Cycling auction for Rob Jefferies
- Friday, 17 Jun 2011
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Pinarello bike, Rob Jefferies auction
A Pinarello FP1 bike, Bradley Wiggins’ sealed Dauphiné yellow jersey, cycling prints and books are all adult for auction in a fund-raiser for a family of Rob Jefferies, who died final month after being strike by a automobile while out riding. All deduction go to Rob’s family.
Ian Cleverly writes:
Rob Jefferies was a outrageous impression in each respect. A big, absolute male who could rip adult a lane and leave we floundering in his substantial wake. An intelligent, courteous and comical messenger who, no matter how prolonged given your final meeting, would continue a review undeviating on a many paltry theme and make it both fascinating and humorous (what Rob didn’t know about lane chainrings wasn’t value knowing…). A male who gave his time to others in a name of a foe he loved.
It incited out that Rob was as exposed as a rest of us when strike by a car, and British cycling has mislaid nonetheless another of a good characters to a engine vehicle. Most of a people donating to this auction knew Rob and weep his unnecessary detriment as keenly as we do, and have easily donated to lift income in his memory.
Now for a fun bit. Email your bids to auction@rouleur.cc by midnight, Friday Jun 24, inventory a lot series and object description. Highest bidder wins (please do not use turn numbers, ie £100). Successful bidders will be told by email and given remuneration sum a following week. Thank we for looking, as they contend on other obvious auction sites…
Lot 1 – Pinarello FP1
One code spanking new Pinarello in nationalistic red, white and blue. The Pinarello FP1 2011 is a tip of a operation Pinarello aluminium support bike. The geometry and tubing derives directly from their mythological Dogma. The FP1 has 6061 aluminium tubing with triple-layer T6 treatment, including a magnesium and silicone member to feature alloy during casting. TIG-welding, full-carbon Onda 30HM3K back monostay and Pinarello’s Onda fork. Shimano Tiagra groupset. Frame distance of your choice.
Lot 2 – Bradley Wiggins’ sealed yellow jersey from Critérium du Dauphiné
Wiggins became a third British supplement to win this tough week-long theatre foe fasten Brian Robinson and Robert Millar in a story books and environment himself adult easily for a arriving Tour. Brad has really pleasantly donated one of his yellow jerseys to a cause. We are not certain either he has cleared it, though…
Lot 3 – Geraint Thomas’ sealed immature jersey from Critérium du Dauphiné
Anything Brad can do… Thomas kicked off final year’s Dauphiné in style, holding a immature points jersey on a opening highway theatre to Saint-Laurent-du-Pont. The fact that he relinquished a points foe 24 hours after means there is usually one of these, and that’s what we are behest for, finish with sealed series 39.
Lot 4 – Maglia Rosa Special Edition
For a special book of Herbie Sykes’ decisive English denunciation book on a good race, author Herbie Sykes undertook a Giro d’Italia of his own. He trafficked 2,400km in 5 days to accumulate a autographs of 14 genuine Giro legends. Each male hand-signed a 120 books to assistance emanate a truly singular request travelling some 7 decades. Between them they comment for 17 Giro d’Italia wins, a serve 31 lectern places, and over 80 theatre victories. Magni, Balmamion, Gimondi, Battaglin, Moser, Bugno… a list goes on.
Lot 5 – David Millar sealed jersey, top bottle and musette
The usually British supplement to wear a leader’s jersey in all 3 Grand Tours sealed a Garmin-Cervélo jersey for us. Also enclosed are singular book ‘Racing Through a Dark’ cap, bottle and musette, which, unless we were propitious adequate to be during Millar’s book launch, we will onslaught to find.
Lot 6 – Signed ANC Halfords jersey
Four of a mythological British 1987 Tour de France team, theme of Jeff Connor’s glorious book Wide Eyed and Legless, have sealed this strange ANC jersey: Malcolm Elliott, Adrian Timmis, Graham Jones and Paul Watson. A square of cycling history.
Lot 7 – Signed Team GB jersey
Sir Chris Hoy, Shanaze Reade, Lizzie Armitstead ,Liam Phillips, Wendy Houevnaghel, Joanna Rowsell, Hannah Mayho, Ross Edgar, Matt Crampton, Jess Varnish, all on one Team GB jersey!
Lot 8 – Geoff Waugh motor-paced print
A glorious picture from a lens of Mr Waugh, capturing a Triumph motorbikes and paced riders in full moody during a Herne Hill Good Friday assembly in 2008. Measuring 30″ x 20″, a imitation is mounted on Foamex house and it’s a beauty.
Lot 9 – Stelvio imitation by Gerard Brown
An iconic shot of an iconic stand by Gerard, one of a best cycling photographers in a business. The Stelvio Pass is a top paved highway in a Eastern Alps and this heartless towering is prisoner to soundness in this print, accessible in a winning bidder’s selected size.
Lot 10 – Continental Tubulars
One span of Conti Competition tubulars with super-grippy Black Chili Compound and VectranBreaker puncture protection. Handmade by really clever women in Germany. Rob would approve.
Lot 11 – Cycling Weekly fender bundle
Our friends during Cycling Weekly have put together a garland of top-quality material; The Official Treasures of a Tour de France by Serge Laget and Luke Edwardes-Evans is a large story of Le Tour including 40 equipment of fascinating memorabilia; Phil O’Connor’s superb detailed reverence to Team GB’s award transport during a Beijing Olympics, Gold Rush 2008; Le Tour de France central story DVD and Jon Stroud’s Little Book of Cycle Racing; and a classical 1952 pattern Cycling T-shirt. Hours and hours of pleasure for any cycling fan.
A outrageous appreciate we to all who donated and helped with this auction: Cath Wiggins, Bradley Wiggins, Phil Griffiths, Gayle Howells, Geraint Thomas, David Millar, Cycling Weekly, Shelley Childs, Richard Hallett, Herbie Sykes, Geoff Waugh, Gerard Brown, Abby Burton and all during British Cycling.
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