cc Weymouth Club 10

Steve Pink reports on the club 10

The long awaited return of some sunshine brought out a healthy 20 man field to the Monkey World circuit.(p459) With the warming sun, a gentle southern breeze and dry roads hopes were high for some quick times.
Unfortunately the wind died completely and with no lift the whole 10 miles were a bit of a slog. Most people’s times were 30 to 60 seconds down on usual but everyone enjoyed not being wet for once!
There was one person though who didn’t have a great night, Matt Merritt caught some mud coming out of the tight Worgret turn and lost his front wheel. Matt has a damaged radius in his elbow and some healthy road rash that will keep him off of the bike for a few weeks. He is gutted to be missing the start of the Moreton TLI series which he loves so much, but we are all glad that it wasn’t worse.
Matt would like to pass on his thanks to all who helped on the evening including the two ladies living opposite, the car drivers who stopped, the Mud Sweet and Gears riders coming the other way, Mr and Mrs Gould who drove down to find him and the following racers who gave up there times to stop and help (especially the Chairman who gave up on a certain course best despite having a mechanical and only running one gear!), but most of all to Justin who took him to hospital to get checked out.

As for the results:

Julian Thacker, VC St Raphael, took the win in 23:15. Charlie Lawson, CCW, took maximum club points with a 23:50 and the rapidly finding his legs again Greg Parker, CCW, finished 3rd with 24:10

Local Cycling News

• Win with “minimum effort” was the strategy for Will Stephenson (Bournemouth Arrow/Hotel Collingwood as the 16 year old added the Southern Region Circuit race championships to his growing list of victories. He has already won the Southern junior road race title. “This is only Stephenson’s second year of racing and his priority as a first year junior is to learn how to race.” said Alan Mcrae, Stephenson’s vastly experienced coach. Mcrae went on to say: “His first target race is the Junior RR Champs in Co Durham on July 3rd. He then has a break, with a second target at the end of August, the Junior Track Champs, Will is riding the distance events. Then 2 days later the Junior Tour of Wales.

The arrow youngster is a great prospect and will get stronger with more racing in his legs. However two punctures in the last three races have hampered his progress, with no neutral service at the Mike Rutty Memorial RR in Bristol it was "end of race"!! “I have a lot of races to fit around the exams” said Will. (Mcrae worked with Garmin –Cervelo professional, Dan Lloyd, early in his career)

MORETON VILLAGE EVENING SERIES 09/06/2011
Proving unstoppable in the sprint, Jason Eastwood (Hargroves Cycles) powered his way to another comfortable victory at Moreton village, down in Dorset. Run under The League International rules with a handicap format, the scratch group relentlessly chased down the groups in front.

The race came together with three laps of the flat, open road circuit left. All attempts to make a break came to nothing and with a lap to go everyone knew what was coming.

In previous weeks Eastwood has had help from teammates. He was on his own this evening but the result was the same. Experienced roadman/sprinter Roland Tilley (ridebike.co.uk) took second place with Julian Thacker (VC ST Raphael) third for the second week running.

Provisional Result
1, JASON EASTWOOD (HARGROVES CYCLES)
2, ROLAND TILLEY (RIDEBIKE.CO.UK)
3, JULIAN THACKER (VC ST RAPHAEL)
4, STEVE DRING (ECHELON-ROTOR)
5, ANDY BOYD (REVO RACING)
6, WILL STEPHENSON (BOURNEMOUTH ARROW/HOTEL COLLINGWOOD)
7, JOHN WICKHAM (CC WEYMOUTH)
8, ROBERT KOPPENHOL (DORSET ROUGH RIDERS)

More than 300 riders were in action at Crow Hill near Ringwood in round 3 of the Southern Area XC MTB Series. Whilst Steven James (Hargroves Cycles) won the elite men’s race, local interest was centered on the veteran’s event. However things did not go smoothly for the home riders. In- form Darren Shepherd (Primera) suffered a puncture and had to carry his bike to the finish

and early leader Mark Chadbourne (ridebike.co.uk) had the equivalent on his tubeless tyres. Simon Willats of the ride team did salvage some local pride with 4th place.

In the supporting races, James Horton (Primera) won the sport event, leading from start to finish.

Stuart King (ride bike) was pleased to finish 3rd in the masters race. King had spent much of the race in 2nd place before being overtaken on the last lap.

Race Face!!

• . Julia Shaw (drag2zero) from Bramshaw in the New Forest won her fourth National 25 mile Time Trial title. Shaw successfully defended her crown on a windswept course in Devon. She has already won the 10 mile title and is aiming to be selected for the World Championships in Copenhagen in September.

CLUB EVENTS

BOURNEMOUTH JUBILEE 30KM P426 07/06 17 STARTERS
1, S McLAUGHLIN 41.65
2, J CLEMAS 41.58
3,I DIAPER 43.39


NEW FOREST CC 25 P164 07/06 16 STARTERS
1,K KING (SOTONIA CC) 57.35
2,H BULSRODE (SOUTHAMPTON RC) 57.39
3,P ASHLEY (TEAM FEAT) 0.1.16

CC WEYMOUTH 10 P459 07/06 14 STARTERS
1 J CHAPMAN 23.33
2,D CRITCHEL 23.44
3,J GLYNN 24.22

POOLE WHEELERS 10 P 431 15 STARTERS 08/06
1,T ICKE 22.44
2,G DIGHTON 22.46
3,S BIRTWISTLE 23.17

BOURNEMOUTH ARROW 10 P311 09/06 24 STARTERS
1,J GILFILLAN (TEAMFEAT) 22.07
2,D PICKERING (BJW) 22.49
3,K KING (SOTONIA) 23.08