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Time Trialling 2009
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 Fastest1st Dominic Sweeney – 22:14 2nd Tom Lackenby (J) – 22:40 3rd David Clarke – 23:09 4th Paul Davis – 23:30 Ladies 1st Rachel Smith – 28:27 2nd Georgina Jennings – 29:49 3rd Evelyn Clawson – 30:41 Junior/Juvenille 1st Tom Lackenby – 22:40 2nd Andrew Brind-Surch – 24:15 Vet on Standard (40-49) 1st Paul Davis - +2:36 2nd Greg Ashley - +2:22 3rd Simon Pitchford - +2:00 Vet on Standard (50-59) 1st Ian Waddilove – +3:41 2nd John Dainty - +1:23 3rd Richard Pratt - +0:34 Vet on Standard (60+) 1st Richard Glover - +5:33 2nd Ralph Stevens - +4:40 3rd Keith Bentley - +3:55 1st Team of 3 Riders Paul Davis (v) 23:30; Peter Galpin 23:36; Jonathon Best 24:55 |
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 Photographs from the Shaftesbury CC 10 on the 9th May 2009. Please note that a donation will be made to "Help for Heroes" from every photograph sold from this race in memory of Gareth Evans. |
 Photographs from the Shaftesbury CC 10 on the 9th May 2009. Please note that a donation will be made to "Help for Heroes" from every photograph sold from this race in memory of Gareth Evans. |
 Provisional Result £225 Shorter Rochford (McCulloch, Holton, Duggleby) 1.3.33 (course record) £165 Sigma Sport (Golla, Walters, Sybrandy) 1.4.19 £135 Arctic Premier (Axford, McGaw, Barclay) 1.4.57 £120 Leeds Uni (King, Dales, Tunnicliffe) 1.7.39 £105 Cambridge Uni (Ahearn, Nichols, Hawkins) 1.8.03 £90 VC St Raphael (Sykes, StLeger, Horner) 1.8.24 £75 Oxford Uni (Elzinga, Weatherall, Martin) 1.8.54 £60 Cambridge Uni (Third, Holt, Zak) 1.9.58 £45 North Hampshire RC (Graham, Onslow, Girvan) 1.10.28 £30 a3crg (Dyer, Lovell, Ponting) 1.10.44 Women £90 a3crg (Walkling, StLeger, Tinn) 1.21.38 £60 Ful-On Tri (Williams, Creswick, Taylor) 1.27.42 BUCS Championship Gold: Leeds Uni (King, Dales, Tunnicliffe) 1.7.39 Silver: Cambridge Uni (Ahearn, Nichols, Hawkins) 1.8.03 Bronze: Oxford Uni (Elzinga, Weatherall, Martin) 1.8.54 Women Gold: Cambridge Uni (Fenton, Kemp, Brice) 1.28.26 |
 Results – A5 Rangers Hilly on 21st March 2008A much better day this year for the event, bright warm spring sunshine instead of last years blizzard. Thank you very much to the couple on the motorbike for helping out taking numbers for me so that I could name the photographs. I’m afraid I didn’t ask your names, but thank you for your help. Well update from Cath Weiss, I now know the identity of my helper and it was John Sadler and I must also wish him a very happy birthday for today. So happy birthday and thank you for the help. 30 Mile Event – Men 1st Matt Bottrill (De Rosa) – 1:10:07 (Split 35:01) 2nd Scott Walker (De Rosa) – 1:13:09 (Split 36:24) 3rd PNuT Arnold (API) – 1:14:06 (Split 37:01) 4th James Perkins (Zenith CC) – 1:14:08 (Split 36:32) 5th Stuart Wright (M&D Cycles) – 1:15:16 (Split 37:35) 30 Mile Event – Ladies 1st Cath Weiss (M&D Cycles) – 1:24:38 (Split 41:29) 2nd Catherine Essex (Kings Lynn CC) – 1:26:28 3rd Alex Zebedee (Speedwell BC) – 1:39:57 15 Mile Event – Men 1st Sam Barker (Planet X RT) – 37:15 2nd Ross Clarke (Team Milton Keynes) – 37:30 3rd Tony Ball (Team Swift) – 38:31 4th Dave Lazenby (A5 Rangers) - 39:11 5th Tom Gosbee (Team Welwyn) – 39:30 15 Mile Event – Ladies 1st Linda Hubbard (Welland Valley CC) – 44:42 2nd Kim Paxton (Witham Wheelers) – 53:22 3rd Stacey Penn (Team Endura-Thule) – 56:43 4th Clare Kleanthous (Team Milton Keynes) – 57:53 |
 1st race for me of the 2009 season. I'm trying to put names on the shots this year, but haven't got some first names from the start sheet for this one just initials, so I've put on the names I know and if you know any of the others, please let me know and I can update them.Winner was Matt Bottrill of De Rosa RT by one second in 44-55 (26.95mph) from James Perkins, Zenith CC, in second place with Geoff Platts, De Rosa RT, third and fastest vet std in 46-04. Bradley Burbidge, Cycling Bargains RT, was fastest Junior with an excellent 50-34. Fastest Female was K Elena with 1-04-34.De Rosa RT won the team prize. |
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Road Racing 2009
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 Ian Walker Road Race, promoted by Rockingham Forest CC. |
Portraits
 Shots from shoot at Elemental Studios with Kitty Blue, for more information on Kitty, please visit her web site at kittyblue.com |
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 Shots from Studio meeting at Elemental Studios with Emi-Lu. |
Grass Track
