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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine Volume 15 No.1 March 2018 !8

Once more our conversations were interrupted by Mr Hegarty and his ….. spoon!! At this
point I made a note for myself to ensure that the aforementioned has plastic cutlery for
next year’s lunch, and we can gather again with hopefully a few more members. “Hunt”

When lunch was concluded, the presentation of the various trophies was made:
Highgate Cup - Horatio Fitzkin (Ian Why); Distance Plate - Mr Mallard (Ray Kelly)
Shakespeare Plate - Mr Watty (Stuart Mason-Elliot); President's Cup - Wilmot Snipe
(Howard Bradbury); Burts Pedals - Samuel Pickwick/Jingle (Ron Beale);

So ended another very pleasant day with thanks going once again to Pruffle & Hunt

Did You Know? Inertia & The Bicycle
Whilst we know that Albert Einstein was very clever –I am assuming of course that you all
recall his theory of relativity, but he also knew about bicycles. He informed his son in 1930,
that “life is like riding a bicycle; to keep your balance you must keep moving.” However in
Japan in 1965, Tsugunobu Mitsuishi chose to ignore this theory. He decided to try to remain
balanced and totally stationary on his bicycle, without any support and with neither pedalling
or forward/backward movement at all. He achieved a still unchallenged record of 5hrs
25mins. (courtesy Cycling’s Strangest Tales/Pavilion books)