So I thought I'd add one of mine to this months contenders, knowing that the standard will be pretty high, and having seen enough TV shows to know that a good back story can increase your chances of winning (I'm doing this for "our Gran" etc etc ) I thought I'd try to compensate for a fairly average unrestored bike with a huge chunk of (mainly true) blurb in an obvious attempt to influence the outcome

. . . so . . .
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In 1937, like a lot of young men at the time Mr W H Peters of 381 Lyham Rd, London SW2 was thinking about massed start Continental bike racing (It'll never catch on here in good old Blighty !), which was handy as he'd clearly come into a bit of money (or perhaps sponsorship) and had decided to add to his current 1935 Evans clubman by ordering TWO ( yes TWO ! one with gearing, one without) brand new Evans Anglo Continentals, They were a new model that year and were designed specifically for racing on the continent (according to the sales leaflets), The Anglo Continental model was bordering on revolutionary, to the untrained eye it looked exactly 100% identical to their usual racing machines, except these had the lamp boss on the "wrong" side, a Blue and red decal on the down tube and most importantly they'd misspelt London as "Londres", There was clearly nothing standing in the way of them (and Mr Peters) totally dominating the 1939 bike racing season on continental mainland Europe,
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Mr Peters obviously clocked that it may not be "all over by Christmas" as he used nearly an entire gallon tin of Castrol axle grease, covering all 3 bikes, and then used the tin to store his spare pedals, brake blocks and paperwork,
His house and shed (where the bikes were stored under 16 coal/mail sacks) escaped the bombing (you can see it on google streetview !) unlike a lot of the area
All 3 bikes survived there, intact, behind a coal storage area for 75years
For whatever reason, he never returned to collect them and never got to race on the continent.
This is one of them