Frederick Henry Grubb was a British road racing cyclist who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
24 Facts About Freddie Grubb
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Freddie Grubb won silver medals in the individual road race and the team road race.
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In 1935, FHG Ltd was established in Wimbledon, but by 1947, the F H Freddie Grubb name was back in use.
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Freddie Grubb rode for the Vegetarian Cycle and Athletic Club.
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Freddie Grubb broke the 100-mile time-trial record in 1910 on a fixed-wheel bike with no brakes.
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Freddie Grubb set a record for 12 hours in the Anerley event near Liverpool in 1911.
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Freddie Grubb set a record of 351 miles for a 24-hour time trial on the track.
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Freddie Grubb rode a Triumph bicycle with a reinforced frame to withstand his style of forcing round big gears.
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Freddie Grubb won two silver medals in the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912.
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Freddie Grubb has decided to make cycle racing and record breaking both on road and path a profession.
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Freddie Grubb, who has been a strict vegetarian for five years, is a non-smoker and total abstainer and should prove a very worthy British representative abroad.
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Freddie Grubb is 25 years of age and scales 12th stripped, and when he gets accustomed to the Continental methods, there is no reason he should not shine as a star of the very first order in the professional ranks.
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Freddie Grubb was considered for the New York, Paris and Berlin six-day races.
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Freddie Grubb rode briefly on the continent, starting in the 1914 Giro d'Italia before returning disillusioned.
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Freddie Grubb opened a cycle business in Brixton, south London, in 1914, but the First World War started.
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Freddie Grubb had long working hours and cycled to and from work every day.
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Freddie Grubb wanted to get into the Navy for an easier life, but his reserved-occupation status was a problem.
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Freddie Grubb opened another shop after the war with money from his clubmate Charlie Davey.
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Freddie Grubb [says] "NOT THE ONLY DROPOUT BUT THE ONLY GENUINE QUICK RELEASE".
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Apparently, Fred Freddie Grubb wanted all the credit as his name had top billing on the bikes they were making, and Ching was annoyed by this, staking a claim for Charley Davey, who was Fred's money man and the designer of the original QR.
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Freddie Grubb opened another business under his own name on London Road, West Croydon, in 1920, and by 1924, he had a shop at Robsart Street, Brixton.
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In 1934, Freddie Grubb advertised that his business was in liquidation.
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Freddie Grubb then opened another company, FHG, at 147a Haydons Road, Wimbledon, with 20 staff from the former venture.
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Freddie Grubb died on 6 March 1949, aged 61, in north-east Surrey, and his family continued the business.