The prejudice that he had to contend with is graphically illustrated by the Barnet CC team of John Woodburn, John Harvey & Alf Engers beating the Olympic A team of Bill Holmes, Bryan Wiltcher and Ken Laidlaw. The event was the Antelope CC's 33.5 3-up TTT on 22 May 1960. Barnet's time was 1:27:45 while Olympic A's was 1:28:12. As the Barnet riders had not been selected this result was disapprovingly described as "unpatriotic" by the embarrassed authorities. Nowadays hopefully the selection procedure is more firmly based on ability.