Rapha Super Cross 17th October

The 2nd round of the Rapha Super Cross came to a Huddersfield New College on Sunday.  The 3 race series kicked off at Windermere in the Lake District on Saturday & the finale is at Alexandra Palace, London next weekend.  Before the big event there was the plenty of action  in the Yorkshire Points Series with over 350 riders taking part supported by a huge crowd who were enjoying the sunshine & Belgium style race atmosphere including beer tent, brass band & cow bells.

Holme Valley Wheeler Amira Mellor was 7th place & first girl in the Youth race which was won by Seb Marsh (Paul Milnes RT).  The Under 8s race was a keenly contested event with Nathan Fortune (Pedalsport) getting the better of Huddersfield Star Wheelers Luca Longo in 2nd & Alex Bailey in 3rd.  Henry Hollyman (Kirklees Cycling Academy) beat Ava Oxley (Wakefield Tri) by half a wheel in the Under 10s, Hollymans clubmate Adam Fortune was 3rd.  Mason Hollyman was 2nd in the Under 12s behind a flying Jenson Young (Pedalsport).

In the Veterans race Richard Binks (Holme Valley Wheelers) had his best result of the season in 3rd place behind victorious Matt Denby (Zepnat RT) & Mike Young (Pedalsport) in 2nd. 

Top Junior riders Ed McPartand (GT Racing UK) & Nick Barnes (Zepnat RT) were battling it out for the win in the Senior/Junior race.  After 45 minutes of racing it was down to a 2-up sprint with McParland edging out Barnes for the win.  Tom Stockhill (Malton Wheelers) completed the podium positions & Jonny Limebear (Batley CC) was an impressive 4th place just 12 seconds behind the leaders.  Lee Brown (Holme Valley Wheelers) was best of the local riders in 30th place.

The Elite race was won by Jody Crawforth (Hargroves-Specialized-Trant-Next) with National Champion Paul Oldham (Hope Technology) hot on his wheels in 2nd & Crawforths team mate Steve James rounded off the podium positions.  Hope Technology are leading the team competition by 2 points from Scott UK.

All in all a great event well organised by Andy Whitworth.

Full report on the British Cycling website

Yorkshire Road Club held their hill climb event up Cragg Vale on Saturday.  Richard Handley (Team Raleigh) was fastest up the 4.81mile climb, the longest continuous gradient in England, in a time of 15min 52.6sec nearly 20 seconds ahead of former National Hill Climb champion Matt Clinton (Mike Vaughan Cycles).  Richard Anderson (VS Cycles) continued his good form with 10th place, stopping the clock in 18min 41.5sec.

1	Richard Handley	Team Raleigh		15:52.6
2	Matt Clinton	Mike Vaughan Cycles		16:10.9
3	Charles Taylor	South Pennine RC		17:04.9
4	Carl Saint	Yorkshire RC		17:19.3	A
5	Ian Stott	Blackburn & Dist		17:51.4
6	Sam Ward	Otley CC		17:52.1
7	Peter Greenwood	Clayton Velo		18:00.3	B
8	Chris Beales	La Fuga Sigma Sport		18:04.9	B
9	Lee Tunnicliffe	Planet X RT		18:28.7
10	Richard Anderson	VS Cycles		18:41.5