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    A brief chat with... The Greeves Riders’ Association

    Dec 04, 2019 4 minutes
    Words: TIM BRITTON
    Photographs:
    MORTONS ARCHIVE/TIM BRITTON

    How many clubs have started up following a chance remark made during a conversation? Likely to be a few I would imagine, and it was just the case with the Greeves Riders’ Association in 1984.

    In such things as a club interview, it is generally down to one volunteer to pass on and check the information – often the volunteer doesn’t realise they’ve been nominated, so thanks have to go to Colin Sparrow for not backing off when others volunteered him…

    The chance remark which started the club came to Peter Smith when he was talking to the former Greeves competition manager Chris Goodfellow a few years after

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