Many thanks go to Adrian, Mark, Matt, Lee and the rest of the good people of Sid Valley CC for giving up their time on this glorious summer’s evening to run the ‘ten’. 16 riders signed on, the conditions were reasonable, with the wind being a crosswind.

Fastest on the night was Luke Osborne (Banbridge CC), settled in now on his new TT machine, who rode the second fastest ride of the series, in a time of 21minutes and 11 seconds. Luke is off to compete in the CTT National 50 Mile TT Championship on Sunday, on a course near Poole in Dorset. ‘Spindata’ currently predicts him a 24^th place of the 130+ competitors with a time of 1:50:5. Good luck Luke, hope all goes well and that you are ‘on one’.

Young local roadman Felix Whetter (Mid-Devon CC) took runner-up spot on 22:59 with Exeter Wheeler’s Gideon Aroussi in third just over a minute back at 24.04.

Good to see EWCC rider Dave Wilkinson back out there, after a long period of struggling with long Covid. Get properly better soon Dave, the SW cyclo-cross season awaits….

Of the 16 who took part, 6 were over the age of 60 . . . . where be the young’uns to?

A reminder that the event on 17^th July is Women and Juniors only. Spread the word.

I will get the updated league table up here tomorrow.

Pete B

Vets. Age Categories: A = 40>44, B = 45>49, C = 50>54, D = 55>59, E = 60>64, F = 65>69, G = 70>74

Here is the table after 6 events. A reminder that a rider’s top 7 performances (as in highest points) will count. There will be end of series prizes for various categories, details to follow.

Thanks go to Cranbrook CC for organising and running this one. Start timekeeper Simon (Rendell) was aided by Rob Barrow on the finish line, with marshalls Matt Pike, Zach Pike, Kate Wilcockson, Liz Rendell, Paul Keatley and Thea Keatley ensuring that all the riders were pointed in the right direction. Thanks folks and hopefully other clubs will come forward next year to help ensure that the series can continue by running an event or two.

Fastest on the night was Lubos Obornik of the organising club on 22.36, with second being Aidan King with another impressive road bike ride on 22.45. Both of these riders had been down to ride the Tavy Whs. 10 on the speedy West Devon A30 course, but roadworks put paid to that event so along with Simon Brown they made a quick divert to the old A30 in the east of the county. Jimmy Richards kept up his steady form to be third whilst Exeter Wheelers took 4th and equal 5th with James Greenaway at 23.45 and Gideon Aroussi exactly a minute slower. And I know Richard Crosby will have been chuffed with upgrading his PB to a new fastest of 28.23, and it’s good to see Dave Fleming of EWCC is still out there with his 71 years. Dougie Parker of Sid Valley is going well this year too . . . . chapeau etc

For the first time there were no female riders, whilst the average age of riders was a sagacious 53 years . . .

The league tale will be posted here sometime tomorrow.