Results

RACE RESULTS | HAGLEY – HOGGS LANE – BLACK HILLS – HAGLEY STATION LANE X3 LAPS
A great day of racing on a multi-lap course that delivered up a worthy winner!
We have a whole bunch of photos from our last race today thanks to Matt Breakspear so please check them out. We also welcomed aboard new rider Hordur Gudmundsson who has recently moved to Tassie from another sunning part of the world, Iceland.
Due to the silly season – Christmas gatherings etc and being asleep all afternoon, I can’t get a more extensive race write up done today. If I get a chance I’ll add some more details later.
Finishing on the podium today were two of the hardest working riders in any handicap race and another who is moving up the grades week after week.
Crossing the line in first place was the super strong Scott Miller who excelled in today’s blustery conditions. In second place and just behind the winner was James McKee who moved up this week to form a formidable trio with Scott and Pat. That leaves us with Pat Coe the final rider to make up the podium, losing out in sprint to line and crossing just a couple seconds down. The first female today was Melissa Snadden and fastest time was Martin Simpson.
🥇 Scott Miller
🥈 James Mc
🥉 Patrick Coe
FF Melissa Snadden
FT Martin Simpson
Congratulations everyone on another 12 months of masters racing with NVCC. Thank you to everyone who rode with us this year.

RACE REPORT | FINNS BODYWORKS GRAHAM KEARNEY MEMORIAL BLACKWOOD CREEK 70
💥 Excellent racing today everyone. Thank you for turning out on a day where the BOM app provided plenty of reasons to stay in bed!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Thanks to Gene and
Finn’s Bodyworks for their support, to Phil Stevenson, Debrah Rowlands and Michael Dalton for volunteering their time and to Ricky Allen and Shane Revell for today’s handicaps.
Today’s race followed a modified course from Bishopsboune out and back to the bottom of Blackwood Creek followed by two loops of the Armstrongs lane circuit.
We had a good field of 20 riders today and the first rider to set off was Di Ottaway at 9:40am. Leigh and Tony were next, then Chris Colley, Burf, and Pete Dadson, followed by Scotty Smith, Pat Coe and Ricky Allen.
Perhaps due to the forecast a couple of riders didn’t make it to the start line today and so after some reshuffling the rest of the field was sorted into 3 groups of Andy Wells, Kaine Arkley and Scott Miller, Gene Finn, Dave Bingley and Martin Simpson, and the strong partnership of Nic Kerkham and Paul McKenzie.
🌊 What wasn’t known to the riders after the race commenced was that the turn around at Blackwood Creek was flooded and so the turnaround was set up just before the road became impassable. It soon became clear to the riders that the race distance was going to be short and the handicaps were going to be way out.
Nevertheless, everyone raced on and based on the average speeds today there were some excelllent rides! Di rode exceptionally well with Tony and Leigh making little impact on her initial head start. Chris, Pete and Burf held off the chasing group of Smithy, Pat and Ricky. Andy Wells made a comeback to racing and helped his bunch along with some solid pacemaking and Nic put in a big shift working with Macca in pursuit of Dave, Marty and Gino.
Due to the situation with the shortened course and it being too difficult to communicate any change of the course length to the riders the placings were dominated by the front markers.
Di crossed the line solo, followed by Tony – out sprinting Leigh who we understand turned the knife every time they went up hill, the Leigh – who may have burned too many matches working Tony over! Soon after it was the turn of Chris Colley to kick and leave his bunch mates in his wake – he’s back and showing some form – then it was Burf crossing for 5th place just ahead of Peter Dadson. In the race for fastest time Paul McKenzie just edged Nic at the line – probably comfortably based on a visual assessment of the pair after the race.
While the turnaround situation was a shame, no one had a bad race today and after all the work then went into rescheduling, it was good to see the race held annually in memory of rider Graeme Kearney go ahead.
🏆 Diane Ottaway
🥈 Tony Savage
🥉 Leigh Pridmore
4th Chris Colley
5th Tim Burford
Fastest
⏱️ Paul Mckenzie
🚴🏼‍♀️ Di Ottaway

