On Saturady, 4 Thorpers rode the infamous Levens L1015 course, which is regarded as being the fastest 10 in the country, Wiggins did a 17.58 here 2 years ago!!!!!

The weather lulled us into a false sense of security as we were in the lee of the wind at the HQ area but on the course there was an extremely stiff cross wind with john Lancaster saying he got a real sped wobble with his disk and tri-spoke combo. The  ski-slope start was negated due to a block head wind, none of us got much over 35 on what is a 3% downhill section!

The times are extremely interesting;

1st Al Wareham- 23.30

2nd Steve McCall 23.32

3rd John Lancaster 23.41

4th Les Dawson 25.24

Les whacked a solid 2 and a half minutes off his PB so an exceptional ride and well done to Al for winning (although only by 2 seconds!!!!!! ) and a great ride by John by getting in the mix for the overall and making for a promising season for the inter club battles!!!

The event winner was the World Junior Pursuit Champion Andy Tennant, who set off 2 minutes behind me a took me at 6 miles like a bloody train, I’ve never seen class on a bike like that before!!! This guy was like an exocet!! Would love to be overtaken by Wiggins for 5 minutes, that would be an experience. He ended the day with a 19.33, on a windy day!!!! Goodness knows what he would do on a float day, crikey.

Good luck to Al riding the other drag strip on the opposite side of the country, the V718, here’s hoping for less wind.

ALLEZ LES VERTS.