Local rider Andrew Tinsley (Onimpex Bio-racer RT) took second to Olympics rider Rob Hayles in the Elswick RR , just pipping Andy on the line , while in the same race Stephen Clark finished in the bunch in a field of international former international and pro riders.. in the 3rd & 4th cat race race martin lyon finished comfortable in the bunch

1 Robert Hayles Team Halfords Bikehut
2 Andrew Tinsley Onimpex Bio-racer RT
3 Matt Cronshaw Kinesis UK
4 Christopher Burrows Kuota - Biemme - Spinergy
5 Kit Gilham Kinesis UK
6 Matthew Stephens Sigma Sport, Specialized, Sportfu

The Terry Dolan Southportcc Schoolpersons races
FINAL OVERALL

 Frank Morgan Memorial Road Race
   1 Anthony Greenhalgh Maxgear RT
    2 Keith Jones Birkenhead North End CC/The Bike Factory
    3 Paul Thursfield Crewe Clarion Wheelers
    4 Tony Parkinson Rochdale Triathlon Club
    5 Nick Shaughnessy Science In Sport.com
    6 Stephen Clark Southport CC

Girvan 3 Day" Scotland "

Great Team Performances by the southport based Kinesis road team in Scotland..
Matt Cronshaw takes podium 3rd placing as well as a 5th placing on the last stage. Tom Last taking 10th overall.
The Team prize they finished 2nd overall after the 4 stages.Beating many top UK Teams..for full report and results clickhere

League international. calendar (Click)

Cycling Development North West’s prize presentation
takes place at the Priory Cafe in Scorton on Sunday
December 2nd, at 12p.m. 2007
Jim Henderson Southport CC is 3/4 cat points Winner

Harry Hall dies, 79... oct. 2007

Former Great Britian Team Mechanic and Shop owner died at his home on Sunday. Harry Hall is best known for being the first person on the scene when tom simpson collapsed and died of exhaustion during the 1967 Tour De France on the slopes of Mont Ventoux during the 13th stage.

Harry Hall opened his bike shop in 1957. Hall was also a noted bike mechanic, and provided back-up services to proand am. races from the 1950s onwards.
Harry retired from the day to day running of the shop in 1989.  Following his retirement Harry Hall devoted more time to racing, becoming a noted veteran cyclist, winning numerous medals, including a world championships medal.
The funeral will be held Wednesday November 7th at St George's church, New Mills, Stockport.

Jim henderson Southport cc
wins Bashall Eaves 3/4 road race

1 Jim Henderson Southport CC
2 Michael Cuming Macclesfield Wheelers
3 David Genders Wills Wheels CC
4 Steven Ward Rossendale Road Club
5 Graeme Goulding Maxgear RT
6 Paul Johnson Yasumitso Schlapp
7 Paolo Brucciani Lune RCC
8 Anthony Allan Macclesfield Wheelers
9 Mark Beynon Lancashire RC
10 Dean Hitchings FP Mailing Cycle Team

elites,1st,2nds

1.Gilham Clifton CC/ Cycle Heaven
2. James Williamson Wills Wheels CC
3. Pete Williams Kinesis UK
4. Mark Lovatt Sportscover/Planet X
5. Mathew Cronshaw Science in Sport/Trek
6. Adrian Bird Echelon-Cycles.co.uk
7. Gareth Hewitt KFS Special Vehicles Sunday Bicycles
8. Jamie Burgan Rutland CC
9. Jimmy Wright Preston Wheelers
10. Neil Swithenbank ABC Centreville

Tour of Britian passing through Southport

Southport based racing team Kinesis rider
Johnny McEvoy
Wins Junior Tour of Wales

This august bank holiday weekened saw Johnny McEvoy
win the overall junior tour, a week after taking silver in
the National junior road race champs. He took the
leaders jersey on stage 4
with a victory and kept it well in a tough final stage.
full report go to BC website.

