.
From Youtube, a couple of English film clips from the fifties, showing a CTC outing by train.
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