An example of the long, rich cycling history that exists throughout Tasmania was sent to the BnC inbox last week. We can only hope that such tales of grandeur and glory are told of us hundreds of years in the future.<\/p>\n
Ben said I could be a honourary member of the gang even though I don’t ride one of those fixed chain skinny tyred beasts around in circles.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n I think my Great, great, great, great, great grand father Pevis McEllendale (who changed his name to James Clark after a long story) was one of the original Iron Horses of rock who competed in 1882.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Legend has it that Pevis rode a respectable race but failed to finish in the top 3 placings. It is understood that Pevis’s bike was way ahead of it’s time having a hollow steel frame instead of solid cast iron. His bike is rumoured to have weighed only 87kg which was around half of the normal for the time, amazing!<\/em><\/p>\n The disadvantage that Pevis faced in 1882 with is that his bike had no seat<\/u> and Pevis was forced to take it up the ass for the whole 13 hours he raced for. It’s no wonder he missed the podium after that shafting. Apparently the creek crossings were an ordeal!!<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n So in the memory of old Pevis I have no choice but to enter myself into the Bottles and Chains \u2018Disciples of the Iron Horse\u2019 Ride event, with no seat! No scratch that, with seat. My race title will be ‘Pevis McEllendale Jnr’.<\/em><\/p>\n Disco.<\/em><\/p>\n See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An example of the long, rich cycling history that exists throughout Tasmania was sent to the BnC inbox last week. We can only hope that such tales of grandeur and glory are told of us hundreds of years in the future. Ben said I could be a honourary member of the gang even though I … Continue reading “The trials and tribulations of Pevis McEllendale (1882)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bottlesandchains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}