Southport's cycling Clubs Jim Henderson Won the Bickerstaffe road race from a break away of 3 riders, team mates Stephen Clark finished 8th and martin Lyon 12th

Win for Team Kinesis's pete Williams in Belgium
20 year old Pete Williams picked up a fine victory
over the weekend in Belgium. From a
strong field, he broke away with a unibet rider with 20km
to go and the 2 stayed away to the finish where
Williams got the better in the uphill sprint.
Win Number 2 for pete williams
Following his win the previous week, Pete continued his good form taking the race on the Belgian coast at Blackenberg in fine style, breaking away on his own in last 6 miles, once again beating a strong field which included the Belgian elite champion.

pictures from
the Tour prologue (Eddie Obrien) -London

Former Southport CC member Tom Diggle Wins in Donore

several international riders had a final tune-up before the five dayTour of Ireland when they competed in the Brendan Campbell Memorial in Donore with Tom Diggle (Recycling.co.uk)
taking the first place


As early as 10 kilometres into thet first stage of the tour disaster struck the team when a motor bike took out 19 year old Tom Diggle. Tom was 'clipped' by the motorbike panniers and brought down..

Tom was ok and got back on his bike and finished the day in the peloton tired but in good spirits.

LIVERPOOL MERCURYS Dave McGowen won the
first senior race to be held on the Litherland sports
park circuit. southport Cycling Club's Stephen Clark finished 5th
.
The next event will be held on Thursday 16th August. Start 1800

CDNW Road Race League Event 11 -
Lakes RC - Ulverston

EL/1/2/3

1 Stephen Feeney Chester RC
2 David Williams Kuota Biemme
3 Craig Battersby Lancashire RC
4 James Wright Preston Whls
5 Mark McNally Liverpool Mercury (Dolan) CC
6 Leigh Cowell Kuota Biemme
7 Michael Marshall University of Birmingham CC
8 Christopher Burrows FP Mailing Cycle Team
9 Jimmy Froggatt Wills Wheels Cycling Club
10 Steven Burnett MK Cycles
11 Gary Adamson FP Mailing Cycle Team

J/3
1 Shane O'Neill
2 Adam Pinder Blackburn & District CTC
3 Dean Hitchings FP Mailing Cycle Team
4 Anthony Allan Macclesfield Wheelers
5 Brian Pearson Lakes RC
6 David Crawley Border City Wheelers CC
7 Adam Longworth Cleveleys RC
8 John Guy
9 Adrian Dalgleish Lune RCC
10 Matthew Limacher Rhyl Cycling Club

Blackpool Grand Prix – Elite Men’s Circuit Race
Gordon McCauley (PlowmanCraven-Evans) Won the Blackpool Grand Prix, Recycling rider Tom Diggle took a deserved 2nd place, with his breakaway mate Paul Oldham taking the third and final podium position.

From the left, Oldham, McCauley, Diggle

North West Regional Championship - 138km

Smithfields, Cumbria; Hosted by Border City Wheelers

Result

1. Mark Lovatt Sportscover/Planet X
2. Pete Williams Kinesis UK
3. Andy Tinsley Onimpex Bio-racer RT
4. James Williamson Wills Wheels CC
5. Stephen Feeney Chester RC
6. David Everett Team Probikekit.com
7. Rob Pugh Liverpool Century RC
8. Neil Swithenbank ABC Centreville
9. Stuart Reid Wheelbase
10. Andrew Guy Kuota/Biemme/Spinergy

3,4,W Race Regional B 100km

1. Liam Wild MK Cycles To Follow
2. David Genders Wills Wheels CC
3. John Bellamy Lancashire RC
4. Jason Tonge Lancashire RC
5. Paul Smith Seamons CC
6. Steve Davies Onimpex Bio-racer RT
7. John Kent Birkenhead Norh End CC
8. Stephen Clark Southport CC
9. John Gibson Lancashire RC
10. Eldon Garnett Ribble Valley CRC

CDNW Road Race League
Janus RC Lach Dennis

1 Robert Hayles Team KLR
2 Andrew Martin FP Mailing Cycle Team
3 Andrew Guy Kuota Biemme
4 Paul Standen Comedy Superteam
5 Andrew Tinsley Onimpex Bio-racer RT
6 John Doherty V S Cycles, Brighouse
7 Christopher Burrows FP Mailing Cycle Team
8 Lewis Craven Wheelbase/Gore Bike Wear
9 Christopher Anderson Lakes RC
10 Gary Spencely Lakes RC
11 Dennis Lang Clayton Velo
12 Graham Payne Preston CC
13 Stephen Clark Southport CC
14 Denby Sinclair Sportscover - Planet X

