Local Cycling News

Sarah Storey (Horizon Fitness/Prendas Ciclismo) stormed to victory in the Blenheim Palace 20km Time Trial. Clearly enjoying the closed road circuit, Storey clocked 28.29, comfortably winning the ladies race and placing her 4th overall only two minutes down on Multi -National Champion Michael Hutchinson. Prizes were presented by the Duke of Marlborough in the grounds of the historic palace.

Sarah is sponsored by Parkstone based cycle clothing suppliers, Prendas Ciclismo, the guys at Prendas have a tradition of encouraging up & coming talent. Daniel Lloyd, Dan Martin, Luke Gray, Anna Blyth, Emma Trott & Stephen Burke are just a few of the riders who have benefited from Prendas support. Storey has been putting in the training miles ahead of the World Road Championships in Denmark next month, after a successful first season with the Horizon/Prendas team. The Bournemouth Jubilee wheelers 2nd claim member has been selected for the Para-Cycling squad and is also in contention for the able bodied team.Storey told "E D" "It would be great to defend the two titles i won in 2010. Road racing is something i have worked hard at,to try to expose myself to as many different race scenarios as possible, but its a tricky event, so i just have to get stuck in and see what happens"

Before traveling to Denmark Story will also race in the British Time Trial Championships. New Forest based Julia Shaw will start favourite for the Women’s Title. Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky Procycling) will look to defend his title from last year.

Experienced roadman/sprinter Roland Tilley (ridebike.co.uk) won the Fareham Wheelers LVRC Autumn Road Race on the Portsdown Hill circuit overlooking Portsmouth Harbour. After 5 second places Tilley was pleased to get his first win of the season. The 64 mile race came down to a sprint between 7 riders who had broken away on the steep climb. Tilley won comfortably from Paul Andres (TMG HORIZON).

Next up for the Ridebike.co.uk rider, will be the final round of the Southern area MTB series at Pippingford in West Sussex.Tilley has a ton of experience on the road but these days prefers the rough stuff!

Peter Wilson (Bournemouth Arrow/Collingwood Hotel) took second place in the 55 mile supporting race.

Alex Dowsett (Team Sky ProCycling) won the North Hampshire Road Club 25 with a rapid 47.28, James Gilfillan (Team Feat) was impressive taking 2nd place with 51.09. Other local riders in action were Poole Wheelers quartet Terry Icke,55.13, Richard Davidson 57.14, Darren Lewis 57.54 & Terry Belbin

1.02.11, Terry Jeffries (NFCC) 1.02.07 & Phil Harvey (BJW) 1.04.31

Colin Humm (New Forest cc) took the honours in the in the season-long club time trial series. Ben Boardman pushed Humm all the way; the final 10 mile event saw the pair both finish on the same time, 23.53. Humm took the title with a full 90 points from his six counting events while Boardman scored 86.

Will Stephenson (Bournemouth Arrow/Collingwood Hotel) & Richard Horton (Bournemouth Jubilee Wh) will both ride the Junior Tour of Wales this bank holiday weekend. The event comprises 5 stages over 3 days and is open to riders aged 16-18 years. Stage 1 on Saturday morning will be a 4.5 mile TT followed by a 45 mile road race in the afternoon. Sunday starts with a circuit race, stage 4 in the afternoon is a rolling 57 mile road stage. The 62 mile "queen" stage on Bank Holiday Monday includes the 5 mile climb of Tumble Mountain in the Brecon Becons.

It seems some help is needed with marshals for the Premier calendar race being held on Sunday on a Wilton – Fovant Down – Broadchalke circuit. See the website at http://www.twiningstour.com/. A great opportunity to see the top British domestic Pro's up close in the best cycle race to be held in this area for some years!

There will be a corporate challenge first thing in the morning and then in the afternoon the Premier Calendar road race where we will have the country's best domestic professional riders in action with the BC podium truck, Hugh Porter commentating etc. The event will be covered on SKY TV also. Volunteers will be provided with lunch and a nice Twinings "goodie bag" created especially for the volunteers. If there’s any chance that you, or anyone you know, could help for a few hours on Sunday, could you phone or email me as a matter of urgency please. Cheers Gerry Gray 01202 849144 / 0777 552 4890

Photos by kind permission of www.velouk.net



CLUB EVENTS (final round of evening events for 2011)

BOURNEMOUTH JUBILEE 10 23/8 P472 15 STARTERS
1,C ROWE 24.48
2,D FRENCH 24.58
3,S PYE 25.18

(Regular Marshalls include, Peter Warhurst, Neil Mansell,Jackie Prosser, Clive Peskett, Pete Boston, Reg Haskell & Bob Warering)

CC WEYMOUTH 5 23/08 P451 17 STARTERS
1,P DUNN 10.35
2,C LAWSON 10.37
3,B RIGLAR 10.43

NEW FOREST 7 23/08 P163 22 STARTERS
1,J JENKINSON (UTAG-YAMAHA) 14.58 course record
2,R CLARIDGE (CRABWOOD CC) 16.18
3,G LOCK 16.26

