Club Mountain TT 2023

 

Club Mountain TT 2023

 On a sunny but cold  Sunday morning 7 valiant souls (or nutters depending on your point of view) gathered at Spinners Hollow in Ripponden to avail themselves of some suffering.

After setting them off the Hon. Timekeeper motored around to the finish on Ripponden Road at Barkisland where it was a lovely sunny day and quite warm inside a car!

A new fastest man this year. Congratulations to Lewis. Martin G. managed to ride the exact same time as he did in 2022!

Good to have a member from the distaff side riding for the first time in 4 years. Well done to Victoria and well done to the others too. Thanks for turning out people. Still need to see more of you at this event. 

Results as below:

Open Hilly Time Trial 2023

 After several abortive attempts in recent years to run a hilly open event Imps finally managed to get one done! Weather was just about as perfect is it can be on the hills and despite a disappointingly small field a good time was had by all and a course record was broken.

From a field of 16 we had 4 DNS and despite the easy availability of electronic communications the Organiser had no apologies. Bad form.

A field of 12 then, with 3 Imps riding. The record breaker was Elliot Fraser of Clifton CC York who in addition to being the fastest male at any age broke the Junior course record of 24:16 previously held by Harry Butterworth of Holmfirth CC taking it down to an impressive 23:47. Chapeau Elliot.

Second gentleman back and first Senior was Michael Summers of Team Wheelguru in 25:23 and the first lady was Madeline Moore of Torq Performance in 27:58. 

Special mention to Madeline for riding to and from the event! Didn't know anyone still did that. Chapeau 2.

Thanks to Martin Gargett for organising and to all Imps members who turned out to marshall. 

Results are below and a random picture or two:

Rear view of the eventual winner and record breaker!

Club Mountain TT 2022

 On a sunny but extremely windy Sunday morning 4 valiant souls (or nutters depending on your point of view) gathered at Spinners Hollow in Ripponden to avail themselves of some suffering.

After setting them off the Hon. Timekeeper motored around to the finish on Ripponden Road at Barkisland where it was so windy it made opening the car door really difficult.

The eventual finishing times were much in line with last year for all 3 finishers as was the finishing order. The only possible contender to upset the order was forced to retire by a puncture. Commiserations to Andy and chapeau to the Martins and JK.

Results as below:

Greg Elwell captures the club 10 mile record

 As well as taking the club 24 hour title (he already holds the club 100 record) it has been reported to me that the speedy Mr E has also captured the 10 prize on 26th April on the L1015 Levens course.

The old record held by Dan Shaw was 20.29 and Greg has done 19.47 equal to a speed of 30.329mph!

Results page from CTT is below:

The Club record page now looks like this:

Will he be going for a clean sweep? He has a 25 time 52.23 I see from his CTT page so closing in on that one. Chapeau Greg. 

Greg Elwell in Mersey Roads 24 hour event revised - new club record confirmed

Never rush to publish they say and after putting up this post it transpires that the 24 Hour Fellowship had managed to misplace 28 miles of Greg's ride.  The updated CTT results page is now copied below 

This means that the new club 24 hour record holder is now Greg with his total of 453.42 miles giving him an average speed of 18.873 mph. Congratulations to Greg.  The old record held by Paul Cre since 2018 was 434.21 so Greg's increase to the distance is 19.21 miles.

It also seems there is another record to add Mr Elwell's Palmares and another page will follow. :)

Imps Open 10

 

The open 10 mile TT is being held on Thursday 26th May. 1st rider is Holly Norris at 19:31. Details are available here https://cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/race-entrant-list/23678#anchor . A few helpers are required at the start and finish and Marshal at the turn. A large portion of the field are club members so please come along, help out, and support you clubmates. The event HQ is Cumberworth FC, Park Lane, Birdsedge HD8 8XW and helpers should arrive between 18:30 and 19:00.

Greg Elwell lowers Club record for the 100 for the second year

 Having been sadly defeated by ill-health in his first attempt at the 24 hour record Greg has now soundly beaten the Club record he took last year by 6 minutes and thirteen seconds!  The new time is 3.38.25 which comes out to 27.498 mph!  Which earned him 22nd place from 81 starters. 

The Club Records page has been updated accordingly.  I would post a picture of the man a-wheel but he seems to be a bit camera shy....

Chapeau Greg!