Ron O'Brien Memorial Road Race

1 Martin Freeman Alpha RC/Team Corley Cycles
2 Paul Bell Doncaster Whls CC
3 Chris Diggle Southport CC
4 Rob Pugh Liverpool Century RC
5 James McNally St Helens CRC/D.Sparrow Plumbing & Heating Services
6 Michael Cuming Macclesfield Wheelers
7 Adrian Lawrence Lancashire RC
8 Sam Freeman Team KLR
9 Andrew Williams Cwmcarn Paragon RC
10 Andrew Tinsley Onimpex Bio-racer RT

Stephen clark from southport cycling club took 8th place in the Aughton road race, while in the Cheshire 2 Day Tom Diggle was third overall Results for the Cheshire 2 day clickhere

Aughton "Bycycle Magic" Road Race

1 Stuart Reid Wheelbase/Gore Bike Wear
2 Daniel Stevens Liverpool Century RC
3 Mark Tweedie
4 Stuart Alderson Manchester Whlrs Club
5 Justin Robinson MTS Cycle Sport Over
6 Andrew Mitchell Ellis Briggs RT
7 Richard Lister M.I. Racing/EAS/Thule/Ozone/Shimano/Vittoria/Giro/Sunvil/Fibrax
8 Stephen Clark Southport CC
9 Simon Mumford Lune RCC
10 Mark Thaxter

Results for the NorthWest Regional Youth Circuit Championships

Saturday 28th April

dFrank Morgan Memorial Road Race


 1 Rob Pugh Liverpool Century RC
 2 Mark Dziobon Lancashire RC
 3 David Hitchen New Brighton CC
 4 Roy Holmes Hewitt Racing
 5 Alistair Rutherford Wills Wheels Cycling Club
 6 John Watchman ABC Centreville
 7 Matthew Robinson All Terrain Cycles
 8 Christopher Burrows
9 Andrew Tinsley Onimpex Bio-racer RT
10 John Bellamy Lancashire RC
11 Chris Diggle Southport CC
12 Stephen Clark Southport CC
13 James Moss MTS Cycle Sport
14 James Keenan Lancashire RC
15 Simon Shaw Wills Wheels Cycling Club

Southport CC
School persons Races Results week1

week 2 & 3 photos & results

PIMBO ROAD RACE

1 Andrew Tinsley Onimpex Bio-racer RT
2 Andrew Martin FP Mailing Cycle Team
3 Ben Eedy South Pennine RC
4 Adrian Bird www.echelon-cycles.co.uk
5 Rob Pugh Liverpool Century RC
6 David Hitchen New Brighton CC
7 Jeffrey Vernon Birkenhead North End CC/The Bike Factory
8 Stuart Gordon New Brighton CC
9 Roy Holmes Hewitt Racing
10 Richard Eastham Bournemouth Jubilee Whls
11 Tony Workman Lancashire RC
12 Christian Ellis
13 Kristian Poole Maxgear RT
14 Christian Prior RAF CC
15 John Watchman ABC Centreville

Chester RC - Saighton
1 Rob Pugh Liverpool Century RC
2 Chris Truett Kinesis UK
3 Steve Davies Onimpex Bio-racer RT
4 Duff Fawcett Great Britain Fire Service/Pro-lite
5 John Bellamy Lancashire RC
6 Eelco Docter Macclesfield Wheelers
7 Christian Ellis
8 Joshua Andjelkovic Loughborough Students CC
9 Peter Ware St Helens CRC/D.Sparrow Plumbing & Heating Services
10 Michael Cuming Macclesfield Wheelers e road race results

The Ribble Valley CRC Fylde road race on Sunday Junior rider Johnny McEvoy and Pete Williams made it into the race winning break which went on the first of the 7lap 82km race. The six man move contained Recycling.co.uk trio Newton, Briggs and Diggle as well as 100% me’s Alex Dowsett. The group set about gaining an advantage over the main field and with 2 laps remaining the attacking started. Tom Diggle was the first to find the speed too much and dropped off the break. With continual attacking from the group, the Kinesis duo rode well to cover the moves and then McEvoy took the initiative with around 1km to go and jumped the group which hesitated just long enough for McEvoy to hold on for the line. Dowsett took the sprint from Newton for 2nd with Pete Williams in 4th.

