Booty’s record quest
t was a “damp and dismal” November morning just outside Foxton, South Cambridgeshire, as the best tester Britain had ever known climbed off his bike. He’d given his best for several hours but with the wind against him, heavy traffic and being forced to run with his bike after taking a chance in storming past a road closed sign just outside Foxton he’d had to call it quits. Ray Booty would not go to bed on that night in 1955 as the new RR A 100-mile record holder as he’d hoped.
