Track Racing

Track Day at Welwyn’s Gosling Park Velodrome

Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:08 |

The club’s Track Day at Welwyn’s Gosling Park Velodrome went well on Saturday May 26. We had four experienced trackies, five newcoming youngsters and three adult first timers as well as Brian Alldis showing a good turn of speed on his hand bike. Neville Pettitt, ably assisted by David Ballam and Hannah Brookman conducted the proceedings to a session plan that we have used previously. Nine of our party hired bikes and after sorting these for size they were very soon getting to grips with fixed wheel and no brakes, initially on the running track and within no time on the banked tarmac track.

Young Guns Go Well at Easter

Sunday, 15 April 2012 15:54 |

Two of our promising young riders did us proud over the Easter Weekend.

Will Mapus-Smith is in his first full season of racing after a hard winter’s training and is already showing the sort of form that has been observed on club runs. Competing against a strong field of competitive Under 16’s at the Redbridge Hogg Hill Circuit Will came in a very creditable fifth, and is certainly making an impression. Watch out for his results as the season progresses.

Good Ride at Hogg Hill

Friday, 16 March 2012 21:44 |

Young Will Mapus-Smith made his racing debut last year in the Under 14s at the Ixworth crits and had a couple of other outings in which he showed good promise. Since then he has been a regular on the Sunday Expresso club runs, and some Wednesdays during school holidays. He as also been following a tough training schedule during the winter months whilst away at boarding school, making good use of his turbo.. Last Saturday he had his first outing of the season at the Hogg Hill circuit at Redbridge, now as a first year under 16. He rode well in the very competitive pack for 40 minutes at an average speed of 22.5mph, just fading in the last lap as the pace at the front picked up, but finished a creditable 18^th out of 40 odd starters. Good ride ~ there’s more to come!

Will has now been joined in the club by his brother Behn, who was out on last week’s club run. These young riders ~ indeed all our young riders ~ need our support, advice and encouragement. They represent the future of the club and cycling in general.

Last Updated (Friday, 06 April 2012 07:09)

Revolution 4

Sunday, 29 January 2012 21:04 |

Written by David Young |

Alan Trolove was invited to the final revolution with Sir Chris Hoy as the star attraction.
Earlier he had taken part in a Madison as asupport race to the National Madison Champs. He was partnered with jack hoyle from the south east. They rode well & stayed with the bunch which reached speeds of 37mph but werw unable to capitalise on the sprints & obtain points.
Later in revo meeting he came 16th in scratch. 6th in six lap dash & 10th in points race. These results are only provisional and are awaiting confirmed results as well as final overall position.
He has really enjoyed being part of the revolution but now turns his attention to the road with his first race in march.

Last Updated (Tuesday, 07 February 2012 12:26)

Revolution round 1 2011

Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:26 |

Written by David Young |

Alan Trolove from west suffolk wheelers and tri club had great time at Revolution riding for Rapha-Condor Team.
The Future Stars had 3 races as follows:-
Scratch - 20laps (5km)

6 lap Dash
Points Race 20laps (points every 5laps)

The standard of riding was very high and racing was hard and furious.
Many of the country's top riders race on the velodrome every week so it was going to be a tough challenge for Alan but he rode well and strongly.
In the scratch he faded in the last couple of laps to come about 17th.
His best result came in the 6 lap dash with a 7th place.
In the points race he worked hard and tried to bridge a gap (unsuccessfully) and paid for this effort and faded again at the end to come about 20th.

Each rider was given a bag of goodies from Rapha-Condor which includes Skinsuit, T-Shirt, Track Suit and Cap all of which they are allowed to keep!!

He is possibly going to be asked back to ride the next Revolution on Nov 19th with Star Riders Geriant Thomas, Ed Clancy and Mark Cavendish. We are just waiting for confirmation of this. Sounds like another great night.

Last Updated (Friday, 18 November 2011 16:20)

National Track Championships

Sunday, 28 August 2011 18:33 |

Written by David Young |

Last week Alan Trolove took part in the National Track Championships which were held at Manchester Veldorome. Here are Alans results.

2km Pursuit - 2:34:778 Pos. 29th
Not his favourite discipline but it was a personal best.

5km Scratch Heat 2 Qualifier - 5th
10km Scratch Final - 16th

8km Points Heat 2 Qualifier - 10th
15km Points Final - 12th

Flying 200m Sprint Qualifier - 12:478 Pos. 20th
Missed qualifying by 100th of second

Alan had a good time and happy with results, felt he put in a solid performance during some very fast, hard and demanding racing.

Last Updated (Sunday, 16 October 2011 19:32)

More Articles...

New Website

Track Racing

Track Day at Welwyn’s Gosling Park Velodrome

Young Guns Go Well at Easter

Good Ride at Hogg Hill

Revolution 4

Revolution round 1 2011

National Track Championships