1 Jonathan McEvoy Kinesis
2 Alex Dowsett 100% ME
3 Chris Newton Recycling.co.uk Race Team
4 Peter Williams Kinesis UK
5 Graham Briggs Recycling.co.uk Race Team
6 Adam Bonser Recycling.co.uk Race Team
7 Richard Kent Science In Sport - Trek Under
8 Stephen Feeney Chester RC
9 Martin Freeman Alpha RC/Team Corley Cycles
10 Tom Diggle Recycling.co.uk Race Team
11 Jeffrey Vernon Birkenhead North End CC/The Bike Factory
12 James Williamson Wills Wheels Cycling Club
13 Mark Thwaites Kinesis UK
14 Richard Hepworth Wakefield CC
15 Timothy Lawson Science In Sport - Trek

Saturday 3rd March 2007 09.30 a.m.

Eddie Soens Memorial Handicap Cycle Race

Covering 50 miles (30 laps) of the 'Club Circuit' at Aintree Racecourse
Results & picsClick

Clayton Velo spring classic

1 Ian Stannard 100% ME
2 Alex Dowsett 100% ME
3 Mark Mcnally Liverpool Mercury (Dolan)
4 Robin Sharman K.F.S Special Vehicles
5 Matthew Brammeier Profel Ziegler Cycling Team
6 Dean Downing Rapha Condor
7 David Clarke
8 Paul Oldham Hope Factory Racing
9 Simon Baxter Adept Precision Racing
10 Greg Roche K.F.S Special Vehicles

Stephen Clark Southportcc's finished in the pack.

Tom Diggle(Kuota Biemme)Wins Junior Tour of Wales

Recycling. event 17

1 Matthew Higgins J.E. James RT
2 Mark Lovatt Planet X - Cycling Plus
3 David Coulson J.E. James RT
4 Mark Wordsworth J.E. James RT
5 Gary Adamson Kuota Biemme
6 Daniel Shand West Pennine RC
7 Grahame Sumner Great Britain Fire Service/Pro-lite RT
8 Michael Harrison Sigma Sport Over
9 James Williamson Agisko-Viner -Cycling.tv
10 Nathan Turnbull Leigh Premier RC
11 Gareth Hewitt J.E. James RT
12 Andrew Guy Preston CC Over
13 Peter Hey West Pennine RC
14 Peter Williams Kinesis UK

09/08/06 DADIZELE 1 Planckaert Baptiste 85 km en 2h01 2 Diggle Tom 3 Lodewyck Klaas 4 Pannekoek Jorg 5 Ghyselinck Jan 6 Debusschere Jens 7 Verbeek Dieter 8 Roels Diedrich 9 Vasciula Mantas 0.13 10 Maertens Sam

Tom is back from Belgium to ride the Junior Tour of Wales this weekend,
He finished 6th place in Balegem in a 90km Kermesse on Saturday
and improved the following day Sunday by winning an 84km Kermesse in Nederzwalm in a 2 man sprint after dropping the remnants of the break on the final run in.

Landis returns positive B sample
Floyd Landis Landis faces an uncertain future
Floyd Landis is set to lose his Tour de France title and faces a two-year ban after returning a positive B sample for excessive levels of testosterone.
The American's Phonak team dismissed Landis on Saturday when it was confirmed he produced levels more than twice the legal limit after stage 17.
Landis, 30, has said the high levels detected were a "natural occurrence".
Spaniard Oscar Pereiro will be declared the winner of the Tour de France if Landis is stripped of the title.
Pereiro was second overall behind Landis in the race, which finished in Paris on 23 July, and would become the first Spaniard to win the Tour since Miguel Indurain in 1995.

LANDIS
1992: Junior National Mountain Bike champion
1993: US National Mountain Bike champion
1995: Moves to California
1998: Switches to road racing
1999: Joins Mercury pro team
2000: Wins Tour du Poitou-Charentes
2002: Joins US Postal, races in first Tour de France
2003, Jan: Breaks hip in crash
2003, July: Helps Armstrong win fourth Tour de France
2004: Wins Tour d'Algarve
2005: Joins Phonak, finishes ninth in Tour de France
Mar 2006: Wins Paris-Nice
23 July: Wins Tour de France
27 July: Tests positive for testosterone
The official decision to strip Landis of the victory rests with the International Cycling Union (UCI), but Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme said: "It goes without saying that for us Floyd Landis is no longer the winner of the 2006 Tour de France."
Landis said in a statement: "I have never taken any banned substance, including testosterone.
"I was the strongest man at the Tour de France, and that is why I am the champion.
"I will fight these charges with the same determination and intensity that I bring to my training and racing.
"It is now my goal to clear my name and restore what I worked so hard to achieve."
His lawyer Howard Jacobs added: "In consultation with some of the leading medical and scientific experts, we will prove that Floyd Landis's victory in the 2006 Tour de France was not aided in any respect by the use of any banned substances."
A Phonak statement said: "Landis will be dismissed without notice for violating the teams internal Code of Ethics.
"Landis will continue to have legal options to contest the findings. However, this will be his personal affair and the Phonak team will no longer be involved in that."

