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)

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With series leader, Jason Eastwood (Hargroves Cycles) not riding, Steve Dring (Team Echelon-rotor) claimed the honours in round 8 at Moreton. The race came together with just over 2 laps remaining.

The usual lull was followed by a flurry of attacks, none of which succeeded, until Dring went with a mile to go. Gregg Shrosbree (Merida) liked what he saw and jumped across to the escaping Echelo-Rotor rider. The pair held a gap to the line, with the smart money being on the more experienced Dring.

Luke Gray (Hargroves Cycles) won the tight sprint for third place. Once again bright evening sunshine had greeted the fifty plus field, with organiser Pete Washington opting for 55 mins plus 1 lap instead of the usual eleven 3 mile laps.

1, STEVE DRING (TEAM ECHELON-ROTOR)
2, GREGG SHROSBREE (MERIDA)
3, LUKE GRAY (HARGROVES CYCLES)
4, ANDREW BOYD (REVO RACING)
5, JOHN HAYES (RIDEBIKE.UK)
6, ROLAND TILLEY (RIDEBIKE.UK)
7, JORDAN WADE (POOLE WH)
8, MATT MILNER (UNATT)
9, JULIAN THACKER (VC ST RAPHAEL/WAITES CONTRACTS)
10, BRETT EDBROOK (UNATT)
11, ANTHONY BIRKBECK (BJW)

• Dave Dent (wightlink RT) got the better of midlands visitor Jamie Scott (Colbert Racing Team) by 23 secs and set a benchmark time for the new Wareham course. Dent recorded a time of 1.10.17 for the Hilly circuit. Paul Matthews (UTAG-YAMAHA) 1.11.06 was third The Bournemouth Jubilee promotion was a dry run for the final round of the Rudy Project National series organized by the Poole Wheelers in October. Credit must go to race organiser,Les Pick who put in a lot of work to make this race a little different, including a 5 man team award, with the Poole Wheelers picking up the generous £20 each award.
Tery Icke (Poole wh) clocked a seasons best 53.37 in the A3CRG 25 on the Liphook course. Icke, who had ridden the lumpy 32 the previous day, was backed up by Leighton Girling 54.20 & Richard Davidson 54.23 on what turned out to be a float night. Stephen Whitewick (utag-yamaha) won with 49.32

The Mayor of Bournemouth, Councilor Chris Rochester, officially opened the new track with the ringing endorsement of former Olympic and Commonwealth Games rider Geoff Cooke. Thankfully the "suits" were outnumbered by the "skinsuits" and it was a great opening celebration.

Full details of all coaching & training times are on this blog and on www.bournemouth.cc

CLUB EVENTS
BOURNEMOUTH JUBILEE 10 P311 28/06 26 STARTERS
1,D LLOYD (GARMIN-CERVELO) 21.03
2,J CLEMAS 22.58
3,M SAVAGE 22.59

NEW FOREST CC 15 P165 28/06 24 STARTERS
1,C HUMM 35.48
2,K KING(SOTONIA CCC) 36.05
3,J HEFFERNAN 36.14

CC WEYMOUTH 18 P451 12 STARTERS
1,B RIGLAR 47.25
2,J CHAPMAN 48.21
3,J GLYNN 50.30

(In both the Forest and Weymouth events, a rider punctured after signing on and was DNS)


POOLE WHEELERS 10 29/06 P431 20 STARTERS
1,T ICKE 23.02
2,S BIRTWISTLE 23.04
3,R DAVIDSON 23.20

BOURNEMOUTH ARROW 10 P311 30/06 20 STARTERS
1,D PICKERING (BJW) 22.24
2,B BOARDMAN (NFCC) 23.27
3,A MAYFIELD 24.09

And Finally a French Letter;

Last Friday 24th June I was third at Wachterbeke. 48 km 7 laps.
1st René Colman. (St. Niklaas)
2nd Ted Battersby (From Yorkshire)
3rd Trevor Fenwick (Bournemouth Jubilee)

On Monday 27th June I was second at Gavare 49 km 7 laps.
1st René Colman (St Niklaas)
2nd Trevor Fenwick (Bournemouth Jubilee)
3rd Daniel Nuytink.

Both events were in Belgium and for over 7O years of age, and in the Ghent area.

They have altered the rules this month. Instead of racing against over 72s they have dropped it to over 70s; which means I am giving away eleven years.
The over 68s still start with us, so the racing is no harder, just more difficult for me to get high up in my group’s prize list.
Bringing in the over 70s brings in Tour de France winner Lucian Van Impe, who you may have heard of, plus some other new lads.
His cousin Freddy Van Impe at 68 also rides with us and is going better than Lucian.
In both the events above, they started the 60 to 68 group with us; which makes it hard for me, but somehow the judges are able to sort out the finishing lists with three different races and over 60 riders.
Prizes in my event cover the first 15 and in the others the first 25, but I rarely hear any complaints.
The majority of riders are World class in my events. Tour de France stages, placings in World masters or Belgian championships.
I came off in an event three weeks ago, and although I was not hurt, I wrecked a carbon fibre frame. It has taken a couple of weeks to sort out another bike and myself.
These events are well marshalled. The marshals have Police training and authority to stop traffic. It is rolling road closure. I found out this weekend that all marshals get 16€, a lunch pack, and two bottles of beer.
At least it shows appreciation.
René Coleman who won both events above is the next oldest to me at 75. He retired last year, and the lads decided to let him win his last race.
He turned up this year with a new car, new bike and absolute flying form!
Best wishes,
Trevor Fenwick

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