 Max Pendleton, ably assisted by Chief commissaire Paul Savage, Assistant commissaire Julia Gilbert and Starter Kate Kennedy, put on a marvelous afternoons entertainment. The significant junior contingent coped well with the blustery but dry conditions and all of the riders were encouraged along by a knowledgeable commentator (Dave Kennedy) and a number of well wrapped up spectators. The first of the events for the meeting were the heats of the 800m Scratch Sprint, part of the National Short Distance League. With fresh legs the heats were fast and furious and there were some close fought battles. First heat winners Bryan Taylor (VC Londres), Richard Lambert (Cottingham Couriers RT) and John McClelland (Agiskoviner) the National Hard Track Endurance League title winner in 2007 and 2008, going through as of right to the final leaving the remaining riders to fight it out in the repercharges. Between the Senior events the Juvenile Omnium event series was started consisting of the 400M Time Trial, 800m Handicap, Juvenile 1600m and Devil take the hindmost. All of the Under 16 riders put their hearts and souls into every single one of the Omnium events, trying right to the line, even though the later events on the Omnium series were quite long. With the Juvenile Devils having such large fields, and on a 400m circuit with a taxing wind, anyone who lost the wheel in front was destined for a hard ride to the line. CC Ashwell Youth Section heavily outnumbered the competition and took the first three places with boys juvenile winners: 1st Theo Doncaster. 2nd Joe Page. 3rd Matthew Ellis 4th Daniel Maynard 5th Jack Norton Ladies Omnium winners (not confirmed, appologies if names are incorrect): 1st Jody Brumhead 2nd Hannah Payton 3rd Claire Larby (Mildenhall CC) 4th Karen Lifford (Team VC Nottingham) 5th Fiona Pegg 6th Karen Pegg 7th Harriet Page 8th Rebecca Maynard The 800m Scratch Sprint Repercharge heats followed, with Matthew Fenton (Cottingham Couriers RT), Adam Ellis (Spalding CC) and Bradley Burbridge (Cyclingbargains.com) all going through to the final. The 800m final was a tussle between youth and experience, which lead to an exiting race with Bryan Taylor leading out after the first bend shakeout and taking the bell for the last lap of the 400m track. He was closely followed by John McClelland and Bradley Burbridge, with the remaining riders gradually getting tailed off. Bryan Taylor was obviously trying to destroy the opposition with some fast pace riding but he hadn't reckoned with the a sudden attack from Bradley Burbridge, who took lessons from his mistake to leave his sprint too late in his heat with John McClelland , made his move with 300m to go and had a couple of bike lengths lead heading down the back straight. With no assistance from the other riders Bryan Taylor gritted his teeth in pursuit, but try as he might he could not close the gap and Bradley Burbridge held on all the way to the line. Bryan Taylor just had enough left and dug deep in the sprint with John McClelland for second. If Bradley keeps this kind of racing up will be a sure fire star for the future. Race results: 1st Bradley Burbridge (Cyclingbargains.com) 2nd Bryan Taylor (VC Londres) 3rd John McClelland (Agiskoviner). 4th Adam Ellis 5th Matt Fenton 6th Richard Lambert The final event of the day was the 8Km Scratch. It was an easy paced start with riders doing bit and bit on the front of the bunch for the first few laps, but it wasn't to last. Matthew Fenton and Leigh Haigh (Victoria CC) eased off the front and working together created a significant gap. The bunch let them hang out for a couple more laps until with fear that the gap would get too big, Bryan Taylor and Gavin Daley (VC Lincoln) shot out to chase down the leaders. The next pair to try the chase out of the rapidly splintering pack were John McClelland and Martin Smith (Chesterfield Couriers). Two laps later and with a defiant show of strength, Bryan Taylor rode away from his chase partner and closed the 100m gap to the leaders. Gavin Daley, John McClelland and Martin Smith fell back to the remnants of the bunch and tried a desperate chase back to the three leaders. But with the added impetus from Bryan Taylor the gap between the leading trio and the bunch was now increasing to the point where even the combined efforts of the remaining six riders were not enough keep it from growing. With the back of the race splintering it was now the turn of the leaders to take a hammering and Bryan Taylor was the man with the hammer, powering away from his race partners, and in the process, lapping all but the 4th place rider for a well deserved, and hard fought win. Race results: 1st Bryan Taylor (VC Londres) 2nd Leigh Haigh (Victoria CC) 3rd Matthew Fenton (Cottingham Couriers RT) 4th John McClelland 5th Richard Lambert 6th Gavin Daley 7th Bradley Burbridge 8th Andrjez Bojarksi 9th Pete Wheelan 10th Andy Ballentyne 11th Steve Oglesby 12th Adam Ellis Other race results: 800m Handicap: 1st John McClelland (Agiskoviner) 2nd Martin Smith (Chesterfield Couriers) 3rd Andy Ballentyne (Easterly Road Club) Unknown Distance: 1st Bryan Taylor (VC Londres) 2nd Bradley Burbridge (Cyclingbargains.com) 3rd Andrzej Borjarski (Hemel Hempstead CC) All in all an exiting days entertainment with plenty of action and good racing for all ages and abilities. It was great to see so many young riders enjoying their sport. Grass track racing is well worth a try for any rider at any level, its good fun for the spectator too. |
The Waving Gallery
For all the riders who wave or gesture as they pass me on the road this season. Thank you!
 A big thank you to everyone who waves hello when they are racing. I'm sorry if I don't know all your names, so if I haven't put your name on a photo, just send a comment and I'll put it up.Sarah |
Landscapes
This gallery will be added to over the coming months.
 Local scenes and views from around Northamptonshire. |
 Taken in local bluebell woodland. |