With the time trial season now well out of the way, three Velo Club Baracchi riders took part in the Norfolk Nips 1 102.6km Audax on Saturday from Hellesdon. They were Mike Rainton, Steve Cone and John Thompson. Rainton was accompanied by local rider Denis Glasscock and Cone by his son Glen. The distance worked […]
Velo Club Baracchi’s two hill events were blessed by good weather for Mike Bretton’s double win, by which he proved his abilities both down hill and up. The club run went first to the downhill freewheeling venue, Jays Hill at Sotterley, where the riders were marshalled by Paul Bedford, who explained the rules of the […]
The end of season Holmes Cup reliability trial ended the competition between Lowestoft’s Velo Club Baracchi and Gt Yarmouth CC without overturning Yarmouth’s lead. The 50-mile group ride from the Blundeston Plough was very well attended but VCB could muster no more than sixteen or so souls to Yarmouth’s thirty-one. As most riders finished […]
In the rainy gloom of last Sunday it was surprising that anyone at all ventured out to take part in the informal Keith Stephens Memorial Duathlon staged by Velo Club Baracchi. However four hardy souls did so and Lee Cook of Rock Estate Runners and Riders repeated his win of last year. A good […]
George Kerridge of Velo Club Baracchi was the club’s fastest rider with 23:54 in the Norwich Amateur Bicycle Club’s open 10-mile time trial on Saturday from Wortwell. There was nothing that Chris Womack could do to match Kerridge, but he certainly tried and was the second-fastest VCB rider with 23:56. Ali Banks also rode […]
The time trial season is drawing towards it close but has been enlivened by two notable performances in last weekend’s windy conditions, one from George Kerridge in the Velo Club Baracchi 25-mile championship and the other a personal best at 10 miles by Chris Womack. Kerridge rode strongly in the VCB 25-mile championship within […]
A great ride by Ali Banks and comeback man Mike Bretton, one of Velo Club Baracchi’s original members, gave them victory in the hard-fought Baracchi Trophy two-up time trial. The Lowestoft club’s event, like the name of the club itself, was derived from a former professional two-up event last ridden in 1990 in northern Italy. […]
Velo Club Baracchi’s club run on Sunday attracted nine riders, who rode just over 60 miles in the Suffolk and Norfolk countryside. They followed a time-honoured route to Halesworth and then set off again through Wissett to Homersfield and thence into Norfolk towards the Pulhams, returning by way of Harleton and Bungay before setting […]
John Thompson of Velo Club Baracchi often features somewhere in the reports of the club’s activities and he was in action again on Saturday. His results are usually modest but it is nice to reflect also on his contribution to the sport, which includes riding more open time trials and many more audax events than […]
Lowestoft triathlete and cyclist Joe Skipper George of Strada Sport rode a stunning time of 53:12 in Godric CC’s 25-mile club time trial in light side winds on Saturday. It was not very far off the record time set by Zak Carr on a slightly different version of the course (the same route but […]
Chris Womack of Velo Club Baracchi has just enjoyed two wonderful ten-mile time trial rides, both of which would have been stunning personal bests if he had ridden the slower one first, but by riding over 40 seconds faster than ever before, he set his personal best with the first one. Womack hit the […]
Sunday’s strong breeze made the CC Breckland 30-mile time trial on the A11 road more of a challenge than it would have been for the Velo Club Baracchi riders. Chris Womack was able to ride a personal best 1-16:05. His previous 30-mile rides were on the slower Somerleyton course and on a faster day […]
Womack happy at the Godric 10 Chris Womack of Velo Club Baracchi had to go far afield to ride a 50-mile time trial this year and has just had a good ride in Oxfordshire. Unavailable for the local events, he entered the Oxonian CC event based on the A420 road from Kingston Bagpuize, about six […]
Last Tuesday’s Godric CC 10-mile time trial at Earsham was won by Joe Skipper of Strada Sport in 21:03, with his club-mate Stuart Pryce second in 21:53. There were two tandems. Stuart Scott and Jim Burgess of Anglia Velo had prepared a machine and were riding it for their first time trial together and the […]
Steve Summons, who has now recovered from the cycling accident injuries to his ribs, stormed to the best Velo Club Baracchi ride in the Godric CC 10 last week. His 24:36 beat VCB’s current star Chris Womack (24:43) as well as Chris’s son Mark (25:49) and John Thompson (28:46). Twenty-six solo riders and one […]
George Kerridge of Velo Club Baracchi enjoyed both the bad luck and the good in the Diss & District CC open time trial on Sunday. The 25-mile event was on the undulating road between Bressingham and the Theford roundabout, passing through Garboldisham. It was a little damp with light drizzle on the wind here and […]
Chris Womack of Velo Club Baracchi continued his massive purple patch with a medal-winning 100-mile time trial on the same weekend as yet another sub-hour 25-mile ride. The 66-year-old rider recorded a splendid personal best time in the East District CA 100 on the Besthorpe – Wymondham – Larling circuit, achieving an average speed of […]
Chris Womack followed up his personal best 25-mile time reported last week with another sub-hour ride in the Norwich Amateur Bicycle Club’s open 25-mile time trial on the A11, beating his club-mates. Womack preparing for a recent Godric CC ride It was not quite as fast a course as when he did a “58” but […]
George Kerridge became the Velo Club Baracchi 50-mile champion with a competent 2-10:08 ride in the Godric CC 50-mile open time trial on the A11 on Sunday. Nicki Hawkes, riding for Team VeloVelocity.co.uk but also a VCB second-claim member, won the East District Cycling Association ladies’ championship in the same event with a 2-15:53 […]
Last Thursday’s East Anglian CC open 10-mile time trial on the A11 road was favoured by near perfect conditions and Lowestoftriders made the best of it. The fastest Velo Club Baracchi rider was Mark Newnham with 22:46. John Swanbury dipped under 24 minutes for the first time in four years with 23:48 and VCB secretary […]
Velo Club Baracchi riders are producing their fastest times of the year. At the Godric CC 10 on Tuesday Allistair Banks recorded 24:53, John Swanbury 25:43 and Mark Womack 25:37, rewriting his personal best. It was not a perfect night for fast rides, but at least it was much warmer. The winner was I Robertson […]