Reading Time: 3 minutes Fin. Pos. Rider Club Category Nett Handicap Vets Std Plus Approx 50 Mile Time 100 Mile Time 1 Mark Nulty Glossop Kinder Velo Cycling Club Senior 3:39:31 N/A 1:48:27 3:39:31 2 Charles Taylor Team Bottrill / HSS Hire Senior 3:44:14 N/A 1:49:32 3:44:14 3 Tom Rigby Springfield Financial Racing Team Senior 3:24:57 N/A 1:50:25 3:52:57 […]
M&DTTA 100 (inc Club Champs) – 2nd July
Reading Time: 3 minutes You will recall this time last year, Dave Fearon took the Gold in the club Championships by just 1 second, that wasnt going to happen this year as he opted not to ride, leaving Just Alistair and me to contest it. Dave Fearon does an excellent job of organising this event, it is a thankless […]
Seamons CC RR 27 June
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last night Tony Booth and myself rode the old man’s Seamons CC Road Race at Siddington, Matt Ellis was in the Junior event. 3 laps of the Congleton circuit in changeable weather. I started reasonably, had a couple of digs towards the end of the first lap, both of which were brought back. Tony went […]
M&DTTA 50 Championship – WVCC champs
Reading Time: 2 minutes Don’t we cyclists complain a lot about the cold & wet weather? Saturday the Sun God took control and boy did we complain…..phew what a scorcher! WVCC had 5 entrants in the M&DTTA 50 champs but the main prize from our side was the Weaver Valley CC club 50 champs. Would Jim Duffy finally take his […]
Five Father’s Day Freaks
Reading Time: 6 minutes Father’s Day yesterday and we were the Fathers, King’s of the road. Who’s the Daddy? Who’s the Daddy? We were. At least that’s how we set off. By the time we returned home though the road had chewed us up and spat us out and we were vanquished like Arnold Schwarzenegger after his first day at […]
Team Swift 10 (Slower Than 21.00 But Fas...
Reading Time: 3 minutes In September last year, I managed to scrape an entry on the fastest 10 mile TT course in the country, the V718 in Hull. On the morning of the event, the weather was terrible and forecast to rain all day, I decided not to make the 5 hr round trip, gambling on them cancelling the […]
Club 10 – 14th June
Reading Time: < 1 minute PLEASE NOTE : Wednesday nights TT has been cancelled due to road works, please also note, as a result of this, the final fling will now be a counter.
2-up TTT – 7th June 2017
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sorry for the late report, life has been getting in the way! Contrary to rumours starting from a wind-up last week, this TT did not count for the Guardian Cup, for those who rode it solo. It did however produce some interesting results, particularly from the 3-up of Hunt / Hassall & Langridge who produced a […]
Fastest Rider Points Table after Round 4
Reading Time: < 1 minute At long last below is the current standings for the new trophy (yet to be named) for the person with the highest number points across 7 best rider out of 10 in the club 10’s based on placings on actual time rather than handicap time This competition is aimed at rewarding the fastest riders but […]
Bickerstaffe Road Race
Reading Time: 6 minutes Bickerstaffe Road Race! I’m home, showered and sunburned after my first real crack at a road race, so with beef hula hoops in hand I thought I’d write a blog – not least because I promised Mr Geoff Lovelady that I’d provide a summary. I entered Bickerstaffe several months ago whilst planning out my year […]
Guardian Cup – Points after 4 rounds
Reading Time: < 1 minute Jim Duffy recording an excellent PB in round 4, and grabbed max. Guardian Cup points in the process. Paul Connor yet again improved on his time to gain 24 points, and has put in quite a lead thus far in the competition. The only other person to improve this evening was Clare Hargreaves, who looks to […]
Guardian Cup 10 – Round 4 – 31st May 201
Reading Time: < 1 minute Another good night with a slight amount of rain but nothing to dampen the spirits. Our humble club 10’s are attracting some quality riders these days with Olympic champions and pros last week and this week Simon Bridge, a regular winner in time trials and road races in the Manchester Area and recently moved to […]