4 up time trial....addiscombe swats mosquitos...

[Paul H]

Blimey weve gone from 1st to 10th. We probably lost a minute due to traffic and lack of marshalling.

That has to be the worst marshalled event this year.

[Tamar]

Nice work boys. Not bad at all for a bunch of non-testers.

[-Adam-]

Good stuff guys...

So we gonna do over the Paragon next tuesday then!?

I really want us to beat them, it aint gonna be easy, but im well up for it!

[Stu Merckx Man]

bad news, we came 11th

[Sylv]

Yeah I saw that … at this rate we'll be behind the Mosquitos soon!

[Toks]

Did anyone else notice how two teams with a number of Elite riders only placed 3rd and 4th

TT - 35 Miles
Pos Name Club/Team Cat 1st lap time Finish Time
1 David Gardener London Dynamo B 2 00:39:00 01:17:53
Matt Bridge London Dynamo B 3
Richard Simmonds London Dynamo B 1
James Stratton London Dynamo B 4
2 Steve Calland Norwood Paragon A 1 00:39:04 01:18:41
Dave Kennett Norwood Paragon A 2V
Justin Lomas Norwood Paragon A 1
Mike Hawkins Norwood Paragon A 2
[color=blue]3 Chris Partlett Wildside RT 1 00:40:02 01:19:14
Chris MacNamara Wildside RT E
Simon MacNamara Wildside RT 1
Toby Neave Wildside RT E[/color]
[color=blue]4 Roger Morgan VC Meudon E 00:39:37 01:20:02
Steve Richards VC Meudon E
David Creegan VC Meudon 2
Tim Elverson VC Meudon E[/color]
5 Rudie Marais Team De Ver/Neovite 2 00:40:30 01:21:18
Julius Misiunas Team De Ver/Neovite 3
Vaughan Luff Team De Ver/Neovite 3
Mark O'Brien Team De Ver/Neovite 3

[Tony]

Toks - I can shed a little light.....

Firstly for the Wildside RT, Chris Parlett missed the start - so they were riding a three-up not a four-up. The McNamara brothers are both great road racers - but neither are particularly experienced time-trialers - not by comparison with their road-racing.

As for the VC Meudon boys - I don't believe Roger Morgan is still an Elite. He got married last year and didn't do a lot of racing.

Finally, there are elites and elites, if you get my drift. The gap between the 'stronger' elites and the 'weaker' ones is about the same as the gap between a 'weaker' elite and an 'avarage' fourth-cat IMHO - i.e. not all elites are fully-deserving on the title.