ICSlogo1

 

 

 

 

t-spacer 

ICS 1973-01

ICS7301-GPM

ICS7304-MSR

ICS7305-GW

ICS7301International Cycle Sport | January 1973 | Issue No 56

Turning Professional?? by Colin Lewis
World Cyclo-Cross Championships 1973 by Ray Richards
Tour of Ireland by T Campbell
Trophee Duchaussay by Peter Duker
Holdsworth Cyclo-Cross by David Saunders
New Look Tour - Milk Race 1973 by Richard Brock
Pickwick Bicycle Club by Colin Willcock
Echoes of the Past by Michael D Boyle
French Nocturne by Roger St Pierre
Gran Premio Mendrisio by Aurelio Gadenz
Cover - a scene from the 1972 Tour of Lombardy

Editorial [not attributed]
At the turn of the year we say good-bye to Ken Matthews and welcome Harry Jackson to the B.C.F. Racing Committee. Although Harry's election probably owed something to the free publicity he received, this does not prevent him from being a useful acquisition and we trust that his track experience will be reflected in progressive and rational policies.

One major change in 1973 road racing, brought about by a decision of the 1972 National Council, will be the alteration to Star Trophy and Peter Buckley Trophy regulations, to the effect that riders will no longer need to ride every event but will obtain points from a minimum number of events, as was the case in 1972 in the Golden Wheel.

Changes are announced, too, abroad, with the welcome decision to switch
Bordeaux-Paris back to May and to replace the Grand Prix des Nations as the final Classic by the far more spectacular Tour of Lombardy. Unfortunately the move to re-introduce Paris-Brussels has been delayed for a further year, but it is good to see the premier events taking priority again.

Nowhere is the mixture of conservatism and change better blended than in the Tour de France. The race profile for 1973 -detailed preview next month-includes several of the features popular in recent years such as a stage-finish at the Puy-de-Dome and a rest day at high altitude. It contains also the usual innovations, of which the most noteworthy is the institution of a stage-finish at Aspro-Gaillard, in other words outside the Aspro laboratories in the Savoy Alps: welcome reward for one of the Tour's oldest and most faithful sponsors. Would that all sponsors could receive some recognition of their efforts.

There will be few British riders in the 1973 Tour, which will again be ridden by trade teams. Although this is not what the public wants, it is so obviously fairer to team interests. How many readers recall a wonderful piece of aggressive riding by Arthur Metcalfe in one of the last British teams to ride the Tour?

Few riders have offered as much to the sport as Arthur: brilliant Milk Race winner, national champion and best all rounder in the same year, and Tour de France finisher; now a bike-builder and budding administrator, Arthur hopes to be riding again in 1973 as an amateur. To Arthur Metcalfe, as to Harry Jackson, we say "welcome", for both have a great deal still to offer.

ICS Magazine 1973 ICS 1973-01 P01 ICS 1973-01 P14 ICS 1973-01 P24 ICS 1973-04 P01 ICS 1973-04 P05 ICS 1973-05 P08 ICS 1973-05 P19 ICS 1973-05 P29 ICS 1973-10 P01 ICS 1973-10 P25

0901_GreenHostingx80

t-spacer

border_top150

LINKS

BLRC
Bordeaux-Paris
Front Pages
Cycling Books
Gone but not ...
ICS Magazine
ICS Magazine 1969
ICS Magazine 1970
ICS Magazine 1971
ICS Magazine 1972
ICS Magazine 1973
ICS 1973-01 P01
ICS 1973-01 P14
ICS 1973-01 P24
ICS 1973-04 P01
ICS 1973-04 P05
ICS 1973-05 P08
ICS 1973-05 P19
ICS 1973-05 P29
ICS 1973-10 P01
ICS 1973-10 P25
ICS Magazine 1974
ICS Magazine 1975
ICS Magazine 1976
ICS Magazine 1977
ICS Magazine 1978
ICS Magazine 1979
ICS Magazine 1980
ICS Magazine 1981
ICS Magazine 1982
ICS Magazine 1983
ICS Magazine 1984
Pre-war Magazines
Race Programmes
Remember When