Loadsa Hill Climbs & a bit of Cyclo Cross 10th Oct

There was plenty of hill climb action this weekend as Holme Valley Wheeler's promoted their event up Holme Moss on Saturday morning & Huddersfield Star Wheelers held their event at Jackson Bridge in the afternoon.  Conditions in the morning were far from ideal with low cloud at the summit & a headwind making it tough going.  Former National Champion Matt Clinton (Mike Vaughan Cycles) was way ahead of the opposition with a spectacular time of 6min 46sec for the 1.3 mile climb, best of the rest was Dan Evans (Rhos on Sea CC) in 7min 11.8sec, with Lee Baldwin (Buxton CC) 3rd in 7min 20.1sec.  Richard Anderson (VS Cycles) was fastest of the local riders in 6th place in a time of 8min 20.4sec just 1 second ahead of Star Wheeler's Andy Pearson.

Clinton dominated the other 37 riders on the climb to Tinker's Monument in the afternoon in 4min 17.2sec nearly 20 seconds faster than Dan Evans, once again in 2nd place with 4min 35.7sec.  Junior Joshua Ferguson (Coveryourcar.co.uk) produced a great ride for 3rd place in 4min 49.3sec.  Andy Pearson repeated his 7th place from the morning & scraped under the 5 minute barrier by 0.2 seconds.  Lewis Hirst (Kirklees Cycling Academy) was 2nd in the British Schools event in 7min 22.9sec behind David Pullan (East Bradford CC) in 6min 17.7sec.

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There were some great results for the Huddersfield youth riders in the 81st running of the Monsal Head Hill Climb on Sunday.  Former Holme Valley riders Jacob Scott (Planet X) & Gabriel Cullaigh (RST RT-Trigon) were both 2nd place in their respective age categories.  Scott's time of 1min 37.7 was good enough for 10th place overall, the winning time was 1min 26sec from Cullaigh's team mate & Swedish International mountain biker Gunnar Gronlund.  Holme Valley Wheeler Lee Brown was an impressive 15th place with a time of 1min 41.6sec.

There was another victory for RST RT-Trigon in the Norton Wheelers Cyclo Cross event at Graves Park, Sheffield.  Gareth Hewitt won the Senior/Women/Junior/Veterans race from Tom Randall (Wakefield Tri) in 2nd & Robin Bradbury (Aire Valley RT) in 3rd.  Huddersfield Road Club's David Beachill was 10th & Graham Piccavey (Huddersfield Star Wheelers) was 15th.

In the Under 12s event James Ince (Kirklees Cycling Academy) was 2nd behind Oliver Snodden, Star Wheelers Ruby & Dylan Boyes were 10th & 12th.