By Tim Costello

Road racing results

A bumper crop of results in the last week.
Toby Neave had another win. This time at Dunsfold. Well done Toby! This came after a 4th place at Dunsfold and was followed up by another 2nd place at Portsmouth. Toby is lying second overall in the Portsmouth series and was in the top three at Dunsfold.
We had a good representation at Goodwood. It was a great atmosphere. A shame the Goodwood staff are still as surly and unhelpful as ever.
We had four in the elite race at Goodwood which is the highest for some time. Toby and myself made the front group when the race split into two. Unfortunately we were outnumbered by Felt riders and everyone seemed to be marking Toby. Toby was 12th, me 14th, Shaun Smart 24th and Andy Page 28th.
Richard Bevan was 36th in the 3rd cat race. Eugene Bardwell and Geoff Farrell rode the 4th cat race. Geoff making his road racing debut, I believe. Well done Geoff.
I'm afraid I don't know the youth results as they have not been published but Alderney and Erin Baker made their debuts at Goodwood.
Mark Warrington was 6th at Hove Park in the 4th cat race.

Time trial results

We had five starters in the Bognor open 10 with Shaun Smart fastest of our contingent in 22:12 for 11th place. Pete McGuiness went round in 22:34, Mike Miles in 23:16 and Angus Peel in 24:24.
Shaun went about a minute faster in the latest Bognor club 10 to win in 21:37 with Mike Miles pipping Pete McGuiness this time. In all we had 12 competitors. A third of the field.

Angmering youth series

We are still making our presence felt in the Angmering youth series. In round 8 we had Declan Inglis 8th overall on points, Conrad Dinwiddy 13th and James Gleeson 15th.
In round 9 we had Declan 4th overall, Joseph Marchant 5th, Adam Cooke 7th and James Gleeson 17th.

New members

Welcome to new members Kieran Kinsella from Selsey, Simon McGee from Chichester, Adam Cooke from Chichester, Jo Gray from West Wittering, James and Tim Gleeson from Chichester and Graham Davies from Lavant.

Forthcoming events

There are races for all categories at Guildford town centre on the 8th of July. A fantastic night out. As winner in 1984 of the first ever Guildford town centre race I speak with some authority!

By Tim Costello.

Angmering report

I popped along to Angmering on Monday night just in time to miss the start of the first race and tell Christine that the yellow jersey had to change hands. Oh yes, we have yellow jerseys too!
My main purpose was to try and match youths without kit to fitting kit. It doesn't help when some of the labels have faded. We had a good turn out of Declan Inglis, Joseph Marchant, Conrad Dinwiddy and new members Jamie Gleeson and Adam Cooke.
I was also able to distribute Montezumas chocolates to the poor and needy youth cyclists of Sussex (and beyond). That went down very well!
Both Declan and Joseph won races before the rain started. Only very lightly, but the worst possible conditions in terms of slippiness. First to fall was Joseph who fell quite hard before another lad joined him. Wisely the evening was called off which was a great shame because it was bone dry on the drive home.

For sale

I have re-opened the For Sale page of the website for business. There are a couple of complete bikes for sale at the moment. Contact me if you want to add any items.

Racing round up

Toby Neave was second at Portsmouth on Saturday and has regained his elite category. Well done Toby.
Mark Warrington was in action twice at Portsmouth finishing 10th in the 4th cat race and then riding the 3rd cat race.
Southdown Velo dominated the Bognor 10 on Thursday with Toby winning in 21.22 with Shaun Smart second in 22.14. We had 17 entrants out of 36 starters!!! Well done everyone.
Dave Pothecary was our fastest in the Hants RC 10 on Tuesday finishing 6th in 25:45.

Racing at Goodwood

There is racing for all categories including youths at Goodwood on Sunday, 21 June. Details here. There is a separate race for women. We have some talented females in the club who would surprise a few people.

More routes online

I took a party of about 10 on a guided tour of the Blackdowns on Sunday. By the end of the day I had completed 4,200 feet of climbing with both passes of the Blackdowns being traversed. I have loaded the map of my route here on BikeHike. If you log in as southdownvelo with the password of southdownvelo you can search for routes I have created, or create some more.

By Tim Costello ...

Divisional championships

Congratulations to Toby Neave on his storming ride in the divisional championships last Sunday. Whilst most of us were enjoying a pleasant jaunt in the countryside, at the beach or generally avoiding too much hard work, Toby was riding 80 miles on the hottest day of the year on the hilly Tenterden course in Kent. Toby finished in fifth place which is a truly excellent result. Judging by the 'photos (here) it looks like a lot of people dropped out. Results here.
Toby writes ... "The first climb of the race saw a group of riders go clear, me included. Out of the 12 of us this also included 3 sigma sport riders (they do the prems). We worked well together for 3 laps, then a group of 7 came across. 2 riders slipped away (1 from sigma), but with 4 laps to go i decided to save my energy and hide at the back of the group. With 2 to go myself and Steve Calland lit the fireworks and split the group up, then we got across to the 2 ahead. With 1 lap to go 3 more came across, including gary dodd, some irish fella, and jaco ehlers. These riders have been winning on the road fairly regularly so i knew i had my work cut out. On the penultimate climb i put a dig in but got no-where, then with 5 miles to go i attacked hard and quickly got a gap. Unfortunatly i got pulled back, then Calland counter attacked and they let him go. The final time up the main climb dodd and ?????? (name to be inserted when i see the results) attacked but my legs seized up. They rode off to contest silver and bronze, whilst i was pipped for 4th by Andy betts from sigma sport.

It was a super tough race, harder than anything else i've ridden this year bar the jock wadley (which was basically a premier calendar). The av speed was in excess of 26.5 mph, not bad considering the cross winds and climbs! I'm really happy with the way that i rode, although maybe if i followed Calland when he attacked i would have finished in the medals. Who knows, that's the good thing with road racing, it doesn't matter how strong you, are at the end of the day the most tactical person wins."

Angmering results

I'm indebted to Mike Marchant for supplying the results from Angmering on Monday night. Declan Inglis, Joseph Marchant and new members Erin and Alderney Baker all rode.
Mike writes ...
"4 lap scratch - Cat D&E - New members Erin 4th and Alderney 7th
6 lap scratch - Cat C - unfortunately Declan crashed when in a good position. Carried on with the evening's races once Jez had fixed a suspected rolled tyre!
8 lap scratch - Cat A&B - Joseph 3rd
4 lap H/cap - Cat D&E - Erin 5th and Alderney 6th
6 lap H/cap - Cat C - Declan 3rd
8 lap H/cap - Cat A&B - Joseph 3rd
6 lap scratch - Cat D&E - Erin 7th and Alderney 6th
8 lap scratch - Cat A&B&C - Declan 4th and Joseph missed this combined event (probably my fault for not paying attention!)
4 lap H/cap - Cat D&E - Erin 5th and Alderney 7th
6 lap H/cap - Cat C - Declan 2nd
6 lap H/cap - Cat A&B - Joseph 5th "

Kalas 2-day

Toby and I are seriously considering riding the Kalas 2-day in Somerset (West of Taunton) over the weekend 20-21 June. On the saturday there is a 1.6KM TT, 20KM TTT, 1hour circuit race all based on Ilton circuit which is a falt closed circuit. Sunday the road race is at Somerton and is 100KM. Anyone interested let me know. Closing date is 13 June. No entries on the line.

Retro - VC Noviomagus in 1971