Competition News

Vince Divine came home first in the 50th edition of the Herts Wheelers "Last Chance Points Grabber" road race.
The full report. photos and and results sheet are now online .

Barry Page is the new Revenge Cup winner after beating Tony & Chris.  Barry's 1:01:24 eclipsed Tony's 1:01:34 and Chris's 1:15:08.

Tony maintains his form and close racing amongst the chasers on a bright. autumn morning.

A nice warm, calm evening at Panshanger. Tony heads the field one again and Ian manages a course PB.

Tony wins again, Graeme fixes a puncture and Lloyd Chapman posts a 20:33.

Tony Marriott rode this event on the F1b course. He finished 32nd out of 60 In a time of 1:00:13.

The North Weald Handicap Series is run by TLI Cycling London & Home Counties Region. It comprises of 16 Events on Tuesday evenings which started in early May and will finish at the end of August. The races are around a circuit of 2.8km at North Weald Airfield.

A nice, warm, calm evening brought a lot of private entries and some fast times.

A solo effort from Tony yields excellent results in the scratch race and the Devil.

On a warm evening Richard sneaks in ahead of Tony.

On a sunny morning on the A1, Tony recorded 57:31 whilst Phil's time was 1:00:29.

Brian was at the track again. Warm evening. Scratch race was good and with 2 laps to go he attacked and distanced the group.  He was chased by two Welwyn Wheelers who, once they reeled him in, decided to stop working. Some of the riders from the front of the main group caught them with half a lap to go, so he managed to get onto a wheel there.  Two riders went for it and Brian went with them and eased passed them, even having time to encourage the rider that finished 2nd. The rest of the races he didn't figure in but enjoyed the racing.

Tony flew solo at this week's track league.  Weather was fantastic, warm and little wind.  Scratch race first up was very slow and tactical as always with a group of 3 riders getting clear and no one committing to reel them in.  He decided to go for it at just over a lap to go and distanced the pack to his amazement!  He reeled one in and managed to roll in 3rd so was very pleased.

Richard suffers a mechanical and Tony wins with a course PB on his new TT machine.

Almost a eureka moment!  A race that wasn't heavily influenced by the direction and speed of the wind.  Don't get that very often.  Phil fared best with 57:47 followed by Peter at 1:01:33 and Merv 1:04:58.  On the E2 it was a quicker return than outbound, but at least the outbound was encouraging as well.

Trying to get 15+stone of underpowered lard up a hill and into Sunday's strong headwind really didn't work for me and if I didn't have non-racing cycling goals this year I wouldn't have turned up.  As it was, many others didn't start including most of those that I would have been competitive with.  There were some good times but mine wasn't.  It was OK heading north on the A11\A14\A11 but it was very hard southbound.  Into the wind the uphill slopes seemed like mountains and finding any shelter was impossible.

On a cool, breezy night Mark Jones won in 21:09.

Brian on his own at the track but brings home two wins!

A warm, calm evening helped produce some good times including PBs for Mike and Ian