KVRC Open 10 & Charity 25

Records tumbled in our time trials weekend on the Levens courses.

Dave Allonby, riding for Preston's Springfield Financial, and Adam Hartley (PH-MAS) both averaged over 30mph in Saturday evening's Midsummer 10, sharing the spot with 19mins 31secs, while Adam broke Richard Handley's Noth Lancs Time Trials Association 2008 junior record by ten seconds.
Its was Dave's turn to be the record-breaker in Sunday morning's Edwin Howson Memorial 20 with his winning time of 20mins 39secs beating Gethin Butler's 2006 mark by 16 seconds; though not troubling Stephen Irwin's outright course best of 49min 30secs set last autumn.

Tim Bennett was Kent Valley's fastest riding in the 10, clocking 23:02 ahead of Glenn Howart on 23:42 while Campbell West led Kent Valley's charge in the 25 with 58:18 ahead of Phil Shaw on 58:42 and Andrew Barlow 59:32.

Proceeds from the weekend will help fund a cancer charity & North West Air Abulance. Well done organisers Tim Bennett & Peter Knott and all who helped stage two cracking KVRC open events.

Richard B