Conisbrough Ivanhoe on Road Race Trail Again.

April 1964

South Yorkshire Times April 4. Conisbrough Ivanhoe on Road Race Trail Again. Conisbrough Ivanhoe, the most successful Yorkshire team in time trials racing in 1963 with 18 wins to their credit, started their 1964 campaign on Monday when the full team of Barry Breedon, Tony Moffat, Brian Watkin and Eric Wright competed in the North Notts Olympic road clubs open “25” It was in this annual race, on the Great North Road course near Newark, that the Ivanhoe team had one of their best 1963 wins, with Hopkin, Moffat and Breedon filling the first three places in that order with only six seconds separating them. Easter was later in the year then, of course, and the Ivanhoe team had had several outings before that, winning the team prizes in the Mears broke and Doncaster 25 mile T.T.’s on the previous weekend’s. They were not expecting any great success for this first outing, compete with riders who have been racing every week since March 1. Small Program. Apart from the new race the only cycling program in the North Midlands and Yorkshire was the smallest for years. The cyclists fight shy of holiday dates with the result that there was not a single opening time trial in the whole of that district on Easter Sunday, and only two open road races, at Bradford and Derby.