RACE REPORT: LONGFORD-BRACKNELL-LONGFORD
It was touch and go yesterday as to whether we would race today but late in the afternoon we got the numbers and go ahead to race. Thank you to everyone who signed up and got us over the line.
We had a small field of 11 riders today after a couple of late withdrawals but the racing was solid as always nonetheless. Thank you to Ricky Allen for some last minute juggling around with handicaps and Race Director Patrick Coe for taking it all in his stride.
We set off with Diane Ottaway first today, followed by the group of Tony Savage, Dean Mason and Leigh Pridmore at 9:30, then Craig Burrows, Peter Dadson, Garry Cooper and James McKee on 17 minutes. Dylan Forbes set off on 18 minutes with Martin Simpson 4:30 after and Nic Kerkham 1:15 later.
The conditions were sunny and warm but windy, basically typical for the midlands. The course starts with a draggy section that trends uphill to the Wilmores Lane junction followed by Maitland Lane and Armstrongs Lane and passing through Bishopsbourne. From my perspective, Nic caught me quickly, a little before Bishopsbourne and we began to work together in pursuit of the riders in front.
Somewhere around the end of the first lap of the Bracknell-Pitts Lane loop, the group of 4 riders was caught by Dylan and splintered as Craig, James and Garry were able to follow. Peter was distanced and short while later Garry followed.
James next found himself off the back and Dylan and Craig passed the group of Tony, Dean and Leigh. Dylan was riding well and after leaving Bracknell rode away from Craig onto Liffey Road.
With the headwinds behind them Nic and Martin were in hot pursuit now. Crossing the bridge out of Bracknell they had James in their sights and rounding the corner they could see Tony, Dean and Leigh on the climb before the decent to Liffey Road.
Still working well together the duo passed the at speed, a little before the crest and rounded the corner onto the Liffey Road in search of Craig and Dylan. As the pass was made, Craig who is in very good form right now, managed to get on with the pursuers.
Closing on Dylan, Craig was dropped. Then the junction came with Dylan which lasted for a couple of kilometres before the rise into Bishopsbourne saw Dylan lose the wheel. Still riding hard, Dylan wasn’t far behind as Nic and Martin hit the front passing Di before Wilmores Lane.
It looked like the gentlemen’s agreement would continue all that way to sprint for the line but with 2 km to go, in an underhanded move that any Movistar rider would be proud of, Martin attacked his comrade after a solid turn and with the gap established the race was decided.
Dylan was third after a very impressive ride and the fastest went to Nic Kerkham who split the prize pot with Martin for a grand total of $20 each 💰
Thanks everyone for today. It doesn’t take many to have a fun race and give 100%. Hope to see a few more riders coming back before we wrap up for the Christmas break. As James Mc says there’s no better training than racing.
🥇 Martin Simpson
🥈 Nic Kerkham
🥉 Dylan Forbes
F/T Nic Kerkham

The 2024 Launceston to Campbell Town Classic was run and won today in warm and windy spring conditions.
A field of 20 riders contested the race over the traditional 63km course starting at Longford Village Green and finishing in Campbell Town, outside 17 Pedder Street to be precise!
It’s a course that throws up a different race each year as the race starts to come together on the climb to Valleyfield Road and the 6km of undulating roads to the finish.
Getting away early at 9:50am was Di Ottway, followed by Leigh Pridmore on 5.15, Brenden Paul Simpson-Kitt, Tony Savage, Julian Clayton, and Pat Oldham on 13:00, James McKee,
Tim Burford, Peter Dadson and Melissa Snadden on 21:30, Alex Demeyer, Patrick Coe, Alex Robinson and Craig Burrows on 31:00, Martin Simpson, James Nevin, and new riders Alberto García Gómez and Peter Jeffers on 38:30, then Paul Mckenzie on 40:15 and finally Will Clarke on 45 minutes.
The riders set off into a stiff southerly of around 10km/h which became stronger as the race went on making for conditions that generally favour the back markers. However, with a small field of back markers it wasn’t a certainty that they would get to the front of the race.
Setting off in pursuit of Di and Leigh was the first group of Brenden Simpson-Kitt which soon went from 4 to 2 with Brenden and Julian riding away from Tony and Pat, who continued in ernest together while their bunch mates started to put some distance into them.
Following was the group of James McKee, who were swapping off well and closing the gap to the riders distanced from the group in front. Alex Demeyer, returning to racing after a few weeks off was doing a power of work by all accounts in the next chasing group with Pat, Robbo and Craig in pursuit.
With a gap of 7 and a half minutes to them, the last bunch of Martin Simpson and James Nevin was making short work of Longford to Cressy. With small groups and the conditions, track turns were the order of the day which suited endurance riders and newcomers to the club Alberto and Pete.
With a mountain of work to do to close the gap to the front markers, Paul Mackenzie joined forces with solo scratch rider Will Clarke soon after Cressy and quickly established an understanding.
By the approach to the climb to the Valleyfield Road intersection, the bunches were starting to catch eachother. Out in-front, Leigh had overtaken Di and Julian, who had worked over Brenden on the hills, over the crest and into the final 6km. Marty, James, Alberto and Pete, passed Pat and then Tony before turning onto the climb with the two remaining bunches in their sights.
Alex Demeyer sensing the catch was about to be mate attacked his bunch mates riding across and straight over the top of James McKee’s bunch. The group of Martin and Jimmy was approaching at pace, going past the bunches of McKee and Robinson on the climb and distancing Alberto and Peter before the top.
Descending the other side Marty and Jimmy were joined by Alex and worked together for a few minutes before Alex found himself in difficulty. Marty and Jimmy passed Di Ottway and were in pursuit of Leigh when they were joined by Will and Macca. With only 2km to go the quartet passed Leigh and after a quick headcount, pressed on for the line.
Taking the final podium place in a sprint with Paul McKenzie it was Will Clark, with Brenden having finished 2nd already behind Julian who proved to be simply too strong on the rolling terrain. Congratulations to Julian on a gutsy performance to hold off the back markers today.
Final results:
🥇 Julian Clayton
🥈 Brendon Simpson-Kitt
🥉 Will Clark
4th Paul McKenzie
⏱️ Will Clark – Fastest Time
🚴🏼‍♀️ Melissa Snadden – First Female
Thank you to everyone who raced today, the volunteers who made everything so smooth, particularly at registration and getting the riders away.
It was really good seeing everyone talking about the race afterwards at the
Midlands Bowls and Community Club who put on a great spread for us thanks to
Zane Carr and the best part was that no one needed to take any food away with them

