A slightly depleted team of 3 riders will take part in the Ryedale GP (the next round of the Premier Calendar Series) on the 7th June. With Richard Meadows away racing in Belgium, Dan Smith, Simon Thomas and guest rider Shane Leadley will be taking on the bigger teams on last year’s national championship [...]
After the steep, bumpy, rocky, rooty grin enducing nature of my last mountain bike race it was back to the road for the Arthur Caygill Tropy Road Race, part of the Richmond Cycling Meet 2009. 3 days of competetive and non competetive cycling over the May bank holiday supported by Velo29. Saturday was the 5 [...]
All good intentions of an up to date blog entry went out of the window, though a friend had a laptop, laying down is far too appealing after a few days! The tour got off to a bad start, was well down in the prologue and the team time trial two days after that was [...]
A mountain bike race should be a test of fitness and technical ability, basically the ability to ride very fast over tough, demanding, technical terrain. Quite a few courses in the UK fail to meet this criteria (in my humble opinion) but Dalby Forest met this criteria with flying colours.
The course has short, hard climbs, [...]
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