Bill was cycling correspondent for the News Chronicle (Daily News London) - lots more about Beryl across the years she was racing. Granted not massive articles but she was definitely being acknowledged and appreciated - especially by those in the know..

Currently reading ‘Beryl’ by Jeremy Wilson - I was intrigued by his commentary that Beryl got little press coverage because she is just the kind of cyclist that I imagined my Great Uncle Bill would have been keen to follow and report on - sure enough I found these little gems of articles

This was a bit of a whirlwind - so grateful to @cycologies.com for this article and delving into family history that we didn’t know about!! I hope to one day I have time to find out more about Bill

Nine months ago I received an email that sent me down a rabbit hole and ended up as an article in @cyclingweekly.com. That story is now available online. Below, Bill Mill's great-niece @genkigalcycling.bsky.social models the copy of the Comic it appeared in.

Rules about starting and finishing with the same equipment. Lead seals - a small piece of wire with a stamped bit - were attached to mark the components. Dates back to 1890s.

As excitement builds for the 2025 men’s #TdF here’s a snapshot of the 1939 tour which was the last one before 2nd WW. One for you @cycologies.com - why were the bicycles sealed?

And I finally got my copy of Cycling Weekly with @cycologies.com article about Bill Mills. It was sold out in local shops and took a trip up north to get one!

Some Bank holiday reading and there’s definitely no AI in this article about my Great Uncle written by @cycologies.com

Need a little advice - someone has kindly given me a Mercian touring bike. I’d like to pimp it up and auction if off for my fundraising- any ideas how to go about this?!? Never restored a bike before! Or maybe just sell the frame and components separately?

“until you have tried to climb stiles, negotiate barbed wire fences, stumble over sodden fields, wade through swamps and ponds, climb on all fours up impossible gradients, with a bicycle sung round your shoulders …then you do not qualify as a member of that inner circle..#

So thrilled that the amazing Amy Hudson is one of my special guests at my big fundraising event for Cure Leukaemia- Celebrating Women in Sport! Book tickets here - please spread the word! www.celebratingwomeninsport.org.uk

Did you know that @holland-tom.bsky.social - the historian, not Spider-Man - is Charlie's great-nephew? You two should swap war stories about being related to British cyclists of the 1930s. "My relly was the first Brit to ride the Tour!" "Mine was the first to ride the pro World Championships!"

I’m not obsessed with reading cycling books - honest 🤪 one was bought against your advice @cycologies.com

Finishing off the evening with some war time humour - the Bicycle invited readers to share their funny blackout stories. One guy who nearly cycled into 2 elephants in Croydon- can’t quite work out if this is a joke - thoughts?

Then how the war disrupted my heroine’s 1,200 mile cycling tour around Norway

Then back to October 1939 and the first month of blackouts - 1130 people killed on roads in 4 weeks which was apparently more than the total number of civilians killed in WWI by air raids 😮

Insight into the early impact of rationing which came in on Monday 11 January 1940- (I think if I’ve interpreted the article correctly) - one lump of sugar with tea 🫖

Spent a dreary afternoon immersed in cycling in the 1940s, rationing and black outs still didn’t stop the avid cyclist back then!

Blow for women’s cycling 🥲

Whilst the Santos Tour Down Under is going on - I’m looking into cycling training plans from 1939. Tips on ‘How to get Fit Fast’ 21/1/1939 article in The Bicycle- spoiler alert- things have not moved on as much as you think they have!! Consistency is key….

Bill Mills. He dared to dream of being the first Briton to ride the Tour de France.