Lewes Evening Criterium - 4th/11th/18th June 09

[Snoop Doug]

Yup - always liked that Kev feller, wicked

[John the old'un]

[quote="Keith"]How I did in the race is irrelevant since after the finish the commissionaire said he was going to disqualify me.
At the pre-race briefing the commissionaire, as is normal, reminded us that the rules of the road applied to us, including crossing solid white lines, explicitly stating that infringements risked disqualification.
Hence I can have no argument with the commissionaire's decision since I did cross the line, even if only once, and did gain position in doing so.

[Keith]

So it's week 2 of 3.

I managed to not get disqualified this week . I certainly didn't cross an solid white lines, although I did notice quite a few others doing so.

The course is the large triangle of roads on this map.
[img]http://i42.tinypic.com/2hexb9x.jpg[/img]
The race is dominated by a strong south westerly wind.

5 laps, with primes on laps 2, 3 and 4.

On lap 1, on one of those tricky straight, wide, smooth roads there was a crash . I managed to steer around it. There wasn't much of the characteristic noise of carbon on tarmac, so I suspect most fell into the verge. Speaking to the Commissaire (thanks John the old'un) afterwards, nobody was seriously hurt.

Anyway, a break of 4 riders gets away on the 2nd lap.

Now in the field of 70-ish riders there's over 20 riders from just 2 local clubs, including the club hosting the event. There's no representative from either of these clubs in the break. I hedge my bets on a serious chase being organised. It doesn't materialise, so I have to settle for 5th.

[Snoop Doug]

Well done on 5th place Keith, good work. The roads, not so much a large triangle as maybe a sandwich with a bite taken out?

[Andy E]

Mmm.. Sandwiches...

Good work Keith, can't believe the big teams didn't try and close the break down.

[Toks]

Well done Keith There's a few pics of you on this website
http://ontherivet.ning.com/