A quality field of 20 courageous riders set of from Bracknell in todays NVCC club race in challenging windy conditions. The E graders Leigh, Patrick, Tony and David made solid progress on the first lap of this 50km event, however they were caught at half way by a very determined and organised C grade group of Scott, Dylan, Andy, and Lance. Obviously E and D grade were doing it tough in the conditions and maybe needed a little more time from the handicapper. Meanwhile, B grade who had started strongly in the cross winds, and caught Ricky by the Cluan turn, turned on the pace towards Bracknell causing division in the group. They lost Shane, then Phil – leaving Marty, James, and Zane to press on to catch the riders in front.
At the Whitemore turn of the 2nd lap they caught Burf’s D graders, however in the chase to Leigh’s front group they lost Zane.
From the lead car I could finally see Marty and James in pursuit of the C graders, plus a more distant figure of our lone Scratch rider, Will Clarke, doing an awesome job on his own to make up ground.
As Marty began to think he could make it across the gap, Scott Miller applied pressure to drive the C graders home over the final kms to the line.
The uphill sprint finish was then on in earnest with Andy and Lance neck a neck over the last 100 metres in a dramatic fight for victory.
At the line it was Andy who prevailed by half a wheel over Lance, with Dylan on their wheel in 3rd. Scott was 4th a few bike lengths back. A mighty effort by Marty saw him pull away from James to come in next about 10 seconds behind the winners. A short distance back came the powerful Will Clarke in a tremendous ride for fastest time and 7th overall.
The remainder of the field came home over the next few minutes in Brown’s cows formation – apparently citing issues with the wind as impacting their performances.
Congratulations to all riders today and thank you to all helpers out there – a tough day in the wind for Melissa on corner Marshall duty.
Results:
1st – Andy Wells
2nd – Lance Beament
3rd – Dylan Forbes
4th – Scott Miller
FT – Will Clarke

Results not available yet.

Great racing today everyone who took part. It was a really sunny day and temperatures were warm. Apart from the due westerly at around 35km per hour conditions were almost springlike!
We had 14 riders today with a couple of old school cash money tries on the day which are greatly appreciated and new rider Matt Bonham who joined the bunch ride out from town.
I must say that from the lead car it was hard to tell what was happening behind today. At the front of the race Leigh Pridmore and Michael Dalton were clearly on a good day and rode hard on the front like they were in a breakaway!
By the left turn into Hagley Station Lane for the 2nd time there was little sign of the chasing bunches. Behind, James McKee, David Murray and Matt Bonham were making little inroads into the lead of Pridmore and Dalton before being caught by the group Tim Burford, Peter Dadson, Garry Cooper and Brenden Paul Simpson-Kitt
It was credit to the handicapping that the race only started coming together in the final run to the line. The duo of Ricky Allen and Kaine Arkley made their move with a strong tailwind along Black Hills Road with Arkley going clear and Cooper following with Allen close behind and McKee in close pursuit. Opening up a 50 metre gap as he round the final corner onto Whitemore road it was Arkley, the strongest of the chasing pack who looked most likely to have secured a place on the podium.
60 seconds up the road and unaware of the fight for the minor places behind it was Pridmore who was accelerating clear. This time, from Mick Dalton who had emptied the tank to make sure of the 1-2. Next to cross the line was Arkley, a stomping Cooper, in real form right now and Allen who fought hard to hold onto 5th.
The scratch bunch of Dave Bingley, Shane Revell and Robert Wrigley had 20 mins 30 seconds to make up today and while it looked like a tall order they were right there and hot on the heels of the main bunch coming into the final corner. Had the race been another kilometre they would’ve been in the fight for 3rd today so chapeau on a great ride.
With just enough left in the legs to putting his bunch mates to the sword, Revell in his 2nd race back eased away in the last 200m to take the fastest time.
Congratulations everyone on a great days racing 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Results:
🥇 Leigh Pridmore
🥈 Mick Dalton
🥉 Kaine Arkley
💨 Shane Revell

