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.