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> he made his own bicycles out of washing machine parts

Wasn't it just the bottom bracket that he reused from a washing machine?

Nice:

'Obree himself said: "My biggest regret of my career is mentioning to a journalist that there was a bit from a washing machine in my bike.

"Now forever I will be remembered as the washing machine guy."'

You may enjoy the film based on his life.

The Flying Scotsman

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472268/

Before watching the film, one should add that what Graham never revealed until recently is that many of his problems stemmed from the fact that he was repressing his homosexuality, much to his mental distress.

> It led to attempts like Chris Boardman’s successful one in 2000. He rode ... so far forward that his style was called the Superman position.

This sentence made my blood boil

Why?

Obree pioneered the position. Boardman and his team thought he was a joke.