http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The Greatest: The Times and Life Of Beryl Burton en Sun, 17 May 2026 22:35:59 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19801#post-313083 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:32:33 +0000 gembo 313083@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The old liquorice allsort causing micturation routine </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19801#post-313081 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:23:51 +0000 Stickman 313081@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Review of a new biography of Beryl Burton:</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/aug/26/beryl-burton-liquorice-allsorts-shake-up-cycling" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/aug/26/beryl-burton-liquorice-allsorts-shake-up-cycling</a></p> <p><em>”Having completed 235 miles, still with almost two hours to go, she overhauled McNamara, who had started two minutes ahead of her and had been trying to keep her at bay, which meant repressing an urgent need to pee. As she went past, in a rather ambiguous gesture of consolation, she passed him a Liquorice Allsort. At that point he finally gave in to the need to climb off and empty his bladder”</em> </p>