Eileen Sheridan, cycling’s road record superwoman, passed away last weekend aged 99, just eight months shy of her 100th birthday. The Coventry-born rider was famed for her place-to-place exploits in the 1950s, amassing every major record at one point, including the coveted Land’s End to John o’ Groats record.
She even appeared on the front of this very magazine, lauded as “Britain’s Greatest Cyclist” in a full-page cover ad taken out by cycle manufacturer Hercules, to whom she was contracted to