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his own machine.
    Burrows has also produced a folding bike, the Giant Halfway, which uses his trademark one-piece forks to make the bike flatter when it is folded, and a super-thin bike, the 2D, that is intended to be stored in a narrow hallway. He stopped working for Giant in 2001.
    Burrows now builds his own recumbent bikes such as the Ratracer, and also makes a freight bike for courier companies: the 8Freight has an eight-foot wheelbase and thin profile so that it can be ridden down bike lanes. He has raced successfully on the Windcheetah, twice winning the European Human Powered Vehicle championships.
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    (TO READ ABOUT ANOTHER BIKE DESIGNER WHO BROKE THE MOLD, SEE SIR ALEX MOULTON ; TO READ ABOUT ANOTHER RECUMBENT FAN, SEE RICHARD BALLANTINE )
    BURTON, Beryl
    Born: Halton, England, May 12, 1937
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    Died: Yorkshire, England, May 8, 1996
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    Major wins: World road race champion 1960, 1967; world pursuit champion 1959–60, 1962–63, 1966; 72 British time trial titles; 25 British Best All-Rounder titles; 26 national pursuit and road titles; national record (men and women) 12 hours 1967, MBE 1964, OBE 1968
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    Further reading: Personal Best , autobiography reissued by Mercian Manuals 2009
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    A fixture in women’s racing for 30 years and a multiple world champion, the West Yorkshire racer was one of many cyclists done a disservice by the exclusion of
women from the OLYMPIC GAMES until 1984. Born Beryl Charnock and introduced to cycling by her husband Charlie in 1955, Burton was a fearsome presence on the international stage, taking two world titles in the road race (1960, 1967) and 10 medals in the individual pursuit, including five golds. Her feats were recognized in France at least, where she was invited to ride the Grand Prix des Nations—a Classic normally limited to the best male professionals—in 1968. Riding before the professional field, Burton was some 11 minutes 30 seconds slower than the great Italian Felice Gimondi over the 45-mile course.
    She combined her racing with various jobs including laboring on a fruit farm run by her Morley CC clubmate Nim Carline. No cosseted professional, when taking her first world title in Liege in 1959 she contributed expenses from her own pocket, and on returning home to Yorkshire she had to hitch a lift to her house from Leeds station. She dominated women’s racing in Britain for 30 years, but her finest exploit came in 1967 when she broke the British record for 12 hours, beating the men’s distance with 277.25 miles and overtaking the men’s champion Mike McNamara along the way.
    â€œMac” had started two minutes ahead of Burton; she overhauled him in the final hour, and she later recalled the moment in her autobiography Personal Best : “‘I’ll have to pass him,’ I thought. ‘Poor Mac, it doesn’t seem fair.’... ‘Mac raised his head slightly and looked at me. Goodness knows what was going on in his mind but I thought some gesture was required on my part. I was carrying a bag of liquorice allsorts in the pocket of my jersey and on impulse I groped into the bag and pulled one out. It was one of those swiss-roll shaped ones, white with a coating of black liquorice. ‘Liquorice allsort, Mac?’ I shouted and held it towards him. He gave a wan smile. I put my head down and drew away.”
    That year, she was awarded an OBE and was elected British Sportswoman of the year. Burton’s daughter Denise also competed, and mother and daughter both rode the world road race championships in Gap in 1972.

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    CAMPAGNOLO , Tullio (b. Italy, 1901, d. 1983)
    Founder of cycling’s most celebrated component makers and the man behind a host of innovations that are now universal in cycling, most notably the quick-release hub and a parallelogram rear derailleur that was not the first but was copied worldwide. During Campagnolo’s 50-year manufacturing career he patented 135 inventions and bikes