Even though so much of sport is soon forgotten, there are a small band people out there who collect and restore. They work at preserving something to serve has both a record of the past - and a resource for future generations.
In cycle sport there has been a steady growth in interest historic events - and the importance of preserving not just records but also memorabilia while this still possible.
Here I have collected together some links to interesting web sites - and added some original material of my own; especially for aspects of cycle sport that I could not find when searching for myself!

One such group of collectors and restorers meet for the Bygone Bykes Club’s annual classic bike display, ride and auction in Bradford, West Yorkshire more...

I guess that you all know about Tom Simpson’s memorials and the small museum at Harworth, the museum in the home of Fausto Coppi and the Tour of Flanders centre in Belgium [links below]. But I am still surprised when I find that major events, and venues, go unreported on t’internet. Worse still .. finding that there is an entry but the content is factually wrong.

So first up in my gap-filling journey is Camperdown Velodrome in Sydney, Australia with photos from my visits around 1971.

And following the theme of former track racing venues -there is a page about Saffron Lane Leicester; venue for the World Championships in 1970. And I have even found my old negatives of Legrams Lane Stadium, Bradford so know that it did once exist ....  Also there were other tracks in Yorkshire but what happenned to them?

But no one has found a suitable replacement for Essex’s Harlow Velodrome despite 15 years of “effort”!

And back with the Tom Simpson connection there is an attempt to make sense of the many variations of that iconic black and white Peugeot racing jerseys with their checkerboard band. A design that seems to keep reappearing.

The Huddersfield 2-Day road race in 1963 stretched the legs of many well-known British riders - a sort of Tour of Flanders but with real hills!

But grandest folly of 20th century British cycling must be - not those annual 12 and 24 hour time trials but - the London to Holyhead road race ...

Meanwhile some of my old snaps at the finish of the London to York road race prompted an attempt to trace down some facts.