Velo Club Baracchi members are looking forward to their prize presentation evening this Saturday but in the meantime club chairman Brian Boxall has given them fulsome praise. Speaking at the annual meeting he complimented the racing members on good performances and also spoke of the twelve new time trial records amassed in the year by […]
Velo Club Baracchi riders enjoyed their usual two hill events on Sunday. One was a freewheeling competition from a standing start for the downhill experts and the other was a conventional hill climb. It was Keith Wink who took the VCB freewheeling trophy win on Jays Hill in Sotterley, when he set off from a […]
Velo Club Baracchi staged a low-key duathlon for members and friends to remember former club treasurer Keith Stephens, who died in a cycling accident in 2002. There were five competitors for the memorial trophy and interest centred on a tussle between Liam Gentry, whose cycling is stronger than his running and Carl Prewer, whose abilities […]
Velo Club Baracchi riders were seriously outnumbered in the 50-mile close of season reliability trial from Blundeston. It was the last event in the Holmes Cup series that also includes time trials and six VCB riders were there. Before this reliability trial the Lowestoft club was in the lead by nine points but this lead […]
Velo Club Baracchi ride John Thompson, whose enthusiasm is for audax events rather than time trials, rode the “Richard Ellis Memorial” 200-km audax on Saturday. Usually referred to as Audax UK, the association for these in the UK, was established in 1976. It oversees the running of long-distance cycling events, using a system of timed […]
Two performances stand out from the last local time-trial weekend of the season, a record-equalling tandem time by a new VC Baracchi team and a personal best for solo rider Alex He. Riding their first ever competitive event together in the Norwich Amateur Bicycle Club’s 10-mile tandem section in sunny weather on Saturday, Paul Dennington […]
A hugely successful open 10-mile time trial organised for Velo Club Baracchi by its vice-chairman and second-claim member Mark Richards featured a win by him in 20:47. Richards was riding for DAP CC. The results of VCB first claim members were headed by junior Lucas He, sixth in 21:31. Other VCB times were Mark Saunders, […]
Saturday’s rain caused cancellation of the CC Breckland 30-mile time trial on the A11, so VC Baracchi cyclists entered in it did not have any results to report. Kate Churchill of VCB was, however, busy for nine days recently in an event that the weather could not stop. She said, “I’ve just finished chaperoning on […]
Velo Club Baracchi junior rider Lucas He added to his excellent results with seventh place in the Norwich ABC open 10-mile time trial and the second-fastest ride in the following day’s Plomesgate CC open 10. VCB times in the NABC event were Lucas He 21:11, Paul Hayward 21:58, and Alex He 24:51. Harley Matthews of […]
In a great week for Velo Club Baracchi, veteran Chris Womack notched up a personal best 50-mile time on the A11 and Lucas He rode for the club in the RTTC 10-mile National Championship (Juniors) with a great result. 70-year-old Womack’s age-defying new personal best time, 2-01:42, was achieved in the CC Breckland open 50 […]
Velo Club Baracchi junior rider Lucas He set two more personal best times that significantly lowered the club junior records. In the CC Breckland open 25-mile time trial (which was re-run on Saturday after a cancellation) he set the new club benchmark at 53:31 and took tenth place, while the day before his new 10-mile […]
Paul Dennington of Velo Club Baracchi won the club’s 50-mile championship with a fine ride in the VCB open 50-mile time trial on the A143. His time was 2-04:36 and gave him the edge over Paul Hayward 2-05:02, Lucas He 2-06:02 and Alex He 2-17:10. Chris Womack packed. Lucas and his father Alex had not […]
Nick Esser earned points and preserved his second category status in the National Masters Criterium Championships, his last race in VC Baracchi colours before switching fully to DAP CC. This year the event was at Rockingham Raceway, a 1.5km circuit that was open & windswept in places, despite which the race was run at over […]
Paul Dennington secured the VC Baracchi Athletes’ Trophy, awarded for the best VCB ride with no aero aids in a nominated event. The Gt Yarmouth CC club 10 was used for this and Dennington achieved 25:11 on his road bike in competition with Paul Hayward (26:15) and Richard Allen (30:08). Riding on a time trial […]
Lucas He of Velo Club Baracchi won the top junior prize with 57:21 in King’s Lynn CC’s open 25-mile time trial on undulating single carriageway roads from Fincham towards Mundham. His time was also good enough for sixth place overall and his dad Alex He won third prize on handicap with 1-07:22 despite having suffered […]
Junior rider Lucas He of VC Baracchi became the club’s 10-mile champion with a stunning 21:36 personal best in the Godric club time trial last week. Other VCB times were Paul Hayward 22:41, Paul Dennington 23:04, Paul Reed, 25:45 and John Swanbury 26:02. Second claim VCB members Liam Gentry and Mark Richards, now riding for […]
Velo Club Baracchi was well represented in the Godric CC 10-mile club time trial last week, with the top rides of the night. VCB riders were Mark Richards 21:11, Liam Gentry 21:21, Lucas He 22:37, Paul Hayward 22:38, Paul Dennington 23:12, Alex He 25:29 (PB) and on the tandem John Swanbury and Ali Banks 22:54. […]
In a busy week for Lowestoft’s cycling club, Velo Club Baracchi, Mark Richards set a 50-mile time trial club record and members staged the Summer Road Race at Ringsfield, in which Nick Esser took ninth place. Richards was riding in the Shaftesbury CC 50-mile time trial on the A14 and A11 dual carriageways in the […]
Paul Dennington of Velo Club Baracchi won the club’s 30-mile championship with an overall win in Gt Yarmouth CC’s club event on the Somerleyton course on Sunday. Dennington’s time was 1-12:36 and his clubmate Paul Hayward in fourth place gave great competition with a 1-14:38 ride, with Richard Allen on 1-29:34. It was G Yarmouth […]
Paul Hayward of Velo Club Baracchi rode well in the Norwich ABC 10-mile open time trial, to record 22:21. Chris Womack made a comeback from injury to his ribs and toe that he recently sustained in a tripping accident and managed the good time of 24:50. The event was on the A143 road from the […]
Mark Saunders and Paul Hayward of Velo Club Baracchi were both in the top ten at Iceni Velo’s 10-mile open time trial on Saturday. Saunders took fifth place with 22:38 and Hayward was tenth with 22:46. Daniel Bloy of Team VeloVelocity won in 20: 34 from his team-mate Stuart Fairweather 21:18 and Iceni Velo’s Matt […]