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The National Cycle Museum has a Dragons Road Club badge
It’s marked : Western LCMPs after the name .

The museum has a huge collection of badges and we have them listed on a data base of which this is an extract

Ten years ago when this thread first started I mentioned that my father also had 'Western NCU' medals; does this appear on your list somewhere?
David

No that would be the Western section of the National Cyclist Union NCU a national racing body active in the first part of the 20th Century

BTW what happened to the original poster Merseymouth. i found his posts amusing. Hope he hasn't expired. Any trike riders know?

Thanks for info. on Western NCU.

These are all my dad's cycling medals from around 1930; most of them are Dragon Roads Club. They are mounted on a shield which is supposed to represent our family's coat-of-arms - totally fictitious but it makes a brilliant backdrop. I did a Repair-Shop job on it during lockdown.

The shield at the bottom was on a wooden biscuit barrel which sat on the sideboard at our family home. It was given for his 2073/4 miles in 12 hours in 1932. I have only just noticed that it reads '1st Hop' - did he carry on afterwards?

It is a shame that the chrome and wood barrel rotted after being stored in a shed at my parents house, I would have loved to be able to display it!

1st hop or 1st hcp (handicap)?

Yes, I think you are correct; 'hcp' - thank you but what does that mean?

Time trials involve riders starting at intervals and (for a 12 hr) finding out who can ride the furthest within the 12 hours. Most distance wins, next longest distance second, etc.

Many events have a parallel handicap competition that levels the field, if everybody performs at their expected level. A handicap winner did the most distance beyond their expected distance of anybody in the field but may not have actually ridden the furthest.

Thanks, does that mean my dad was winner/first in the handicapped riders?

My Dad was in the Dragon road club in the 1940s & 1950s. He knew Pete wilkes & Ron Wilkes who were also in the club. His name was Gordon Lovett. He lived in South Harrow & Wembley during this time.

Did your Dad cycle at Paddington like mine did? My Dad's family lived in South Harrow but he married in 1936 and moved to Wealdstone.

My Dad cycled at Harlsden & was on the committee.He was club secretary for a while.