Thank you to everyone for a great race today. The weather was perfect for racing. It really doesn’t get any better!
Firstly though, thank you those involved in organising this weeks race. Everything was super smooth from the set up by Kaine Arkley to the swapping of some race day roles with Patrick Coe and Simon Donovan. Thanks too to Garry Cooper for doing the tail car and Ricky Allen for joining our handicapping trio.
We had 15 riders today with 3 late scratching so not bad at all. First away was Diane Ottaway who we welcomed back after some time off the bike (well at least from racing!) followed a minute later by Leigh Pridmore and then Brenden Paul Simpson-Kitt on 3:30. The D grade bunch started on 12:30, C grade on 19:00 and B grade on 21:00.
The first action of the day came after around 10 km when Brendon and Leigh came together and almost immediately after, joined Di at the front of the race. After a couple of turns the accord was broken and Brenden began to roll off the front before making short work of the Porters Bridge Road climbs and extending the gap to the duo behind. Completing the first lap, Brenden had extended his lead over Di and Leigh to around three and a half minutes.
Back down the road the B grade bunch of new rider Michael Truscott, James Nevin and Stef Shearer had made short work of catching up and joining forces with a strong C grade bunch which include the two workhorses Pat Coe and S cott Miller, Ricky Allen, another new rider Danny Wilson and Simon Donovan. This was a strong group and work well ove the course of the second lap to reel in the D grade bunch of Peter Dadson, Craig Burrows, Chris Colley and Julian Clayton and front marker Di and Leigh at the start of the longest climb on Porters Bridge Road. With the race all together with the exception of Brendon the pace was on and his advantage of around 8 minutes over the bunch at 35km was starting to tumble.
Exiting the corner from Porters Bridge Road onto River Road, new rider Michael Truscott eased away from the group and decided to go off solo in pursuit of the leader of the race. With only a few kilometres left riders were being dropped. With a kilometre to go Brenden could see Michael closing in the distance but he was running out of road and it was clear that it wasn’t going to be for the backmarkers today.
Riding a very hard last kilometre Brenden held them off to cross the line some 20 seconds ahead of Michael followed by the bunch who made a race of it for 3rd on the downhill false flat to the finish. Sprinting strongly out of the pack and finishing 100m ahead of the rest, Stef Shearer rounded out the podium.
🥇 Brenden Simpson-Kitt
🥈 and fastest time Michael Truscott
🥉 Stef Shearer

Today’s NVCC graded handicap at Selbourne saw 18 riders taking advantage of the milder & dryer than forecast conditions, on the Selbourne to Black Lane circuit course over 45km.
A couple of new & returning riders was a welcome boost to numbers.
There was a generous spread of 28 minutes across the handicaps, which was always going to be a challenging ask for the lone scratchman Clark to close down.
The two front markers of E grade were working well, but were eventually reeled in & passed by the numerically advantaged D bunch, before they reached the turn into Black Lane on the penultimate lap.
The chase behind was working well until some loose gravel on the turn into Emu Plains Rd on the last lap saw two of the B grade bunch kiss the tarmac unexpectedly. Happily they were both ok to continue, although the incident put paid to any chances of the win for them.
C grade worked hard & slowly chipped away at the 12 minute gap to D, but eventually ran out of road & missed the win by 3 minutes.
And so it was left to D grade to battle it out amongst themselves for the podium spots.
The final 800m of this course is a brutal climb with gradients well into double digits, made worse today by a steady headwind to the line.
A very tough finish necessitates a tough winner, so who else but club legend Burf for the win, closely followed by Melissa Snadden & new rider Craig Burrows rounding out the podium.
Thanks to all the volunteers today for their help in putting on the race.

Starting in Carrick for 2 laps of the Carrick-Westwood loop, 16 riders were met by cool temperatures and a light easterly breeze. Riding solo in E grade was Leigh Pridmore followed by groups of 3-4 riders including two C grade bunches and a solo Scratch rider in Will Clarke, who set off on 23 minutes.
With a few solo riders it wasn’t long before the race started coming together. Before the end of the first lap, Melissa Snadden passed Leigh, and soon after turning onto Westwood Road the B grade trio of David Bingley, Gene Finn and Martin Simpson caught and passed the 1st C grade bunch of Robbo, Matt Breakspear and Rob Wrigley.
Soon after the Rosevale intersection Will Clarke passed the B/C1 bunch without any reaction coming from the riders. First to try to bridge across was Martin Simpson who attacked out of the bunch and made it within 10 meters before he was joined by Matt Breakspear. Unable to get into Will’s wheel and with a gap to the bunch behind the only option was to invest and work together to stay away.
In front, the C2 bunch of Pat Coe, Ricky Allen and Stef Shearer was closing in on Melissa Snadden before they were also caught and passed with about 9km to go by Will Clark with seemingly effortless pace.
Behind them Matt and Marty were coming across the gap at speed. With 1 km to go Martin led onto the Carrick bridge, accelerating past Pat and kicking as he passed Ricky and Stef. With Stef Shearer in hot pursuit Martin powered up the hill past the pub and that was the way it would remain to the line.
Will Clarke 🥇
Marty Simpson 🥈
Stef Shearer 🥉
Thank you to everyone who has raced in the first half of the season. Thank you to the guys and girls who set up the courses each week, the volunteers, the new riders and our dedicated racers who come along week in and week out. It is also great to see some riders coming along every 3rd or 4th race to offer their support. It really mixing things up to have different riders coming out to race and we are grateful that you chose to race with us!
We still want to see more new and old faces so please think about coming out for a race in the 2nd half of the year.

