As a singles rider, Charlie Brooks had a memorable season in 1907, when he raced in London and beat many of the top local riders like Leon Meredith, Gerald Anderson, Frederick Hamlin and others. Brooks won the London Centre Championship at 10 miles that year and also the coveted St. Albans Challenge Cup at the annual Bath Cycling Club Festival. In 1908 he teamed up with William Isaacs to win the NCU one-mile tandem title. They went on to break the world quarter-mile tandem record and win a bronze medal at the London Olympics, but the partnership was dissolved shortly after the Games. Brooks died at the age of 55 and, up to the time of his death, cycled to work every day from his Leicester home to his office of the manufacturing business he owned.
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