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Dave Bedwell


Photo: courtesy Guy Dedieu
Name: Dave
Family name: Bedwell
Nationality: Great Britain
Gender:
Had: 70 years
Date of birth: 28-08-1928
Place of birth: Romford, Great Britain
Date of death:28-02-1999
Place of death:Kingskerwell, Great Britain
Professional: 1951-1962
1964
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Teams

  • 1951  Dayton (Unknown) 
  • 1952  Hercules Cycles (Great Britain) 
  • 1953  Hercules Cycles (Great Britain) 
  • 1954  Hercules Cycles (Great Britain) 
  • 1955  Hercules Cycles (Great Britain) 
  • 1956  Wearwell Cycles (Great Britain) 
  • 1956  Hercules Cycles (Great Britain) 
  • 1956  Meulenberg (Great Britain) 
  • 1957  O'Brien Cycles (Great Britain) 
  • 1958  O'Brien Cycles (Great Britain) 
  • 1959  Viking Cycles (Great Britain) 
  • 1959  O'Brian - Wilson (Great Britain) 
  • 1960  Viking Cycles (Great Britain) 
  • 1961  Viking Cycles (Great Britain) 
  • 1962  Dean Cycles (Great Britain) 
  • 1963  Independant (Unknown) 
  • 1964  O'Brien-Bates (Great Britain) 
  • 1964  Independant (Unknown) 

Memo(s)

Details
Our group, comprising Dave
Bedwell, Tony Phillips, Roy Coxon, Brian Robinson, and myself belonged
initially to the Romford Wheelers and we became very frustrated with the
restrictions put on us by the N.C.U. so we all decided to form our own club
and affiliate under the British League Of Racing Cyclists(B.L.R.C.) this
would be about 1949/50. This caused quite a problem in the Romford Wheelers
as Tony Phillips father was President of that club and we comprised the
racing section.

Dave was listed in publications as a cycle mechanic but I don't think he
ever practiced at that as he would ride all day and we would meet him in the
evening at a cafe called the Green Tiles where he would be eating his
"training food" of steak and meringues,we would then go for a training ride.
As you know Dave was not very tall and as his frame top tube and down tube
met at the head tube the frame was still a little large, so to compensate he
would take his crank set and cut the crank arms in two and re-weld them to 6
1/8 long (156 mm ) Also he had a form made up so that he could take a B.17
narrow saddle and reshape narrower still, he did all our groups saddles like this.

Dave had a brother named Charlie who was much taller than he and was a
cyclist also,they both lived at home with their parents in Romford, the
whole house was given over to cycling as his parents rode also,they had made
the rear downstairs room into a weight room and Dave had built a leg press
in there. Before I went into the R.A.F. we were pressing 400 pounds after I
came out they told me that they were up to 1000 pounds.

In 1950 Dave won the "Grand Prix de l'Humanite in France a communist
sponsored event. In that same year he was doing under the hour for a 25 mile
time trial when George Fell held the record at 59 minutes something in the
N.C.U.
Jack Julian

