Velo Club Baracchi’s reliability rides went ahead on Sunday and were well supported despite the particularly cold start. The organiser, John Thompson, set off for the 4-hour target (finishing in 3:48), followed by Alex He and Paul Dennington aiming for and easily achieving 3.5 hours. The main group of eleven riders set off in the […]
Velo Club Baracchi’s reliability rides have been postponed from last Sunday to this one, amidst safety concerns about the conditions on minor roads during the cold snap. Hopefully the postponement will ensure that the rides go ahead in reasonable conditions and will be well-supported. Traditionally, on the British cycling scene, the purpose of such rides […]
After the excitements of the time trial of the previous week, Velo Club Baracchi riders reverted to more normal winter activities. On a lovely morning two riders turned out for the usual club ride; Chris Womack and Paul Read. They covered 50 miles to Halesworth, Wissett, Homersfield, Bungay, Ellingham Mill, Beccles, Ellough and home. The […]
Despite all the drizzle and mist that could be imagined on a New Year’s Day, three VC Baracchi riders completed CC Breckland’s New Year’s Day 10-mile time trial. Liam Gentry took third place, with Mark Richards fifth and Nick Esser ninth. The event was transferred from the A11, as the main road was awash with […]
Five Velo Club Baracchi riders have entered CC Breckland’s New Year’s Day open time trial to be held on the A11 road near Wymondham. The total number of riders entered, thirty, is rather smaller than usual for this out of season 10-mile event. VCB riders, if all can take part, will be Liam Gentry, Mark […]
On Sunday there were four Velo Club Baracchi riders on the 8.30am club run and they went out to Langley via Ilketshall St Andrew, Bungay and Ditchingham, returning through Haddiscoe and St Olaves. At Langley they had coffee and cake in the new coffee shop at “In a Spin” cycles. Taking part were Alex and […]
On Sunday the Velo Club Baracchi riders on the club run covered 50 miles in Suffolk and Norfolk. Seven riders met at the Cotmer Road roundabout at 8.30am, hoping to meet up with a faster group and stay with them for a short time. The plans to meet failed when the faster group suffered some […]
The wind for Velo Club Baracchi’s Sunday rides was in the east, so the favourite “tailwind home” kind of route was impossible. The faster group started early and went via Bungay, Halesworth to Framlingham, returning by way of Leiston and Southwold. Liam Gentry, Nick Esser, Mark Richards, Lucas He, George Kerridge, James Moore, Mark Saunders […]
Velo Club Baracchi riders gathered for the club run on Sunday but before long had divided into several different groups. The fastest group was driven along by the efforts of Liam Gentry, Mark Richards and Nick Esser and it included Keith Wink and others. They covered 74 miles by taking a loop that included Norwich, […]
After his stellar season as Velo Club Baracchi’s best veteran, club members voted Chris Womack their Rider of the Year at the trophy presentation night, presided over by the club chairman Brian Boxall at the Carlton public house. Womack had set new veteran records at 10, 25 and 50 miles to win the trophies at […]
At Velo Club Baracchi’s annual meeting the club’s year was summed up by club chairman Brian Boxall as absolutely outstanding. He said that in the twenty-seven years or so during which he had been part of the club he had never known a season quite like this one. The club had staged two 10-mile open […]
On Sunday, when Velo Club Baracchi riders usually gather for a club run, the cold and windy weather discouraged many. Though other riders, including Liam Gentry, were out getting in the miles, Paul Dennington found no other takers at the usual meeting place and time. He rode towards Halesworth and saw only one other cyclist […]
Velo Club Baracchi riders enjoyed two hill events on Sunday. One was a freewheeling competition for the downhill experts and the other was a conventional hill climb. It was Paul Hayward who took the VCB freewheeling trophy win on Jays Hill in Sotterley, when he set off from a standing start atop the hill and […]
Internationally competitive triathlete Joe Skipper was a local hero when he returned to his roots to win a short informal duathlon arranged by Velo Club Baracchi, Lowestoft’s cycling club. The small low key event for members and friends of the club to honour the memory of the late Keith Stephens has taken place annually since […]
The last local open time trials of the year took place at the weekend, hosted on the A143 Waveney Valley course by Norwich Amateur Bicycle Club and based at Wortwell Community Centre. Mark Richards of Velo Club Baracchi was in the frame to win the Saturday afternoon 10, which had attracted over ninety entries, but […]
Mark Richards of Velo Club Baracchi club headed up a clean VCB sweep of the top three places in the club’s own 10-mile open time trial on Saturday, which he also organised. His top ride was backed up by Liam Gentry and James Moore in second and third places and the three of them accordingly […]
Mark Richards of Velo Club Baracchi took fourth place in the CC Breckland open time trial on the A11 on Sunday after a good showing in an open 10 the day before. James Moore of VCB rode a personal best in the 50-mile event and Chris Womack rode a season’s best. Richards’ Saturday ride was […]
Chris Womack of Velo Club Baracchi rode a remarkable personal best on Saturday in the Team Swift open 10-mile time trial near Hull. His 400-mile journey to and from the event was well rewarded by a stunning 21:49 time, lopping 24 seconds off his previous best. Womack, a perennial youngster aged sixty-nine and three quarters […]
Two of Velo Club Baracchi’s veteran riders took part in the VTTA East Anglian 10-mile time trial on the A11 south of Newmarket on Saturday despite a dire weather forecast and came away happy. The forecast had been for heavy rain and gusting winds but it turned out to be more mixed, with dry spells, […]
Mark Richards of Velo Club Baracchi set a new club record at 25 miles in the Team VeloVelocity open event on the E2 course based near Newmarket on Saturday, featuring fast A14 and A11 dual carriageways. It was a windy day and there were some fast times by those who kept a good pace into […]
A great week for Velo Club Baracchi riders included a team prize in the VC Norwich open 10, third place in the same event for Mark Richards with a time nearly equal to his personal best and a new lifetime personal best for Nick Esser in a 10-mile event near Hull. VCB won the team […]