fullname updated amateurteam death_date death_place proteam birth_place majorwins discipline birth_date nickname proyears role article_title name amateuryears
charles frederick davey october 2008 -- 7 october 1964 beckenham , london new hudson bicycle company croydon , england , united kingdom 1914 land 's end to london record -lrb- twice -rrb- 24-hour srra record with 402 miles london to portsmouth and back record 50-mile london to bath record record with harry paul london-worthing-london record road 27 august 1886 charlie 1923 rider charlie davey -lrb- cyclist -rrb-
 charles -lrb- charlie -rrb- frederick davey 1906 -- 1922
charlie davey -lrb- cyclist -rrb-

charles -lrb- charlie -rrb- frederick davey -lrb- 27 august 1886 -- 7 october 1964 -rrb- was a british racing cyclist who rode in the olympic games , the world championship and the marathon bol d'or race .
davey originally played football .
he also tried athletics .
at 17 he came third in a 12-mile walk promoted by tradesmen in addiscombe , surrey .
he competed for east surrey harriers .
he started cycling when his brothers persuaded him to try racing on a grass track in another event run by the tradesmen .
he won five prizes .
in 1910 .
he joined the vegetarian cycling and athletic club , moving to the addiscombe cc , a club he founded in 1906 .
his first win on the road was for the addiscombe club in the olympian cc 50-mile time trial , held between crawley and godstone , which he won by eight minutes in 2h 35m 0s .
in 1911 .
he finished third in the anerley 12-hour time-trial .
that qualified him to ride for britain in the 1912 olympic games road race in stockholm .
the race was run over 200 miles around lake mälaren .
the organisation was chaotic , riders bunching together instead of being separated , cars impeding the competitors and errors in the time-keeping .
davey won his first record when in 1914 he partnered harry paul to beat the southern road records association 50-mile time , followed two weeks later by london-worthing-london .
war interrupted his career and he became a petty officer in the royal naval air service , forerunner of the royal air force .
he was stationed in the orkney islands , where he swam two miles to a buoy in scapa flow and back again .
in 1920 davey he won seven track events , the balham 50-mile time trial , the anerley 12-hour and the lincolnshire championships at 25 , 50 and 100 miles .
he was selected for the olympic games in antwerp as a reserve .
he waited until the complete team had arrived at the ferry port in harwich , then rode the anerley 12-hour to finish second to maurice selbach .
his best year was 1921 , the year of the first cycling world road race championship .
davey was 34 .
britain ran the world championship in 1922 , again run as a time trial , in shropshire .
the winner was dave marsh of britain .
davey came third and britain won a gold medal as best team .
davey turned professional the following year for the new hudson bicycle company .
he beat the land 's end to london record by 1hr 55m , then the 24-hour record with 402 miles and land 's end to london again in 17h 29m .
he went to paris to ride the bol d'or marathon race on the buffalo velodrome .
he finished sixth , the winner being oscar egg after 550 miles .
davey 's last year was when he was 40 .
he beat the london to portsmouth and back record by 12 minutes and set the london to bath and back record at 11h 47m 52s .
in retirement he managed other riders ' record attempts and arranged or scheduled many rides between 1926 and 1960 .
addiscombe cycling club gave him a gold-plated spanner in 1959 for his work for the club .
he was celebrated in `` golden book of cycling '' in 1959 .