We will explain to the world why this is not a doping case
Floyd Landis speaking last week
The analysis of Landis' B sample took place at France's national laboratory at Chatenay-Malabry in the presence of the American's Spanish lawyer, Jose Maria Buxeda, and experts from the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and the UCI.

Dave Roberts Memorial Road Race

1 James Rushton Aire Valley Racing Team
2 Samuel Clark Buxton CC
3 Tony Parkinson Rochdale Triathlon Club
4 Robert Pugh Liverpool Century RC
5 David Hitchen New Brighton CC
6 Jeffrey Vernon Birkenhead North End CC/The Bike Factory
7 Stephen Lloyd Deeside Olympic/Veeboard
8 Daniel Drake Horwich CC
9 Giles Pidcock Aire Valley Racing Team
10 Dieter Droger Wakefield CC - Exponential
11 James Moss Gosforth RC
12 Chris Diggle Southport CC
13 Richard Barnett Tunstall Whls CC
14 Andrew Flynn Liverpool Century RC
15 Philip Ellison 0
16 Craig Wilson Birdwell Whls
17 Greg Atkinson New Brighton CC
18 Joshua Andjelkovic Team Velocity Under
19 Keith Gordon New Brighton CC
20 Stephen Clark Southport CC
21 Stephen Gauller Birkenhead North End CC/The Bike Factory
22 Cameron Forrest New Brighton CC
23 Jonny Cawley Rhos On Sea CC
24 Roger Leather Getmeabike.com Racing Team
25 Martin Lyon Southport CC
26 Edmund Leary St Helens CRC/D.Sparrow Plumbing & Heating Services
27 Sean Williams i-team.co.uk
28 Andy Bennett Great Britain Fire Service
29 Stephen Bradbrook Deeside Olympic/Veeboard
30 John Guy
31 Matthew Walmsley Birkenhead North End CC/The Bike Factory
32 Stuart Gordon New Brighton CC

David Williams  Kuota Biemme racing team Wins recycling RR event 10 in sweltering conditions on the hilly circuit of Oakanclough with team mate Gary Adomson taking 10th

1 David Williams Kuota Biemme
2 Jimmy Froggatt Wills Wheels Cycling Club
3 James Dobbin Arctic - Shorter Rochford RT
4 James Williamson Agisko-Dart-Cycling.tv
5 Grahame Sumner Great Britain Fire Service
6 Andrew Guy Preston CC
7 Stephen Feeney Chester RC
8 Daniel Shand West Pennine RC
9 Peter Hey West Pennine RC
10 Gary Adamson Kuota Biemme
11 Mark Burton Wills Wheels Cycling Club
12 Stephen Rudkin
13 Christopher Belsham J.E. James RT
14 Richard Hepworth Wakefield CC -
15 Paul Shallicker Lancashire

Gary Adamson(Kuota Biemme) gets 7th place
in Westminster Grand Prix full story of race see british cycling website

Floyd Landis doping scandal is a mess, and a stain on cycling. But what if it's a scandal not caused by Landis? What if Landis is telling the truth? What if Landis has been set-up? Clutching at straws? Maybe more....

Tom Diggle ( Kuota Biemme ) riding in Belgium takes a 2nd & 10th

Tom is back from Belgium to ride the Junior Tour of Wales this weekend,
He finished 6th place in Balegem in a 90km Kermesse on Saturday
and improved the following day Sunday by winning an 84km Kermesse in Nederzwalm
results...

Tom Diggle from the southports based Kuota
Biemme Racing team wins stage 3 of the Junior Tour of Ireland and riding for the North west more...

David Williams  Kuota Biemme racing team Wins recycling RR event 10more...

