His father owned and ran the local newspaper, The Pocklington Weekly News and at 14 Stancer wrote cycling articles for it.
The Bicycle wrote: "The new broom, if it went to work in unspectacular fashion, swept exceedingly clean.
The five-shilling [25p] subscription was doubled, and although many heads were shaken at the 'folly' of such policy, its success was never in doubt, and membership figures ascended into the fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, and thirty thousand classes.
"[4] Stancer was awarded the Bidlake Memorial Prize,[5] one of British cycling's top honours, in 1943.
After Stancer's death, a trust fund was established to promote and encourage young cyclists.