After a pretty much freezing start the sun came out and we had a great morning of racing at Hagley. The luck of the Irish was in the air and the sun shone brightly on one rider who has never been afraid to grasp the nettle, often from distance and particularly uphill!
We had 16 riders at the start today on a course that has something to suit everyone. While Selbourne Road isn’t step enough to trouble the stronger riders it’s just enough to give those that can climb that little bit extra to be able to stay with the fast men and women and that was how it proved to be today.
The frontmarker duo of Brenden Paul Simpson-Kitt and Leigh Pridmore split early with Brenden riding away solo and putting in a lap and a half off the front by himself before the chasers had him in their sights.
Behind Brenden, the second C grade bunch of Ricky Allen, Patrick Coe, Emily Walker and
Scott Miller was making short work of catching the D grade bunch of Michael Dalton, Tim Burford, Melissa Snadden, Garry Cooper and Julian Clayton. With the relentless efffort of Pat and Scott taking its toll, the D grade riders began going out the back, followed by Emily who was distanced on the undulating back half of the course.
Tim Burford was as able to stay on and was soon joined by Brenden as they started the final lap. Meanwhile, the 1st C grade bunch of Kaine Arkley, Stef Shearer and Alex Demeyer and B grade riders Andrew Daly and Phil Jarvie were still some way back and looked to be out of the running unless they could make up significant ground in the final 15km.
On the last time up Selbourne road, our resident selfless diesel workhorses of Scott Miller and Pat Coe put in a couple of massive turns, the first putting Brenden into difficulty and the second ending Tim’s hopes of staying on into Black Lane. The 3 riders out in front were not holding anything back as the raced into Emu Plain Road and turned onto Beveridges Lane for the last time. It was clear now that they were racing for the podium but still there was no sign of any let up.
Wanting to make sure of their chance’s Scott and Pat continues to invest, allowing Ricky limited time on the front. Soon after the Selbourne Road turn off Ricky made his move from 3rd wheel, attacking Pat and Scotty and taking the win with a move that left them with little chance of closing it down.
Congratulations to Ricky Allen on a fantastic ride and a well deserved win!! 🏆 🍫💐
Results:
Ricky Allen 🥇
Scott Miller 🥈
Pat Coe 🥉
Special mention this week to birthday girl Emily Walker who finished strongly, sprinting out of Brenden Simpson’s wheel and opening up a significant gap to cross the line in 4th place just ahead of Tim Burford, who continues to ride strongly week after week!

Today’s NVCC race was the tough Bishopsbourne, Bishopsbourne, Green Rises circuit. There were good numbers in D and E grade. This group combined after the tough climbs to Blackwood Creek to form a fast moving group at the front. Tim Burford did plenty of work, especially on the climbs. Behind were C grade, split into 2 groups and the lonely president😭the sole A/B grader further a minute behind these. The faster C grade group of four became 3 with Matt breakspear doing plenty of the work. These 3 merged with the front C grade bunch near Cressy. This group was reduced to four – Matt,Kaine Arkley new rider Alex Demeyer and Ricky Allen as we approached Armstrong’s Lane. Meanwhile the front group were going well and not yet in sight. Eventually, the front was sighted along the latter part of Armstrong’s lane with the chasing C grade bunch attacking hard on the last rise. Kaine, Alex and Matt gapped the rest to finish in that order with the ever impressive Tim Burford followed by Melissa Sladden and Ricky. Well done to all on the tough course. Must have looked a bit difficult for our A and B grade riders this week?

Fog and 4 degrees greeted the 17 starters at today’s NVCC 46km handicap from Longford to Bracknell (2 circuits) and return. E grade made great progress with their 3.5 minute start over the chasers and disappeared into the mist to not be seen for the next 34ks. D Grade set off in pursuit, sensing an opportunity as they had a generous gap to the C/B groups chasing.
All was going well for this well oiled machine with only the Bracknell Hill climb presenting some challenging elevation to overcome.
At the back, a strong C grade of 7 riders pressed hard but this caused great attrition with the group being whittled down to 3 riders approaching the 15 km run home. According to Keith, they lost Chris, then Emily, and when Scott Miller attacked the Bracknell climb things started to unravel. 7ks out Keith jumped onto the B graders – for about 2 seconds – but the Bingley and Revell team jumped down the road leaving the remainder to find their way home as best they can.
Back at the front – Tim, Daddo, Melissa, and Mickey caught sight of the front markers about a km up the road from Pitts Lane – and the chase was on over the final 12ks.
Approaching Wilmores Lane, D grade sensed they had been spotted by the fronties and some urgency was applied with all riders pulling hard turns.
Finally, just inside 2km to go, D grade made the catch on very tired legs and the drive to the line began.
Daddo then made an early move, foolishly, as he had misjudged the distance to to line, and was soon overrun. At this point Brenden launched his powerful sprint in the bunch of 7 and despite some determined chasing he held on for a fine win over Tony, with Melissa grabbing the final podium to fly the flag for D grade. I believe daylight was next before the arrival of the elite riders some distance back.
Results:
1st – Brenden Simpson Kitt
2nd – Tony Savage
3rd – Melissa Snadden
Thank you to all helpers today and competing riders.

