Stage races Brian Robinson BEM (3 November 1930 – 25 October 2022) was an English road bicycle racer of the 1950s and early 1960s.

His success as a professional cyclist in mainland Europe paved the way for other Britons such as Tom Simpson and Barry Hoban.

Both his parents worked at a factory producing parts for Halifax bombers, Henry at night and Milly by day.

In 1952 he was fourth in the NCU title race, won the hill-climb championship, and was fifth in the Isle of Man International.

[4] The future Tour de France winner, Jacques Anquetil, was 12th, and Robinson raced against him again in the world cycling championship in Italy in September 1952 where they tied for eighth.

In 1953, Robinson left the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and joined the Ellis Briggs team as an independent, or semi-professional.

Robinson was eighth in Paris–Nice, fourth in La Flèche Wallonne and led the Tour of the Six Provinces to the sixth stage.

He punctured on a climb on the tenth stage when in a break with Italy's Angelo Conterno, the race winner, but managed to recover from eleventh to eighth.

[6] Robinson crashed on wet cobbles early in the 1957 Tour de France, injuring his left wrist.

The team's manager, Sauveur Ducazeaux, insisted the judges apply a rule that no rider in the first ten could be eliminated.

[7] Robinson, at 74, helped organise a dinner in August 2005 to mark the 50th anniversary of the first British competitors in the Tour de France.

[11] On 16 July 2014, Robinson was knocked off his bike in a collision with a car driver whilst riding through Thornhill Lees, suffering a fractured collar bone, six broken ribs, a punctured lung.

[12] Robinson was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to charity and cycling.