After a stunning ride at the Mallory Park circuit in Leicestershire, NW rider Ian Bibby took third place behind two international riders to take 50 national trophy points and go into the next round at Bradford’s Peel Park wearing both the green jersey as U23 series leader and the yellow overall series leader. Bibby sprinted […]
Whilst the top NW riders battled it out at Mallory Park in the National Trophy (see separate story), Matlock CC visitor Lee Shunburne made off with first place in the Liverpool Mercury ‘cross at Stadt Moers. Short of a Notts and Derby League race to ride with the National Trophy race in nearby Leicestershire, Shunburne […]
Strong winds didn’t deter a total of 91 riders at Otterspool Park on Saturday. The senior race saw an eventful battle between Dave Haygarth (Wheelbase) and Nathan Millar (Ipswich BC), who both forged ahead early in the race. Millar failed to take full advantage of a 40 second lead gained when Haygarth punctured mid way […]
The Stadt Moers cross later this month looks like a fast course – using pretty much the same route as the first Stadt Moers event last season. John Stanistreet’s sent in this route map so you can all get visualising it to gain that extra second or two on the day !!
Just a bit of experimenting with the wonders of Flickr, where we store our photos. Click ‘more’ below to browse all our photos to date by thumbnail and click on them to see the full size image.
Here’s some photos from Jon Williams. Full results now in below (click ‘More’). The first of Macclesfield Wheelers’ two annual cyclo-cross events, incorporating the Post Office national championships, was organised by Mark Bethell on Sunday 5th Nov and held in the south park Macclesfield. 87 lined up for the main event but prior to this […]
Travelling the long distance to Ipswich didn’t prevent a fantastic day out for the North West riders, in the second round of the National Trophy. A family double saw Roy Hunt (right) and daughter Amy (left) take wins in the V50 and women’s races. Amy’s first national Trophy win was a sweet victory after a […]
Dave Brailsford claimed his first win of the season and Horwich CC’s first senior cyclocross win for some time in Saturday’s East Liverpool Wheelers promotion at Ottterspool Park. Adrian Dalgleish and Stuart Green finished second and third behind Brailsford, who seems to be regaining his form after an early season illness. In the Youth race, […]
The first event at a new venue and a very succesful promotion for Eastlands Velo. Top honours in the eight lap senior race went to Ian Bibby (Science in Sport, pictured left), who, after an eventful race managed to relegate long-time race leader Rob Jebb (Wheelbase) into second place by seven seconds. Jebb had led […]
We’ve got the forum up and running again. It needed to be taken down because of a deluge of automated spam but the technological side of this is now hopefully resolved. To use the forum, you must register on the site using this link Any forum help or issues, please flag these up by posting […]
A great day’s racing for 93 riders on a short but fast course that had everything! Three events produced three very convincing winners, and some time gaps associated with the more testing ‘cross courses around! Stuart Reid managed to consolidate his very fast start to take the honours for the promoting team in the senior […]
Round one of the National Trophy series took place on Sunday 8th October at a sunny and super-fast Pittville Park in Cheltenham. Here’s a fine set of photos of the senior event from Ray Pugh and Ian Packer (click image on left). NW result of the day came for Jonny McEvoy (Kinesis UK, pictured right), […]
