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22-6-22 was Bourne Wheelers 10 mile Club Championship Time Trial on the Aslackby course through Dunsby, Dowsby and Billingborough. The conditions were superb on a beautiful summer evening. Continuing his fine run of form this season, Dan Galpin took the championship title with a time of 21:26 narrowly beating seasoned campaigner Tom Comben into second place. 3rd place went to Andy Walsh with 23-50. Jonathan Manning close behind with 23-57. Amongst the other quick times Adam Riddington also produced a personal best of 25-45 even with a mechanical issue just before the start. In the middle of the field competition was tight with Terry Lawrence finishing with 27:09, newcomer Pete Moisey doing well with 28-18, Nick Leaton with 26-20, Tony Gilbert with 27-16, Cliff Hilless with 25-02 and Martin Rolbin with 26-19. The Lantern Rouge was held on to comfortably by Phil Galpin with 28-35. Many thanks go to the organisers Chris and Julia Kettle ably assisted by Mike Smalley.

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Four Bourne Wheelers took part in the East Anglian VTTA tim trial on the10/04/2021 14:00, on the E2/10 course. Alex Galpin was second in a time of 19:53, 4th Jacob Bush 20:14, 7th Dan Galpin 20:37, 18th Toby Bush 21:15. Wayne Hill 77th 26:19.

The course conditions described as wet & windy.

Gareth Richards- 4th May 2019

Honours shared at Redbridge today with two seconds, both well deserved. In strong winds both races split. In Em race with 3 laps to go Em attacked to chase leader. In doing so dropped the others to finish 2nd. Bryn's race similar with two away he chased hard and over took one of them closing the gap fast to lead but ran out of laps. Big well done to Dan Galpin working hard all race.

Gareth Richards- 4th May 2019

Jacob BUSH

This has been Jacob’s first full season in Cycle Racing having taken the decision to start competitive cycling in October 2019, moving away from National and European level skiing, his first race was the Lincolnshire 10M TT back last October, where he set a new Juvenile Lincolnshire record, coached by Dean Downing from October 2019 Jacob has had a very successful 1st season as a first Year u16 rider which has produced the following results;

Jacob (15 ) has just won the Chris Boardman Trophy, award for the overall u19 Champion of Champions by RTTC.

Jacob has achieved Five Age Group National Championship’s over the past few months with the following results.

1st National Closed-Circuit Championships 2020
1st National 25 Circuit Championships 2020
1st National 25 Championships 2020
1st National Youth Championships 2020
1st National 10 Championships 2020

In addition, he has taken Three Podiums in the Overall u19 Junior Categories.

1st National 25 Circuit Championships 2020
2nd National Closed-Circuit Championships 2020
2nd National Youth Championships 2020

Furthermore, along with two team members from Bourne Wheelers they have set new UK records for the Youth Team 10-mile and 25-mile events.

Finally, in addition he qualified to represent the GB u19 Duathlon Squad at the original World Championships in 2021 in Australia, which has since been moved to the Netherlands, despite only being 14.

Toby BUSH

Toby (13) also decided to make the move from Ski Racer to

Cycle Racer, after having his 2019/20 Ski Cross race season

cut short by COVID he returned from his Team’s base in

Switzerland and decided to follow his brother into cycling.

Again, Toby has been coached by Dean Downing since July

this year and has achieved;

2nd Place (U14 Rider) in the National 10 Mile Road Time Trial

2nd Place (U14 Rider) in the GHS Road Time Trial

4th Place (U14 Rider) in the National 25 Mile Road Time Trial

And finally

1st Place U14 Rider) in the National 25 Circuit Road Time Trial

National Junior 10m TT Newbury

Overall Jacob 14th , Alex 21st , Dan 40th , Toby 74th

Juvenile category Jacob 1st 20-08,

Toby 2nd 14 year old

Second team overall

National team juvenile record Jacob, Alex and Toby

National team juvenile record Jacob, Alex and Dan

GHS school boy 16 and under 10 TT Portsmouth

Overall Jacob 2nd, Alex 5th, Dan 9th, Toby 37th

Jacob first 15 year old, juvenile 20-51

Toby 2nd 14 year old

First team overall

National Junior 25m Loughborough

Overall Jacob Jacob 7th, Alex 13th, Toby 42nd

Juvenile category Jacob 1st, 51-31, Alex 3rd, Toby 10th

Toby 4th 14 year old

National team juvenile record Jacob, Alex and Toby

National Junior closed circuit TT (11.7m) Thruxton

First team

Overall Jacob 2nd23-35, Alex 7th , Dan 8th , Toby 46th

Toby 6th 14 year old.

