For anyone interested in an organised off-road ride ...
Date: Sunday 5th October 2008
Info on British Heart Foundation’s brand new off road event. The route takes in spectacular views around the Hampshire and Surrey counties. The distance is 26.6 miles with the possibility of doing an extra 4.9 mile extension. You may not consider the mileage challenging but the route involves lots of climbing, twisty, steep wooded single tracks and will require the rider’s full attention!
The extension offers a lovely long, high speed steep descent; you should really be an experienced rider to take up this added loop!
The ride starts and finishes at Bohunt School, Longmoor Road, Liphook, Hampshire GU30 7NY
Entry fee for this event: £ 20.00
Online registration and route map here : www.bhf.org.uk/haslemere
Hearts First Bike Ride Haslemere Off-Road 2008
Cycle Kingdom Series - Race 15 Results
Races held Wednesday 20th August 2008
Two good sized fields, a barbie and about a hundred soldiers camped out around the course brought the 2008 revitalised Eelmore series to a fitting conclusion.
In the miserable weather conditions (with at least 20 punctures over the course of the evening) the 3rds race saw several attempts to forge a successful breakaway but came together up a lengthened final straight for the sprint, with Sam Sturgeon winning convincingly from Gareth Dickinson.
Andy Hibberd took the overall series in the final race by finishing 5th on the night, to round off a calculated masterpiece of gaining 51 points after starting the season as a 4th Cat.
Garry Buttery was first Meudon home in 4th and James Bracey and Mike Lancaster also got into the top ten.
In the E12 once a break went with an AWCycles, an Agisko, a Felt and
3 Meudons it was always going to stay away despite lots of (mainly
unsuccessful) attempts to get across. Tim Elverson continued his remarkable consistency to win the series overall but honourably sat back and let the predicted battle for 5th place develop with Tom Smith taking the long sprint ahead of Jamie Newall but not gaining enough points to steal 5th.
Of the other Meudons in the break Dave Creeggan came in sixth with man in form Dave Larcombe following up his 4th at the previous weekend's Older Man's RR with 7th.
The evening concluded with the presentation of the generous prize list and a chorus of Happy Birthday to Craig for his last year before getting a V on his licence.
E12
1 Tom Smith AWCycles E
2 Jamie Newall VC Meudon 1
3 Boyd Roberts www.agiskovinor.com 2
4 Tim Elverson Felt Racing E
5 Richard Mardle Felt Racing 2
6 David Creeggan VC Meudon 1
7 Dave Larcombe VC Meudon 2V
8 Justin Hoy Felt Racing E
9 Lewis Atkins www.agiskovinor.com 1
10 Darrell Pembroke www.agiskovinor.com 2
11 John Wager Felt Racing E
12 Robert King Reading CC 2
13 Wayne Coombs VC Mountpellier 1
14 Toby Neave Southdown Velo E
15 Alex Peterson AWCycles 1
Overall Classification
3/4
1 Sam Sturgeon Team Terminator 3
2 Gareth Dickson Agiskoviner 3
3 Gavin Morton Godalming Cycles RT 3
4 Garry Buttery VC Meudon 3V
5 Andy Hibberd Pedalon.co.uk 3
6 Mark Cracknell AWCycles.co.uk 3V
7 Paul Troughton Wheelbase/GoreBike Wear 3
8 James Bracey VC Meudon 4
9 Clive Jarvis North Hants RC 4
10 Mike Lancaster VC Meudon 3
Overall Classification
Stuart Morgan wins TT series
Stuart won the twelve week series of events organised by A3CRG, running every Weds from May 21st to 6th Aug. Here's his run down ...
Points were awarded every week depending on your finishing position plus a bonus of 5 pts for every series pb.
We lost a couple to bad weather, so it was your best 6 events that counted in the final tally.
I always hoped that one day mediocrity would rise to the the top.
Check out the scalps here !
http://www.a3crg.co.uk/points.php
Bronze for Hulbert in Nationals
Martin Hulbert finished a fine 3rd in the Veterans National Road Race champs for over 50's on saturday. A strong field competed the 60 mile race held near Rugby (up north somewhere)
Here's Martin's race report ......
In my usual way I soft attacked as soon as the neutralised section was over! this soon came back.
After half a lap and just before the main climb, i sneaked away with another guy and we went well for another lap on our own and was later joined by a group of 7. The nine of us worked well and put over 15 minutes into what was left of the bunch. There was no efforts to break up the group of 9 until i put a serious attack on the main climb, a group of 3 riders came across to me after a few miles and then the bunch after another few miles.
I attacked again on the next steep climb and John French and Gary Hill joined me. With 3 in front we gave it all and fought out the sprint finish between us.
John French 1st
Gary Hill 2nd
Martin Hulbert 3rd
2009 Cycle Kingdom Series - Race 1 Result
Races held Wednesday 22nd April 2009
E12
1 Daniel Duguid Sigma Sport 1
2 Simon Ernest AWCycles 2
4 David Creeggan VC Meudon 1
3 Sam Allen A W Cycle.co.uk 2
5 Tim Elverson Felt Racing E
6 Lewis Atkins Agisko Viner 1
7 Jamie Newall VC Meudon 1
8 Richard Mardle Felt Racing 2
9 James Millard PCA E
10 Martin Smith AWCycles E
11 Andes Christensen Cycle Kingdom Race Team 1
12 Tom Smith AWCycles.co.uk E
13 Pete Wager VC Meudon 1
14 John Wager Felt Racing E
15 Robert King Reading C C 2
Overall Classification
3/4
1 Chris Clark Bang& Olufsen 3
2 Clive Jarvis CC Basingstoke 3
3 Andy Hibberd Pedalon.co.uk 3
4 Jeremy Bishop GS Avanti 3
5 Mark Workman Festival RC 3
6 James Bracey VC Meudon 4
7 Gary Bullock Thames Velo 3
8 Johnathan Maher Sigma Sport 3
9 Mark Westwood Team MK 3
10 Gavin Spiers Reading CC 3
Overall Classification
Youths Race 1
1 Damon King Reading CC D
2 Dominic Day V C Meudon D
Youths Race 1
1 Joe McGuinness Palmer Park Velo E
2 Zac Elverson Felt Racing E
Jamie "King of Dunsfold"
In a fitting flourish to the Dunsfold season Jamie rammed home his dominance by winning the final race of the series despite being surrounded in the break by 3 rampant Wildsiders determined to steal his thunder. The break of 7 went clear following a surge in pace down the headwind section of the course, leaving Jamie and the resurgent Dave Larcombe to fight out the finish on behalf of VCM.
Pos Name Club/Team Cat Time Prime Points
1 Jamie Newall VC Meudon 2 1:14:40 8
2 Simon McNamara Wildside RT 1
3 Mike Hawkins Norwood Paragon CC 1
4 Ashley Holding Wildside RT 2V 8
5 Christopher McNamara Wildside RT E 3
6 David Larcombe VC Meudon 2V 5
7 Toby Neave Southdown Velo E 1
8 Jason Edwards Wildside RT 1 @ 0:35
9 Felix English Team Corridori YA
10 Ken Prince VC Meudon 2 1
