Whacked – a tandem attempt that failed, Part 1

These tales of Charlie and Jack keep cropping up because Charlie quite liked riding tandem, and Jack, the owner of said tandem seemed to quite like Charlie being at the front – I’ll never fathom out why!

After a particularly slow December clubrun, too slow to keep warm, Charlie persuaded Jack to give his tandem an airing the following week, and they would just show everyone what they could achieve.  So it was the following week, Sunday, 11 December 1927, that they set forth at the unbelievable time – in winter – of 4.30am.  The going was good, the wind in their favour, records could tumble today, so our heroes stepped up to the plate and gave it all they could.  The frightening aspects were yet to come.

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