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Results

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1949    1º in National Championship, Road, Amateurs, Great Britain (GBR) 
1950    1º in GP de l'Humanité (FRA) 
1951    1º in Dover - London (GBR) 
1951    1º in National Championship, Road, Elite, Great Britain (GBR) 
1951    1º in Severn Valley (GBR) 
1951    1º in Wolverhampton (GBR) 
1951    5º in Stage 1 Tour of Britain, Brighton (GBR) 
1951    1º in Stage 2 Tour of Britain, Bournemouth (GBR) 
1951    3º in Stage 3 Tour of Britain, Plymouth (GBR) 
1951    1º in Stage 4 Tour of Britain, Weston-S-Mare (GBR) 
1951    7º in Stage 5 Tour of Britain, Wolverhampton (GBR) 
1951    6º in Stage 6 Tour of Britain, Morecambe (GBR) 
1951    1º in Stage 8 Tour of Britain, Newcastle (GBR) 
1951    1º in Stage 9 Tour of Britain, Scarborough (GBR) 
1952    2º in Stage 2 Tour de Picardie, Beauvais (FRA) 
1953    2º in Stage 3 Tour of Britain, Leeds (GBR) 
1953    1º in Stage 5 Tour of Britain, Newcastle (GBR) 
1953    1º in Stage 7 Tour of Britain, Morecambe (GBR) 
1953    1º in Stage 9 Tour of Britain, Cheltenham (GBR) 
1953    2º in Stage 12 Tour of Britain, London (GBR) 
1953    3º in Dover - London (GBR) 
1953    1º in Stage 1 Tour du Calvados, Falaise (FRA) 
1954    3º in General Classification Tour du Calvados (FRA) 
1954    3º in Charlie Fox Memorial (GBR) 
1954    1º in London - Battle - London (GBR) 
1954    1º in Tour of the Peak (GBR) 
1954    1º in Stage 4 Tour of Britain, Whitley Bay (GBR) 
1954    3º in Stage 7 Tour of Britain, Prestetyn (GBR) 
1954    2º in Stage 8 Tour of Britain, Llandudno (GBR) 
1954    1º in Stage 9 Tour of Britain, Wolverhampton (GBR) 
1954    1º in Stage 10 Tour of Britain, Weston-S-Mare (GBR) 
1954    1º in Stage 13 Tour of Britain, London (GBR) 
1954    3º in General Classification Tour of Britain (GBR) 
1955    2º in Frejus (FRA) 
1955    1º in South Elmsall (GBR) 
1955    3º in Toulon (FRA) 
1956    3º in Denderleeuw (BEL) 
1957    2º in Lincoln International GP (GBR) 
1958    1º in Stage 3 Bournemouth (GBR) 
1958    1º in Dover - London (GBR) 
1958    1º in Havering (GBR) 
1958    2º in Lincoln International GP (GBR) 
1958    1º in Ovaltine Grand Prix (GBR) 
1958    4º in Stage 5 part b Milk Race, Morecambe (GBR) 
1958    1º in Stage 6 Milk Race, Llandudno (GBR) 
1958    5º in Stage 9 Milk Race, Ilfracombe (GBR) 
1958    1º in Stage 10 Milk Race, Plymouth (GBR) 
1958    10º in General Classification Milk Race, Thames Ditton (London) (GBR) 
1959    1º in Avenue (GBR) 
1959    1º in Croydon (GBR) 
1959    3º in Stage 9 Závod Míru, Ostrava 
1959    3º in Stage 12 part b Závod Míru, Lods 
1960    3º in Figeac (FRA) 
1960    1º in Tour of the Cotswolds (GBR) 
1960    1º in Tour of the Peak (GBR) 
1961    3º in Lincoln International GP (GBR) 
1961    1º in National Championship, Road, Elite, Great Britain (GBR) 
1961    1º in Tour of the Peak (GBR) 
1962    1º in Chequers Grand Prix (GBR) 
1962    1º in Criterium des Vainquers (GBR) 
1962    2º in National Championship, Road, Elite, Great Britain (GBR) 
1962    1º in Slough (GBR) 
1963    2º in London - Holyhead (GBR) 
1964    1º in Enell (GBR) 
1964    2º in Mackeson (GBR) 
1964    1º in Nomads Grand Prix (GBR) 
1964    1º in Tour of Belvoir (GBR) 
1964    1º in Stage 4 Tour of the South West (GBR) 
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Stats

Victories in the database: 40
Road – Criterium: 5
Road – Stage: 16
Road – National Championship: 3
Road - Race: 16

Victories by team/year:

1951: 8 victories
1952: 0 victories
1953: 4 victories
1954: 6 victories
1955: 1 victory
1956: 0 victories
1957: 0 victories
1958: 6 victories
1959: 2 victories
1960: 2 victories
1961: 2 victories
1962: 3 victories
1963: 0 victories
1964: 4 victories

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Photo: Courtesy Guy Dedieu
 
Photo: Courtesy Guy Dedieu
 
Photo: Courtesy Guy Dedieu
 
Photo: Courtesy Tony Haigh
 
Photo: Courtesy Guy Dedieu
 
Photo: Courtesy Guy Dedieu




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