What a day. 17 riders took to what is traditionally a tough out and back course from Bishopsbourne to the Blackwood creek turn around and back again over undulating terrain and into a stiff breeze.
Today did not disappoint!! A moderate cross tail wind on the way out ensured that it was a quick ride to the turnaround. In the B grade bunch we had made up around 10 minutes on the front markers at the turn. Soon after the turnaround we passed a fast moving Will Clarke competing in his first race with the club today and closing in on half way. Starting at 22:30 down he was making short work of the course!
After the ascent of Blackwood Creek the race started coming together. At Richardsons cutting the C grade bunch was joined by B grade, followed shortly after by yours truly who had been some 200m off the back. Will Clarke passed on the straight to the Liffey Road intersection but no one was able to make the jump to go with him.
Before the end of Blackwood Creek Rd, the junction was made with D grade and soon after the right hand turn onto Liffey Rd, an attack from Dylan Forbes put a couple of riders into difficulty. With little cooperation in bunch Dave Bingley and Martin Simpson kept things moving along. Scott Miller and Phil Jarvie were riding well and contributed to the pacemaking into the final 10km as the front duo of Brenden Simpson-Kitt and Michael Applby were passed and finally at around the 41km mark, Peter Dadson and Melissa Snadden were overtaken and the bunch was racing for the minor places.
Scott Miller led out strongly to the final corner before an attack from Ricky Allen around the final uphill corner onto the finish straight. Dylan was right on Ricky’s wheel with Dave locked on behind and Martin in tow. As Ricky faded, Dylan sat up and Dave launched at 250 metres to go, with only Martin able to respond. Dave was simply too strong and in a Mads Pederson like display he left the others in his wake to take 2nd.
Congratulations to Will Clarke on his first win with the club 🏁🍫
Todays results:
Will Clarke 🥇
Dave Bingley 🥈
Martin Simpson 🥉
A big thank you to Dean Mason who started everyone off today, before jumping in the tail car, to Pat Coe as race director and lead car, and Tony Savage for his great work at the turn and for giving everyone splits to the front of the race – I heard a lot of people comment that they loved that!
It was great to see a rider of Will’s calibre joint us for the race today. We have had a few A-grade riders riding with us so far this season and it would be a really positive thing if we can continue to grow those numbers and attract more riders. That said we want to attract more riders across all grades and all abilities.
Lastly, thank you to those who rode out today. We had 5 hardy souls roll out from Prospect. Let’s see if we can add a few more for the ride out to our next race at Longford.

The Quamby Classic once again was a resounding success. With near perfect weather the groups set off and quickly went to work. It didn’t take long before groups were joining forces and working together to try and fend off the scratch bunch. The hills were a bit too much for some, while others seems to enjoy them (a bit too much perhaps). There were a few stellar performances today from a few of the mid markers who jumped on the A train as it rolled past. Once the scratch bunch could see the lead car it was Paul Mckenzie who started the fireworks with a couple of attacks. It didn’t take long before the rest of his group were looking at each other hoping someone else would reel him in. Nic Kerkham had a crack at bridging the gap solo to him, but after a valiant effort he sat up and watched Paul ride away.
A big thank you to Howell Property Group for their sponsorship today, without your sponsorship these races would not be possible. Also, thanks to all our wonderful volunteers today as well as the Vets committee for their efforts organising the race.
Race Results:
1st – Paul Mckenzie
2nd – Nic Kerkham
3rd – Christopher James Brinkman
4th – Mike Walsh
5th – Martin Simpson
6th – Lance Beament
7th – Ricky Allen

A not too shabby field of 19 riders signed on for today’s 49km handicap at Bracknell for 2 laps of the Whitemore – Cluan loop finishing with a nasty drag up to the line on the outskirts of Bracknell.
Buoyed by glorious sunshine, light winds and a record of 3 entries on the day, 6 bunches lined up at the start separated by 24 minutes from A to F grades. It proved to be a day for the front-markers with some stong rides ensuring few riders were caught by those chasing behind.
In F grade, Leigh Pridmore and Brenden Simpson-Kitt got the race started, followed by a 4-rider E grade bunch, featuring returning rider Tim Reese and pursued by a D-grade with 3 riders and C-Grade with 2 riders. A bumper field of 9 B-Grade riders were split across two bunches, separated by 2 and a half minutes, rounding out the field.
It was a tough morning of chasing with little success for many, with the exception of Peter Dadson and Julian Clayton whose D-Grade bunch made a final push on the 2nd lap that saw Pat Oldham distanced before catching the E-Grade bunch on Cluan Road with just 4km to go.
Perhaps the most decisive move of the day came just as the catch was made with Leo Lorezen tacking his chance from E-Grade to launch a stinging attack that went without reply before roding off in pursuit of the 2 F-Grade riders who were still up the road.
Meanwhile at the front of the race, Leigh and Brenden were racing for win, with a very strong Brenden Simpson-Kitt taking victory from Leigh Pridmore by a comfortable margin. Leo rode strongly to take 3rd place, holding off the pursuers, who were unable to close the gap established during his initial attack.
B Grade rode exceptionally strongly, staying away from A Grade and catching the C Grade bunch of Keith Gibson and Lance Beaumont in the final kilometres. Special mention must go out to Lance who was able to go with the B Grade bunch and sprint for the minor places behind Daz Turner who took out the sprint for the best of the rest.
It was incredibly positive to see so many B-Grade riders coming along to race. Hopefully, more racers will lead to more word of mouth and we can continue to see the number of riders growing across all grades in the coming weeks.
Don’t forget there’s open racing next Saturday with Northern Districts CC Longford to Campbell Town at 1pm and Criterium racing next Sunday with Cradle Coast CC at Symmons Plains staring at 10am. It would be great to see members support these races is you can and encourage other riders to come and have a race with us on a Sunday 👌🏼
Results
🥇Brendon Simpson-Kitt
🥈Leigh Pridmore
🥉Leo Lorenzen
Thank you to the volunteers today, particularly to Garry Cooper who kindly filled in for Paul Butler who was unable to make it today, Melissa Snadden for her videos and photos and to our marshalls who were kept busy with farm traffic this morning.
Great racing everyone

