The First Seventy Years: 106 - Huddersfield Star Wheelers
Eric Biddulph joins a cycling club which produced champions.
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In the autumn of 1974, having established myself with a job and a house in Huddersfield, I joined Huddersfield Star Wheelers, a club with a reputation as a premier provider of top-class climbers. The club had, in Granville Sydney, delivered the national hill-climb champion on six occasions during the 1960s and early 1970s. In addition, hill-climb team champions on seven occasions.
Throughout the remainder of the 1970s and early 80s I was a regular attender on Sunday clubruns and involved in racing and training. I competed in many time trials ranging from 10 miles to 50 miles. I also rode some road races. I regularly cycled from home to my job at Calderdale College in Halifax, a round daily ride of 25 kilometres. This was to be a feature of my life on at least three days each week during term time until my retirement in 1995.
