Stage 4 – the final stage was an excellent hilly 5.5 Km closed road loop...
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Walls takes omnium win on his new Pro-Lite
The start of the youth ominium season saw a trip to Edinburgh for a double event at the Meadowbank velodrome. After a delayed start, it was Matt Walls and Adam Hartley first into action in the U14 category, with Matt showing his early intent by winning the scratch race. It was then on to a [...]
Day 3 – Velocity Race Teams win overall at the Isle of Man
So to the final day of the race and for the juniors another early start heading to the north of the IOM and Ramsey. This was likely to be a tricky stage with all to play for. A number of riders would be keen to atone for their poor, and in many instances uncharacteristic performances, [...]
Day 2 – All uphill for Velocity riders
This was the day for the men – and womnn – to show themselves with tough races all round. With an early start, the juniors were off to Peel with riders rolling out on a neutralised start on the dot of 9 o’clock. The 100 km was 11 laps of a gently undulating course with [...]
Day 1 IOM Youth Tour – Powering down the Prom
After a series of fairly uneventful crossings the team arrived and assembled in Douglas for the start of the Isle of Man International Youth Tour. Not completely accurate in its description as it incorporated the third round of the National Junior Series too. With Joe Evans, Fabio Close and Christian Braybrooke away at the UK [...]
Joe Evans on the podium for Team GB in Holland. What could be sweeter?
This weekend brought a very big race on my calendar, it’s the closest race that youths will get to a spring classic like the Paris-Roubaix. The race, called the Wim Hendriks memorial trophie, took place on the Belgium/Holland border and went from point to point and finishing on 3 laps of a 12km loop. The race was [...]
Matt Walls Under 14 champion of the North West
Back at Southport for the 5th weekend since early March, this time for the North West Regional Championships. Four riders representing the team today, Christian and Alex Braybrooke in the U16′s and Matt Walls, Adam Hartley in the U14 category. U14 , 25 KM. A healthy start line, best of the North West keen to impress [...]
Velocity cut the waffle in Belgium
With the UK race calendar a little thin last weekend Christian and Alex Braybrooke, Fabio Close and Joe Evans together with guest rider Leon Gledhill made the trip to West Flanders, to see if they could build on the success of the Braybrooke brothers from the previous weekend. Saturday’s race was a tough 10 lap [...]
Braybrooke beats them all in Belgium
An action packed weekend for Velocity riders with Joe Evans and Fabio Close away with the Talent Team leaving Adam Hartley to contest the CDNW Youth series on his own in Blackpool on Saturday, with a podium position in each of the two races. On Sunday, Will Thomas and Andy Leigh were looking to ride [...]
