Won the British Best All Rounder Competition
By gaining this most prized honour at the age of 18 he set up an all-time record, being easily the youngest ever to win the contest since its inception in 1930.
His success was the crowning achievement to a season in which Yorkshire riders gained twenty major honours; it gained for the county a primacy in the BBAR competition which it had not enjoyed for 25 years.
He attained this pinnacle in British cycling, previously occupied by only two other Yorkshiremen – Cyril Heppleston (1937) and Shake Earnshaw (1938) – within eighteen months of riding his first time-trial, an extraordinary achievement quite without precedent.
2nd February 1964