TT Report - 2nd May 2013

On a glorious evening 30 riders prepared to take on the Abbotsley TT challenge. However, unfortunately, Andrew Kluth managed to puncture during the warm-up, and was not able to start and so we had 29 riders with the wind behind them up to the first turn and then, as usual, the wind does not do anyone any favours for a few miles.

Some excellent times were posted on the evening, especially from our visitors who took 2nd to 5th places. Nevertheless, St Neots Cycling Club member, Ian Turner, turned in an excellent time of 25.26 to keep ahead of an old friend of the Club, Ian Cammish who was second.

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Ian Turner - fastest on the night - no flies on him                   Ian Cammish - old friend of the club - on the Cinques

Well done to those on their first TT, Lewis Rooney, Trevor Porter, Simon Richardson, and Andy Holt who was lantern rouge on the night.

1

Ian

Turner

25.26

2

Ian

Cammish

26.41

3

Paul

Davies

27.18

4

Kevin

Stokes

27.57

5

Neil

Wood

28.19

6

Darren

Preston

28.45

7

Adrian

Taverna

29.17

8

David

Lindsay

30.22

9

Dom

Whitehead

30.27

10

Steve

Muchmore

30.53

11

Steve

Rodley

30.54

12

Wayne

Tunnah

31.02

13

Adrian

Lancaster

31.15

14

Jonathan

Pang

31.21

15

Ashley

Cooper

31.47

16

Gareth

Smith

31.50

17

Lewis

Rooney

31.57

18

Chris

Preston

32.31

19

Dan

Baxter

32.31

20

Trevor

Porter

33.18

21

Ian

Gerrard

33.24

22

Alistair

Henderson

33.46

23

Leon

Bradford

34.17

24

George

Lendrum

34.27

25

Simon

Richardson

34.33

26

Jon

Keefe

35.08

27

Jeremy

Griggs

36.50

28

David

Standring

38.05

29

Andy

Holt

38.30

 

Handicap Trophy

As in 2012, we expect this to be a closely contested season, with the usual ebb and flow of results leaving it doubtful until the end who will be the eventual winner of the Handicap Trophy .

After two weeks the running is being made by Jon Keefe and Dan Baxter who have both improved on their previous times from last year and also from the first week to keep at the top of the table. Adrian Taverna and Jonathan Pang are on their wheels and Gareth Smith in his first season is showing some good form to keep in contention with the leaders. The more that you improve on your time the smaller your handicap. For example, Jon’s time last week was 36.28 giving him a handicap of 11.28 - so we deduct 11.28 from this week’s time of 35.08, leaving him with a handicap time of 23.40. Until he improves on 35.08 his handicap is now 10.08 and it is this time that will be deducted from his actual time on the night.

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Jon Keefe - handicap leader                                                                               Leon Bradford gives it everything

There were 19 points on offer this week, as we do not award points to guests or those on their first TT. Your handicap is taken from your actual time and the rider with the best resulting handicap time takes the 19 points and so on down to 1. If two handicap times are the same then the points are split for those 2 places (eg 8 points and 7 points = 15/2 = 7.5 points each, hence the half points that are shown on the table).

 

 

 

Points

1

Jon

Keefe

36

2

Dan

Baxter

32

3

Adrian

Taverna

21

4

Jonathan

Pang

21

5

Gareth

Smith

18

6

David

Smith

18

7

Steve

Rodley

17.5

8

Ian

Turner

17

9

David

Lindsay

16

10

Tom

Stead

16

11

Steve

Muchmore

15

12

Adrian

Lancaster

15

13

Adrian

Bloxham

15

14

Ian

Gerrard

14

15

Craig

Jallal

14

16

Darren

Preston

13

17

Tim

Pennell

13

18

Ashley

Cooper

11

19

Chris

Preston

11

20

Richard

Hancock

10.5

21

Chris

Ritchie

8

22

Leon

Bradford

7

23

Wayne

Tunnah

5

24

Richard

Ostler

4

25

Alistair

Henderson

3

26

Steve

Pleasance

3

27

David

Standring

2

28

Jeremy

Griggs

1

Report by Alistair; photos by Alec