teamwallis-CHH Cycling Team

A great weekend's racing for teamwallis-CHH.

On his 18th birthday, Lewis got 14th in the Eddie Soens classic, part of a legendary group of juniors who set off at a blistering pace and caught the Elite riders who never had chance to make up the lap they had lost - a real turn-up!

The same day, Steve got 12th in the National B race at the Paramount race in Shrewsbury, Andy Mc finishing in the bunch in the Regional B race.

More images here.

Sunday saw the first CDNW races of the season, at Treales. Andy Coupe secured a fantastic 10th place in the National B race against tough Elite competition. In the Regional B race, James got himself on the podium, with a great 3rd place and Gareth won the Primes competition. Read more ...

After Jack's win on Saturday, Lewis Balyckyi rounded off a great first weekend of road racing for teamwallis-CHH in 2010 with the First Junior prize in the Clayton Velo Spring Classic, finishing ahead of many Elite riders such as Malcolm Elliot.

UPDATE: Some BC photos here and (lots!) of photos from Christine Holmes here. Read more ...

Luke and Julian gained some good experience riding the National Senior Madison Championship at the Revolution 28 meeting on Manchester Velodrome. The junior team rode well in a very fast, tactical and physical race that was dominated by BC Academy and ODP riders. Although they didn't manage to finish, along with several other teams, they rode well for the team and showed that in the future they could be very competitive in this event that is physically and mentally very demanding. Winners were Atkins and Rowsell of 100%ME with an average speed over 31 mph for 200 laps.

Congratulations to new teamwallis-CHH junior rider Jack Bowyer, who won today at the Salt Ayre TLI circuit race.

Great start :-)

On Saturday, Luke attended the DHL sprint final.

The day consisted of team wattbike races and a roller session in the morning and kieren sprints in the afternoon with the kieren final in the evening just before the revoloution 27.

Luke and his team did well on the watt bikes, only getting beaten in the semi final. Then Tim Buckle led a mass roller session for all 50 cyclists. Read more ...

This is the Cyclo-Cross National Championships Preview from British cycling:

The junior Men's event will be one of the most eagerly awaited of the weekend, with this season's national racing being of a high standard. Two riders really stand out: Tom Moses, the defending champion has two national series wins under his belt this season and has wrapped up the series with a series of consistent rides; Daniel McClay has beaten Moses twice and won twice himself and got the better of their excellent battle at Bradford in early December. McClay's power might just give him the edge on the fast Sutton Coldfield course, whilst Moses may prefer it if it's icy or very wet. Read more ...

I rode the Notts and Derby cyclocross race at Thornbridge this weekend.

It was a cold day and the course was very slippery. With the snow coming down at the start of the race it was pretty slippery round some of the corners, which came to my advantage. Read more ...

This weekend I went to Belgium as part of a Yorkshire team funded by the Yorkshire cyclocross association and the Keith Edwards cyclocross fund. We did a double race weekend, racing in Lictervelde and Uitbergen. Conditions in Belgium were very cold, the mornings were -6 and whilst racing in the afternoon it was -2. This meant fast icy and snowy conditions which needed a lot of power to be able to power along the rutted snow and good bike handling skills to corner on the slippery corners. Read more ...

Today was the fifth round of the National Trophy series in Bradford. My race went well and only a crash prevented me from staying with the winner Dan McLay. However, getting second was enough for me to win the overall National Trophy series with one round to go. Here is the report from British Cycling of my race: Read more ...

This Sunday I was at Thornes Park in Wakefield for the North of England Championships. Due to the past few weeks' heavy rain the course was a muddy one. It was very technical, with some long flat parts where you could get your power out. I had an average start, going into the first technical section in second wheel. During this first technical section I used my skills to open a small gap on the rest of the field. Initially I thought I had gone too early in the race. Read more ...