The King - Alf Engers at speed.
Alf Engers was one of my heroes and I remember going to see him and his bike in a time trial near Usk...every part on his all-chrome Shorter was drilled out to perfection, even the handlebars. What a machine....and what a rider ! It was a fantastic sight to see the bike sparkling down the road with it's chrome spokes and shiney frame with it's fag paper clearances, and with Alf turning those big gears, great !
Updated 22.10.07
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Look at the holes in those
brakes !....and the handlebars !
A fantastic photo of Alf on the drilled-out
chrome flying machine taken by cycling photographer Bernard Thompson. Click
to enlarge.
From the front page of 'Cycling' 12.8.78, see also 'Amazing
Alf' as reported by Dennis Donovan inside the same edition.
Read
Alf and the 49:24, Gordon
Hayes' superb account of Alf's record-breaking sub-50 ride.
Alf
in action.
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Dale Brown sent me this great photo scan from International Cycle Sport, Nov.
1975 of 'King Alf' flying along in top gear. The drilled out chainring, brake
levers and handlebars can be clearly seen in the photo. There are also 2 pages
of text to go with this photo Page1
- Page2
Thanks Dale!
Some great
photos of Alf in action from the Ron Kitching 'Everthing Cycling' brochure
1987.
Paul Gittins took this great photo of Alf at Catterick at the finish of the
T254 course. Click to enlarge.
Alf concentrating before a ride. Click
the image to enlarge.
Alf's drilled out bars.
Nigel Scott of CampyOldy sent me these great photos of some bars that once belonged to the King, have a close look, you can see right through them!