BOURNEMOUTH ARROW 10 25/08 P311 32 STARTERS
1,S WHITEWICK (UTAG-YAMAHA) 20.59
2,J JENKINSON (UTAG-YAMAHA) 21.27
3,G ALLAN (G A CYCLES) 22.22
(the Arrow had a difficult start to the year, well done to Julian James,Brian Garrard & George Bolton for ensuring the series went ahead)

Weekly Round-up (Posted from India)

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• Poole-Based mountain biker, Sally Bigham (Topeak-Ergon) has just returned home after a hectic few weeks travelling and racing. A year’s sabbatical from her Bournemouth University job, has given her the time to concentrate on cycling, and the extra training time is starting to pay dividends. Bigham, with Karien Van Jaarsveld, recently won the Cape Epic stage race in South Africa and followed up that victory with second place at the Rocky Mountain Bike Marathon at Riva Del Garda, Italy. The 105 KM course included 3561 meters of climbing with lots of technical descents, made tricky after a few days rain. Sally loves this race and after missing out last year due to injury,was glad to be back. So glad in fact, she had been training in the Italian mountains the week before the event. Bigham was forced to give second best to the Finnish cyclist, Pia Sundstedt, who proved too strong on the long mountain climbs. Bigham’s time of 5hrs 7 was only 3 minutes behind the flying Finn.

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She will now focus on the European and World Championships next month, “I am hoping to improve on my 7th & 8th placing’s last year. After that I will race the Trans Alp, an 8 day stage race in July. I will also be racing in other, big one day marathon events in Austria,Norway and France” Said Sally.

• Warming up for the National Championships in Hartelepool in two weeks’ time, Stephen Whitewick (Utag Yamaha) won the Hampshire RC 10 mile time trial. Recording a time of 20.21, Whitewick finished 21 seconds ahead of team mate and British Best All-Rounder, Julian Jenkinson. Terry Icke (Poole Wh), with 22.19 finished in 8th place. Whitewick will face stiffer competition at the National 10 Champs, with Olympic gold medalist Bradley Wiggins (Sky Pro Cycling) expected to take the title. Other locals in the mix were
J Thacker (vc st Raphael) 22.27, J Chapman (cc Weymouth) 23.10, N Spencer (BJW) 23.34, R Martin (Poole WH) 23.38, T Jeffries (NFCC) 24.49, Judith Martin (PW) 27.50. Claire Day (Born to Bike) won the Ladies race at the Ogmore Valley Wheelers 25. With a time of 1.01.19 on the R25 in Wales, Claire also finished ahead of husband Tim,1.02.48.

This years Moreton Village circuit series kicks off next Thursday, 12th May. Long time promoter, Pete Washington is standing down this year so the series is being run on a Co-Operative bases. All riders hoping to race will be expected to marshall at least one event in the 13 race series. Enough people have already volunteered to officiate at the first race. You can sign up to marshall on the date of your choice on the Series website; moretoncycleraces.org.uk. Racing is under The League International rules with a handicap format. The Moreton circuit is fast and flat with three corners that come round quickly, race distance is about 30 miles/1hr 10m. Entry is on the line with the first group off at 7pm.
Hugo Walters (NFCC) Picked up 4th in the U16s at the Mountbatten Centre, Portsmouth last Saturday, Walters team mate John Heffernan & Steve Moss & Ellie Gilham (Bournemouth Arrow/Hotel Collingwod) were also racing.

Alex Rowe (BJW)


• Rob Jeffries (Poole WH) consistently picks up results on the track, at the Bank Holiday meeting at Palmer Park Velodrome, Reading. Jeffries won the B sprint final and placed 2nd in the Derny Paced race. His team mate Gordon Skillen, however was not so lucky, a crash in the final race of the meeting saw Gordon T Bone a couple of riders. He left some skin on the track but was more concerned about his broken frame. Meanwhile, Alex Rowe (BJW) came off in a downhill MTB event and sustained a broken elbow, (did mine in a RR two years ago and i can tell you its very painful). Apparently Alex hit a tree!!

club events



Poole Wheelers 27km 2/5/11 P433 14 Starters
1, P Jones(BJW) 37.21
2, S Biirtwistle 38.23
3, L Girling 39.39

BJW 10 3/5/11 P303 19 Starters
1, L Piercy (drag2zero) 23.13
2, M Savage 23.42
3, S Mclaughlin 23.51

New Forest CC 10 2/5/11 P337 29 Starters
1, C Humm 24.17
2, B Boardman 24.23
3, R Claridge (Crabwood CC) 24.26

CC Weymouth 10 2/5/11 P451 14 Starters
1, B Riglar 24.36
2, J Thacker (vc St Raphael) 25.13
3, J Glynn 25.18

Poole WH 10 4/5/11 P431 23 Starters
1,G Dighton 23.01
2,S Birtwistle 23.02
3,T Icke 23.08

Bournemouth Arrow 10 5/4/11 P311 26 Starters
1,W.Stephenson 22.29
2,W Newbury(Primera) 22.41
3,N Spencer 23.14