2006 Tour de France Itinerary (1-23 July)
info..

Cycling's latest scandal
How it all unfolded(Click)

Wiggins on target for Tour

Bradley Wiggins believes he is in the form of his life and remains on target to pick up the Tour de France's prestigious yellow jersey in July.
The 25-year-old is among the favourites to win the Tour prologue on 1 July
He told BBC Sport: "The start to my season couldn't have gone any better.
"The difference between winning the yellow jersey and ending fifth will be seconds but, as it stands, I'm a match for any of the top time triallers."
The Cofidis rider faces major competition in his bid to win the 7km Tour opener in Strasbourg from, among others, countryman David Millar, who will be competing in his first road race since serving his two-year drug ban.
Millar already has past experience of prologue success and donning the yellow jersey, which Wiggins confessed would be useful to learn from.

"Sadly I'll be one of Dave's rivals so I don't think he's going to be giving me loads of advice about how to beat him!" said Wiggins. "That said, we've chatted about the Tour opener.
"It's great for British cycling especially with the Tour starting in London next year. That'll give it all the hype needed - especially if we manage a Brit one-two in Strasbourg.
"It's unprecedented for British cycling and one can only hope it launches a fresh generation of world-class riders coming through the ranks."
While the Olympic champion - he won gold on the track in Athens - admits he is a strong candidate for early Tour glory, he has ruled out being the next Lance Armstrong or competing for overall honours in the race.
But in his Tour preparation so far this season, Wiggins has ridden Paris-Nice and Paris-Roubaix.
In the former - his season opener - he was seventh in the prologue and just five seconds off the pace, while he was comfortably in the top 50 of the notoriously tough Paris-Roubaix.
"I could have gone with the eventual winners at Paris-Roubaix," he added, "but I thought 'what's the point in taking the risk?' when it wasn't one of my season goals. I decided to save myself for the Tour."

Northwest Champs 1/2 1. Pete Williams, Kinesis RT 2. Gary Adamson, Kuota Biemme 3. Bryan Poole, Anderson's RT 4. Chris Barron, Kent Valley RC 5. Martin Freeman, Wills Wheels 6. Nathan Turnbull, Leigh Premier 7. Tim Lawson, Science in Sport 8. Nick Shaughnessy, Wills Wheels 9. Stephen Feeney, Chester RC 10. Paul Shalicker, Lancashire RC 11. Davis Hitchen, New Brighton CC 12. Christopher Burrows, BC PM 13. Ashley Whipp, Manx RC 14. Ben Akins, Terry Dolan 15. Matt Hodges, Science in Sport 16. Lee Feeney, Chester RC 17. John Bellamy, Lancashire RC 18. Andy Gott, Sportstest.co.uk 19. Gary Vose, Lune RCC 20. Simon Lawman, Lancashire RC REGIONAL B CHAMPS 3/4 1. Robert Pye, Red Rose Olympic 03:03:56 2. Simon Shaw, Wills Wheels st 3. Cameron Forrest New Brighton C.C. st 4. John Kent, Birkenhead N.E. st 5. Richard Sale, Horwich C.C. st 6. Julian Mortel, Stockport Clarion st 7. John Guy, Private Member 8. Richard Bowen, Liverpool Century 9. Stewart Dwyer, St. Helens CRC 10. Kevin Reilly, TerryDolan.com

RESULTS
1. James Williams, Agisko Dart 2-13-02
2. Dave Williams, Kuota Biemme @ 42 sec '
3. Graham Sumner, GB Fire Services
4. Jeff Vernon, Birkenhead N E @ 47 sec
5. Chris Diggle, Southport CC @ 58 sec
6. Tim Lawson, SIS @ 53 sec
7. Stephen Feeney, Chester RC
8. Andrew Guy, Preston CC
9. Chris Seipen, Wills Wheels CC
10. Chris Burrows, PM
11. Mark Dzioben, M K Cycles
12. Mark Turnbull, Leigh Premier
13. Emmanuel Guitton, Wills Wheels CC
14. Ben Atkins, Terry Dolan.com
15. Tom Diggle, Kuota Biemme
16. Alistair Rutherford, Wills Wheels CC
17. Chris Anderson, Lakes RC
18. Gary Vose, Lune RCC

Kinesis

Above: Team lineup [L to R]; Sam Webster, Pete Williams, Sam Thompson, Chris Truett [team manager], Mark Thwaites, Johnny McEvoy. (not pictured, Adam Turner).

