This very successful event was held at the Crofters Garstang last Sunday afternoon and attended by over forty friends and guests.

President Frank Kerry welcomed the guests and the prizes were presented by guests of honour Simon Wilson of Ribble Pro Cycling and Rebecca Rimmington of Team Merlin Cycles. Simon aka “The Burnley Valverde” has just been recently crowned World Champion at the UCI World Masters Track Champs in the 35-39 years old Scratch Race, he also broke the 30mph barrier for 25 miles this season on the notoriously slow Cheshire course J2/9.

Rebecca is a former GB cycling squad member, Professional rider with the WNT Cycling team and a former GB rower.  She now competes in triathlon having recently won her age group in the
70.3km Challenge Majorca Tri.

The prize winners were introduced by Matt Stell and following the presentations Si and Bex took part in a hugely entertaining and informative questions and answer session.

Among the presentations was one for the George Nowland Memorial Trophy in memory of NLTTA past chairman and supporter George Nowland. The trophy was presented to Richard Bideau of Pendle Forest CC by Val Nowland and her family.

Your NLTTA hill climb champions for 2019 are:

Male: Alex O’Brien (Garstang CC) 2:27.9
Female: Erica Booth (Lancashire RC) 3:51.6
Junior: Francis Woodcock (Bury Clarion CC) 2:47.6
Team: Barrow Central Wheelers (D. Huck, R. Helm, R. Morgan) 8:43.6

The race was held on the Ramsbottom Rake promoted by Lancashire RC in slippery damp road conditions.

The season long points competition came to an end last weekend with Richard Bideau of Pendle Forest CC coming out on top with a maximum 960 points followed closely by Philip Jones of Transition RT with 959 points. Richard Bickley, Border City Wheelers is 3rd with 954 points. Charlotte Boothman, ABC Centreville won the Women’s competition with 888 points from her 8 rides.

The team winners are the Coveryourcar.co.uk RT trio of John Morgan, Dan Taylor and Paul Blackburn.

The Junior winner is Tristan Pilling, Team SB Hub with 783 points and the Juvenile champ is Aidan Lawrence, Green Jersey RT.

Other category winners:

M40: Andrew Whiteside, Bella in Sella 950 points
M50: Paul Fleming, Preston Wheelers 923 points
M60: Peter Leonard, Southport CC 817 points
M70: David Hargreaves, North Lancs RC 794 points

Following the final counting events at the weekend, Philip Jones, Transition RT and Charlotte Boothman, ABC Centreville are the confirmed 2019 Speed BAR champions. The competition is based on your best 2 counting 10’s and 25’s throughout the season and after a fantastic 19:09 in the weekends Springfield Financial RT 10 on Levens, Phil improved his average speed to 30.438mph to beat Richard Bickley, Border City Wheelers who also improved at the weekend with 30.376mph.

The Team winners are Pendle Forest CC, the trio of Richard Bideau (who also won the M40 category), Paul Braithwaite and Andrew Dent averaged 28.732mph; followed by Coveryourcar.co.uk RT (John Morgan, Paul Blackburn and Paul Shallicker) averaging 27.988mph.

The Junior BAR champion is Tristan Pilling of Team SB Hub with a super 27.235mph average speed.

Other winners:

W40: Deborah Moss, Team Merlin 26.261mph
W50: Sue Cheetham, North Lancs RC 24.410mph
M50: Paul Fleming, Preston Wheelers 28.248mph
M60: Peter Leonard, Southport CC 26.715mph
M70+: David Hargreaves, North Lancs RC 25.963mph

NLTTA Speed BAR 2019 – excel

Congratulations to Andrew Whiteside (Bella in Sella) who has won the NLTTA distance BAR championships with an impressive average speed of 26.347 mph over the classic distances of 50, 100 & 12 hour. 2nd place was a hard fought battle between Dan Shackleton (ABC Centreville), Paul Blackburn (Coveryourcar.co.uk RT) and Aidan Holgate (North Lancs RC) with Dan recording 24.759 mph, Paul 24.259 mph and Aidan 24.126 mph. In the recent 12 hour event they were split by a few miles with Dan recording 258.68 miles, Aidan 258.09 miles and Paul 255.03 miles; Andrew Whiteside was our fastest rider who claimed 2nd place overall in the event with 281.08 miles in challenging conditions. Paul Russell (Springfield Financial RT) was our final qualifier with 22.993 mph