Juvenile Category Jacob 1st, Alex 2nd, Dan 3rd, Toby 17th

National Junior open circuit 25TT Cambridge

Jacob National champion

First team

National team juvenile 25 record Jacob, Alex and Dan

Jacob has also been awarded the CTT junior champion of

champions trophy.

There are some other stand out performances from Jacob

doing two 19 minute 10miles.

Alex Galpin

Photos: Huw Williams

Jacob Bush

Gareth Richards 20th April 2019- Big fields with quality riders today at Redbridge Easter races and some top racing. Em worked hard and stayed with main bunch getting 7th in final sprint. Her best race of year.
Bryn race was very fast (ave 23.8)and he was aggressive from start. Got in couple of breakaways but couldn't hold it. Whole field split up and eventually 6th.

Results from the first club TT of the season Barholm 5- 17th April 2019- Congratulations to Tim Lister on a time of 11.10 2nd Antony Gough 11.13 and 3rd place went to Bryan Richards. We welcomed several new riders tonight who I hope enjoyed the experience. There was a good entry from the juniors who did some cracking times. Ride of the night was awarded to Tim Lister. Thank you to Chris Kettle Damian Langdon Antoine Snoek and Chris Rolbin for your help tonight.

LRRA 2UP TT Saturday 23rd March

Good day for the red army at 2up Lincs championship. Em n Ellie fastest females overall! Bryn n Rozza 7th overall and 5th in lrra. Both teams came back quicker than expected so no finish photo!
Tea n cakes were great too well done Sleaford.

Wisbeach 15 Open Time Trial- Sunday 24th March 2019

Tom Comben, Tim Lister and Chris Kettle had a good day on a flat, fast, breezy A47 on Sunday. A 60 rider strong field.

Tom was 6th with a time of 33.20, Tim 10th 33.53 and Chris 15th with 34.46.

They narrowly missed out on the team prize.

Racing news from Saturday 6th March 2019-

Youth riders make strong start in the early season races for Bourne.
At the first round of the Milton Keynes circuit races Owen Lightfoot produced an excellent win and Bryn Richards took 5th place in a high quality field. For the girls Emily Richards, Ellen Fordham and Ellie Peel all rode well building on their strong cyclocross performances.
At the second round Alex Galpin and Dan Galpin competed in the under 16 boys race. In a very fast race a split in the group occurred when the eventual winner attacked. Dan was unfortunately the wrong side of the split but rode on to finish 23rd. Alex stayed with the main group and placed 12th in the dash for the line. Earlier the girls Emily and Ellen had battled with the windy conditions. Emily had a brief skirmish off the front of the race and rode well to be awarded 4th place. Ellen rode well and finished strongly to be rewarded with 11th under 16 girl.

2019 League Registration First and Second Claim Bourne Wheelers

For the 2019 Club Time Trial season we are asking riders to register if they wish to compete in the league and gain league points.

Basically if you will be riding most of the league events, register, if you know you will only be able to ride a few events, and are not bothered about getting points for the few you ride, don’t register.

Non registered riders will still get their placing on the night and be eligible for “Ride of the Night” award. And provided they became a first claim member before the 1st June of the league year, will count in championship events.

We now have split the Scratch league into an A and B league, allowing riders in the lower speed bracket to contend for an overall league win, as well as the handicap title, so by asking riders to register their intention to compete for points should ensure points are awarded to those who need them.

A registration form will be sent out via email, and will be displayed at sign on once racing starts.

Time Trial League News January 19

The 2019 Club TT league will run as and A and B scratch league . This will allow riders in less speedy time band to compete for an overall victory. Details of which league you will compete in will be based on your average times from the previous season. New riders will be based on their time after 3 events.

More details will be released nearer the start of the season.

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Alex Galpin

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Jacob Bush

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