It’s the closed season for most competitors, but the crossers have been out most weekends, and Alan Trolove recently competed in the Future Stars at the second Revolution meeting of the season at the Manchester Velodrome ~ highlights of which were shown on ITV4 last Monday, with a certain Mark Cavendish winning the Elite Scratch race. Alan rode to sixth place in the Devil, 13^th in the Points race and 15^thin the Scratch race. This lifts him to 12^th in the Future Stars League and he is hoping to be invited back for Rounds 3 and 4 on January 7 and 28 respectively.

As regards CycloCross we rode a new course at Grafham Water near Huntingdon on November 13, and the very bumpy surface made riding very tiring. Richard Muchmore excelled with 4^th in the Vets, followed by Mike Bowen 10^th, Barry Denny 32^nd, Paul Barry 42^nd, with Richard Stiff 28^th in the Jnr/Snr race.

November 20^th we rode at Hempton, near Fakenham on their exciting course of woodland and bomb-holes. Richard Muchmore and Mike Bowen again did us proud in the Vets, in 3^rd and 6^th respectively, with Barry Denny and Paul Barry 32nd and 42^nd. Richard Stiff was 41^stin an enlarged field in the Jnr/Snr event.

26 November 2011.  There were five West Suffolk Wheelers in action at the cyclo-cross meeting at Redgrave this afternoon.  Most riders found the grassy non-technical course pretty tough going.  However, it didn’t seem to affect Mike Bowen too badly as he continued his run of excellent results finishing 5th in the Veterans race and currently lies in 6^th position overall in the league standings. In the same race, Paul Barry finished 43^rd closely followed by Barry Denny in 44^th with Adi Grimwood arriving in 52^nd place. In the Seniors race, Matt Eaglen finished 43^rd.  In the Club classification, West Suffolk Wheelers currently lie in 9^th position with two rounds to go.