The NVCC today conducted the Fingal 50 feature race, generously sponsored by Kevin Morgan of Morgan Timbers.
This race has been in recess since the 2020 edition so it was great to have it return and create some more history with this event.
Strong and gusty winds provided challenging conditions for the hardy cyclists, including some brutal headwinds over the final kms.
Front markers Di and Leaanne made great progress from go in the tail wind and made the turn still holding a solid lead.
Some hasty handicap revision resulting from 3 late scratchings saw Tim Burford move back to help Melissa and Pete (Thanks Tim). This group pressed on in determined chase but found it difficult to make significant headway on Michaels Appleby and Dalton plus Leigh Pridmore.
The Mickey Dalton group eventually reeled in the front girls on the return journey and set off for the finish with great determination.
Meanwhile 2nd scratch, with Colin and Martin pulling hard turns were joined by scratchman Nick Kerkham who had ride away from Dave Bingley and Shane Revell. After rolling turns, Nick set off to join Alex Robinson’s group and in turn, caught Lance Beaumont’s group after the turn.
Meanwhile, Colin and Martin were left to chase, picking their way through the field, with Andy sticking with them until the finish.
Nick pressed on, doing about 90% of the chase bunch work with occasional help from Matt and Phil.
Lance decided to have a ‘spell’ in the gravel but managed to keep it together thankfully.
Up at the front of the race, Leigh and Michael Dalton were suffering the severe headwind in their press to the line, dropping Michael Appleby in the process.
Their ride was impressively strong in the testing conditions and they went on to sprint for the win with Michael Dalton overcoming Leigh for a well deserved victory.
An exceptional ride through the field saw Nick Kerkham gain 3rd and fastest time honours.
Next followed Alex Robinson, Lance Beament, and Matt Breakspear who swamped Mike Appleby in the final metres pushing him into 7th.
Very close behind came Melissa Snadden gaining 1st lady honours and 8th place in a very impressive and strong ride.
Results:
1st – Michael Dalton
2nd – Leigh Pridmore
3rd – Nick Kerkham ( and fastest time)
4th – Alex Robinson
5th – Lance Beament
6th – Matt Breakspear
7th – Mike Appleby
1st Lady – Melissa Snadden (and 8th overall)
Thank you to all volunteers today for their efforts with race management.
Commissaire Nick was very pleased, given the Police scrutiny, with the safe and responsible riding by all our cyclists.
Finally, a big thank you to Kevin Morgan at Morgan Timbers for his generous sponsorship of the Fingal 50 feature race – the site of his 1st bike race victory in 1965.
Well done everyone

A bumper field of 28 riders greeted the starter for today’s 59km graded handicap at Bishopsbourne on the 3 lap Armstrong’s Lane course.
Would’ve been 30 but for 2 late scratchings.
The weather was overcast, not cold, but it was to be the NW wind which was the major weather factor today.
5 bunches set off separated by 18 minute front to back.
E grade battled bravely off the front for well over 2 laps before they were eventually caught on Liffey Rd by a combined B/C/D bunch, which had formed earlier on the 2nd lap.
As the new race leaders flew along Greenrises Rd on the final lap, with the strong tailwind pushing them along very nicely, A grade suddenly appeared in the rear view mirror, closing very fast.
The catch was finally made as they turned onto Armstrong’s Lane.
A select few were able to hang on as the A graders ascended the hill, pushing into the cross-headwind for the last time.
By the top of the hill, a small bunch of 3 or 4 had broken away off the front & gained around 100m advantage over the chasers.
However, with only around 5km to go, they were not allowed to add any more of a gap & they were quickly reabsorbed into the bunch.
A group of around 10 made the final turn onto Bishopsbourne Rd together in the charge for the line.
Paul McKenzie was in no mood to contest a sprint finish and took off with several hundred metres to go. No one was willing or able to chase him down & he was able to sit up & roll across the line several seconds ahead of Nic Kerkham in 2nd & Andrew Daly in 3rd.
A great effort to not only hang on, but challenge the leaders on the last hill, was enough for Alex Robinson to win C grade.
Julian Clayton outsprinted the remainder of D to win that grade, and David Murray continued his excellent form to comfortably win E grade & earn himself a promotion next time out.
Race presentations were followed by the club AGM (Report to follow)
Results
1st Paul McKenzie
2nd Nic Kerkham
3rd Andrew Daly
Grades
A Paul McKenzie
B Andrew Daly
C Alex Robinson
D Julian Clayton
E David Murray
Thanks to Jim Leigh & Noreen for volunteering today.

