{"id":802687,"date":"2026-10-14T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802687\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T20:44:11","slug":"meet-the-maker-chris-yeomans-and-the-flying-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802687\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Maker: Chris Yeomans and The Flying Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The ride feel is what gets most people,\u2019 says Chris Yeomans, current steward of the iconic Flying Gate marque. \u2018I often get comments along the lines of, \u201cI feel like I am being pushed uphill,\u201d or, \u201cIt\u2019s like the wind is always behind me.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Yeomans is fresh back from touring the east coast of Ireland with his wife, Dawn. For the trip, they each rode slightly different versions of what some might say is one of British cycling\u2019s great engineering curiosities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"647\" height=\"970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/flying-gate-MAMB-2-647x970.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275541\"  \/>Juan Trujillo Andrades \/ Cyclist<\/p>\n<p>Conceived in the 1930s \u2013 an era when time-trialling dominated the domestic racing scene \u2013 the Flying Gate was originally known by its creators as the VS37 and commercially as the International TT. Its unconventional frame, with its cut-off seat tube, double sets of seatstays and additional vertical tube, created a gate-like silhouette, while its short wheelbase and stiffness made it ride like a spooked cat. It didn\u2019t take long for its nickname to eclipse the official title, and it has stuck ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Yeomans is the latest in a succession of custodians who, over the decades, have committed themselves to keeping the Flying Gate from drifting into obscurity. Originally designed and built by Bill and Reg Baines of the Baines Company in Bradford, the Gate went out of production in 1954 and remained in a state of dormancy until it was resurrected by framebuilder Trevor Jarvis of TJ Cycles in 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018The ride feel is what gets most people,\u2019 says Chris Yeomans, current steward of the iconic Flying Gate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-802687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}