By winning Sunday’s event. Jake Sargent of Team Bottrill broke the course record he set in 2021 and set a new one of 50m 37s (29.634 mph). Tim Radley was the highest placed home rider, breaking the hour with a time of 59m 30s (25.21 mph) to come thirteenth. He...
A well-matched group of seven left King’s Square on a less oppressively hot day than recent days, A flat parcours and some lovely new tarmac encouraged the peloton to form up like a Jumbo Visma Team Time Trial. Excellent team work and rotation kept the group...
While grouping up outside Jane’s Pantry in Twigworth, we saw the enormous Jumbo Visma team bus pass on its way to the start, with a smaller camper van belonging to Team Bingoal slipstreaming it. Obviously different teams have different budgets. A little later,...
With our lead-out men, Wout Van Aert and Rohan Dennis absent, leadout duties fell to Lizzie Deignan and Kasia Niewiadoma, and they did a fine job up Stroud Road, through Haresfield and on to Stonehouse. At Coaley, we thought we had lost a rider, so the leader retraced...
After some discussion as to whether the ride was A or AA, ten set off from the square proceeding up the A38 to Quedgeley, then via Severnvale Drive to Naas Lane roundabout. After passing the police station and Quedgeley Pond, we took the cycle path through Hunts...
Sixteen gathered in the Square and we welcomed Ann and John back from Australia on holiday also Alister Scott and Toby, aged 10 who rode the whole route effortlessy. It was a hilly ride through the Forest and down to Redbrook where the leader made a wise decision not...
