Large Ridley Triton frame for sale

For Sale, Ridley Triton aluminium frame and full carbon fork - uncut steerer. Size Large. Mudguard eyes and clearance. About four years old and in pretty decent condition. Metallic grey colour. £60.

I have many of the parts to build this bike eg bars, stem, seatpost, chainset and more. A deal to be done on all these. Give me a ring if interested. Jim Morris. 01428 713935.

1st Oct @ Hillingdon - prizes for 4ths, youths, women

Any of the VC Meudon 4th cats missing Dunsfold and looking for another opportunity to race might want to try the Redhill promotion 'Cycling Nuts" at Hillingdon on the 1st of October. There are also youth and a women's race.

http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/64732/Cycling-Nuts---an-afternoon-of-racing-at-Hillingdon

There's some good prizes on offer - here's the promoter's explanation!:

"Calling all cycling nuts….here’s your chance for glory

Everybody tells you that you’re Cycling Nuts and there’s nothing wrong with that.

But as Cycling Nuts go, where are you on the nutty ladder? Are you just mildly nuts or do you stand on the highest rung, being graded as completely nuts?

Well here’s a good way to find out because now you and your club can once again be officially certified as the biggest load of Cycling Nuts out there.

There are prizes worth a total of £300….so do please come and race.


Can you spell out the details?

Well, yes. On Saturday 1 October there will be youth races at Hillingdon cycle circuit starting at 1.15pm. In the three youngest age groups, every rider will collect points and the club with the most points wins the title of “the biggest load of Cycling Nuts”.

How will the points system work?

Well, if there are 20 riders are in your age category, for example, then the winner gets 20 points while the second-placed finisher gets 19 points and so on all the way down to the one point earned by the rider finishing in 20th place. That means everyone counts. You all pick up points for your club.

If there were 15 riders in the next age category, say, then the points on offer would range from 15 down to 1.

So the more riders we come with, the better our chances?

Exactly.

In all, there will be prize money of £300 for us, but how is it split out?

The £300 is split between £220 for the age groups Under 12, Under 10 and Under 8 leaving the £80 balance for the riders competing in the Under 16 and Under 14 age groups.

OK. How will the £220 be split?

The top three clubs will share in the total:

first: £150
second: £40
third: £30


What is there for the two older categories: U14 and U16?

In the past we found that it was chaotic running all the five age groups at once. We found that splitting riders into groups and running two races made life easier for Steve May and his team of eagle-eyed judges who have to do the totting up.

In the three youngest categories, riders tend to split and finish individually, so that’s not bad to judge.

However the U14 and U16 get tactical and often finish in a packs and that’s why Steve has asked for them to be allocated to different races, so we have U14 in the first race and U16 in the following event…please note they are not both in the second race!!

What do they stand to collect?

A total of £80, split between four individual winners:

winner under-14 boy £20
winner under-14 girl £20
winner under-16 boy £20
winner under-16 girl £20"

Gabriel wins nationals!

Outstanding result from Gabriel Martinez in the British Cycling/CTT national time trial championships at the weekend in Sawtry, Cambridgeshire. While Sky's Alex Dowsett won the main event there were also races for women, juniors, u23s, and over 130 masters riders competing in different age group categories.

Gabriel powered home in 45:22 to win by eleven seconds in front of Jon Simpkins of Drag2zero in the masters C age group.

Centrefold of the month

Mr September is Derek George. This photo was taken by Martin Hulbert in Petersfield "after the Yately boys had finished with him".

Our man at Goodwood reports....

Goodwood commissaire Keith Brooks reports:

"Lured out by sunshine a number of Meudoners rode the Surrey League Goodwood races on Sunday…..in the fourths Tom Hicks looked very comfortable and put in a few hard bursts before finishing in the bunch just behind Luke Harris riding his first ever race and having no problems at all. Luke said he “bloody loved it”.

In the 3rds there were 7 from the Meudon; it was a pretty negative affair with a few half hearted attacks until three guys (all vets!!) got away with a couple of laps to go and held off the bunch by a handful of seconds at the end. I think we need to get our “team caps” on for next week and try to enliven the race and get our strong riders away instead of waiting for the bunch sprint lottery. We need some more riders to help, there must be loads of thirds in the club who would be capable of winning next week.

In the E12 event Paul Pickup went from the gun and that set the tone of the race which was flat out…a small field of less than 30 it soon broke up into two groups with the strongest in the front and it seemed all over but the bunch of just about 12 riders really got themselves organized and it regrouped. Didn’t last long and they were off again with a group which could have left from the shop on a Sunday morning club run consisting of Paul, Anders, Jez, Dave C, and Roger went again. Roger’s lack of racing this year took its toll and just when it looked like it was coming together he dropped back to a chasing group only to see his mates take off again. Come to think about it, just like a Sunday clubrun. They stayed away and Mr Hoy got his win number 18 of the year just in front of the Cycle Kingdom duo. If only the 3rds race was as active as that, real racing and a pleasure to be in the following car.

Thanks to Jamie and the Corley team for organsing the days racing…Jamie, if you ever need some helpers I know a good club!

Next week there is more at Goodwood, 4ths @ 9.30, Ladies 9.31, 3rds @ 11.00 and E12 at 12.45.Full details on the SL website. If you are preparing for La Picard or the Meudon race on the 11th then its a good opportunity to get some fast safe miles in and earn valuable Surrey League points for the club."

Like gadgets? Want to be on the telly?

Bullseye Productions are currently looking for people to take part in a brand new SKY1 HD Series all about technology & gadgets. The show will feature a team of gadget experts, ready to address every day people’s technology based problems, queries and desires.

For one of our episodes we’re specifically looking for a group of cyclists (3-4) to help us test out some of the latest cycling related tech on the market. There will be two days filming involved one early September and another during September or October. It will be great fun, so please get in contact ASAP!

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