The promised glorious weather brought out good numbers once again to race the 3 laps of the Selbourne Rd/Black Lane/Beveridge Lane circuit at Hagley today.
Conditions overhead were perfect, with clear blue skies, a few wispy clouds high over the western tiers & no real breeze to speak of.
20 riders took to the start line, in 6 groups from A-F, separated by 20 minutes on the 45km course.
Riders made good progress initially, with only one, who’d maybe not been paying attention at the briefing, missing the turn onto Black Lane.
This is where the race took an interesting turn.
Debris on the road from the recently trimmed hawthorn hedges decimated the field, wiping out all of E & A grades, and two thirds of the field succumbing to punctures over the course of the race.
Those lucky 7 who survived crossed the finish line in dribs & drabs.
Brenden Simpson-Kitt put in an exceptional ride to win by several minutes from the front mark.
A 2-up sprint from the remnants of C grade, saw Chris Colley comfortably out gun Scott Miller in the shootout for the minor places.
Shane Revell just pipped last weekks winner Colin Locke in another sprint for the final podium spot, and fastest time.
Results
1st Brenden Simpson-Kitt (F)
2nd Chris Colley (C)
3rd Scott Miller(C)
4th & F/T Shane Revell
Thanks as always to everyone who turned out to help on the day, particularly Belinda Arkley & Leigh Pridmore.
Thanks also to all those riders who helped out with driving round & picking up those who needed it.

The NVCC race today was on the Woolmers Lane, Panshanger, and Mt Joy out and back course. It was very encouraging to have a strong field of 27 riders spread over 6 grades set off from the Longford racecourse in fine conditions.
Lead out by Di and Leaanne, the girls made the Powranna junction before capture by E graders Tim, Julian, Annie, and Michael. These determined E graders continued to make great progress and would not be seen until the business end of the race. A well organised C grade bunch reeled in Melissa, Catherine, and Pete at the 24k mark with Scott, Keith, Emily, and Patrick pulling some very hard turns.
Meanwhile, A grade strengthened by the inclusion of Paul McKenzie, had a huge task to catch the strong B graders and make the front of the race.
B grade had other ideas, with great teamwork from Colin, Andrew, Matt, Martin, Phil, and Kaine they pressed on with great determination to try and win this race.
At the turn the 3 D graders dug deep to hang onto C grade over the climbs and into the wind with Catherine, then Melissa, and finally Pete being dropped – just as E grade were caught at the 45k mark. Within seconds the B train swept through this combined group, upping the tempo in the push to the finish over the final 10 ks. Kudos to Julian and Michael from E grade who stayed with this group.
Approaching the finish line it was Colin Locke who won a close sprint over Andrew Daly with Matt Breakspear and Martin Simpson closely behind,
Almost there, but not quite, came A grade with Paul McKenzie winning a great sprint for fastest time by the smallest of margins from Chris Brinkman.
Results:
1st – Colin Locke
2nd – Andrew Daly
3rd – Matt Breakspear
4th – Martin Simpson
Fastest Time – Paul McKenzie
Thank you to race Director Michael Appleby and his crew of helpers, Nick, Noreen, Duane, and Michael Dalton on trailer duty. Thanks also to David Murray who started us today and stepped up for tail car duty.

A good field of riders set off in 5 groups from Whitemore in today’s NVCC 48km handicap over 2 laps of this circuit. The E graders were 5 strong and bolstered by the return of Tim Burford and Tony Savage they made great progress with their 4 minute advantage to not be seen for almost 40km. Meanwhile the second scratch group of Patrick Coe and crew worked well to catch Ricky and Jim and in turn catch the 3 D graders at the end of the first lap. This group turned on the heat in the chase of E grade making it very hard work for the pursuing scratch riders. As the B/C/D group hurtled into the wind on the Meander Valley Highway Tim and his E grade crew came into view and the pace went up a notch to make the catch just before the Hagley roundabout.
The run up Station Lane soon became difficult for some riders to hold on and Tim was finally dropped after a great return to racing effort. Tony and Brenden held on for some ks before Tony was lost before the final run up the Black Hills Road. The surge up this climb saw Pete, then Brenden leave the group that would make the final turn for the run to the finish.
The sprint to the line was hotly contested by several riders with the powerful Duane Pitt taking the win by a small margin to Ricky Allen, with Keith Gibson taking 3rd place.
Congratulations to today’s winners on a fine performance and the good effort of all riders.
Special thanks to today’s helpers Dee, Andy, Matt, and to Ricky for the trailer duty.
Results:
1st – Duane Pitt
2nd – Ricky Allen
3rd – Keith Gibson

The 2024 racing calendar got underway today at Evandale on the out & back Nile Rd course.
Good numbers meant that we were able to run the race as a GMS for the first time in many months.
The stiff Southerly breeze made for a slow outbound slog to the turn, with the afterburners engaged for the return to the finish line outside the gun club.
Great to have 2 new riders joining us for the first time.
E grade were first off followed by a combined C/D bunch & then A/B off last.
The headwind made for hard going on the exposed road between Evandale & Nile.
Potential disaster was narrowly averted as riders were leaving the Nile CBD as a herd of deer dashed across the road directly in front of the C/D &A/B bunches. Fortunately no collisions.
Once the turn was completed the racing really began in earnest, but almost all riders managed to stay with their grade mates to make for several exciting sprint finishes.
Nic Kerkham took out a fairly comfortable win in A, with similar outcomes for Shane Revell in B, & Matt Breakspear in C.
D grade was very hotly contested, with barely a tyre width between Garry Cooper & Peter Dadson.
In E David Murray, powered to a very strong win to continue his progress after his return to racing.
Results
A Nic Kerkham
B Shane Revell
C Matt Breakspear
D Garry Cooper
E David Murray
Thanks to all the volunteers & duty riders today.