Rye & District Wheelers - May 9
IT WAS entirely appropriate that the cycling Mayor of Rye, Paul Osborne, should make the presentation of the Rye & District Wheelers VTTA National team championship medals as one of his very last acts as Mayor.
Barry Goodsell, Jim Hollands and Granville Bantick made up the winning team in last year's Veteran Time Trial Association (for riders over 40) National Championship 100-mile time trial and became the first riders in the club's 130 history to win at national level.
The presentation was made to the team in the Mayor's Parlour, at Rye Town Hall, at the end of May because it had been impossible for them to get to Rugby in February for the VTTA prize presentation.
Barry and Jim, along with Mark Nash, had also been successful in becoming the Kent Cycling Association's best all rounder team champions in 2007.
This event is a scratch competition for all ages over distances of 25 miles, 50 miles, 100 miles and 12 hours.
This was the first time the Wheelers have won the BAR, a competition that was first run in 1932.
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09 May 2008 1:00 PM
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