Team Kinesis UK is currently embarking on their second year after an arduous winter of training, track and ?cross racing and having expanded their line-up after the success of last year. For 2006 the team boasts an impressive line up;

Pete Williams: North West Road Elite Champion,
Sam Thompson: No.1 British MTB Junior Rider at NPS, moving up to Elite Rider this season.
Mark Thwaites: Who finished 2nd in the National under 23 ?cross champs and also moves up to Elite Rider this season.
Johnny McEvoy: Another top cyclo-cross and road rider, who competed in the World Junior Cross Championships this year for GB.
Two new juniors, Adam Turner and Sam Webster join the squad for this season.

Connor `proffitts` from Andy`s stage victory
Stage 5
Ballymena`s Ryan Connor held on to take his second P&O Irish Sea Tour of the North win in Dundonald today, but the final stage was not without its drama, as at one stage Connor had lost the race leaders Yellow Jersey on the tough County Down stage.
A group of around two dozen moved clear on the Sleive Croob climb, where james Dobbin was first over the top, a feat he repeated at Windy gap and Castlewellan to secure overall victory in the AA sponsored competition.
At Clough with 30 miles remaining a group of 7 riders had moved clear, building up a lead of over two minutes, making Peter Williams (Kinesis UK) leader on the road. All the favourites, Connor, Evans and Irvine were behind and gave chase closing the gap in the closing miles.
Three riders clipped off the front in the run in, former British Under 23 Champion Neil Swithenbank, Jonathan Dempsey and 1998 race winner Andy Proffitt.
It was in Connors interests to let the three stay away and take the time bonuses, although he could not afford to give them too much freedom as Dempsey was only 54 seconds down overall.
It all worked to Connors favour, with Proffitt taking the flag at Dundonald ahead of Swithenbank and Dempsey, with stage 4 winner Fraser Duncan leading the chasers in at 21 seconds. Connor, Evans and Irvine were among the chasers, although with Proffitts time bouns it moved him in to equal second overall a mere 10 seconds off race winner Connor, who repeated his 2004 win, albeit with a lesser margin.
All in all the final stage lived up to his expectations, with Connor savouring his second race win before heading back to Europe for the remainder of the season.
Stage 5 Result
1Andy Proffitt Arctic Racing Team 74 miles in 3.03.37
2Neil Switnenbank MK Cycles-Lancashire RC
3Jonathan Dempsey Classic Walls RT
4Fraser Duncan Northern-Dave Kane Cycles @21 sec
5Simon Williams Orchard Whs s.t.
6David Watson Northern -Dave kane Cycles
Final Overall General Classification
1 R Connor Ballymena RC-Scott Rooftiles 7.42.41
2 T Evans Terry Dolan.com @ 10sec
3 A Proffitt Arctic Shorter-Rochford @ 10 sec
(decided on cumulative TTs)
4 M Irvine Ards CC @ 15
5 D Axford Arctic RT @ 34
6 P Williams Team Kinesis UK @ 37
7 J Dempsey Classic Walls RT @41
8 C Battersby MK Cycles-Lancashire Road Club @45
9 D Shand West Pennine Road Club @52
10 A Armstrong Northern Dave Kane Cycles @ 55
11 F Duncan Northern Dave kane Cycles @ 1.03
12 N Swithenbank MK Cycles-Lancashire Road Club @1.05
13 D Watson Northern-Dave Kane Cycles @ 1.10
14 G Roche West Pennine Road Club @ 1.14
15 G Jones Fuji Bikes UK @1.15
U23s
1 Connor 1st
2 Irvine 4th
3 Williams 6th
4 Shand 9th
5 A Armstrong 10th
Juniors
1 T Martin 18th
2 S Webster 20th
3 R Creber 21st
4 S Williams 27th
5 R Yates 44th
Veterans
1 J Hey 30th
2 D Gardiner 42nd
3 B Graham 48th
AA King of the Hills
1 J Dobbin
2 T Evans
3= R Connor & D Shand
Team
1 Northern (unconfirmed)Duncan Tops in Bangor sprint.
Stage 4
Leading in the remains of a 7-man break that had been away for most of the stage, Fraser Duncan (Northern CC) took the honours at Bangor on Sunday afternoon. The breakaway escaped early in the stage, and their lead peaked at 2min 30 seconds at Greyabbey with 20 miles remaining. By the only King of the Hills climb at Newtownards, that lead was down to 1 min 30. In the closing miles the bunch awakened, and on the line were breathing down the necks of the leaders, with Duncan