Saturday morning saw the group meet in Keighley
under a rainy and grey sky, with a poor turnout from the fair weather riders. I rode over from Ilkley with Billy from
Dirtwheels questioning whether it would be a good idea or not – but wasn’t too
cold once on the move.
We rode into Skipton with the usual anticipation of what might lay ahead. I found
myself at the front riding through Skipton. Joel from Chevin rode at a strong pace
up the hill, so I decided
to sit on his wheel see if the legs were going to coope
rate.
As we rode over the by
pass roundabout I looked around to see there was 4 of us in the clear, a lad in
black kit was hammering it and it was a little keen for my liking so sat in a bit, after getting shouted at I went to the
front and I slowed it up a little allowing others to get back on the group.
After a bit of swapping around, riders doing turns to keep the
pace up we cornered slowly on the slippery tarmac past the
duck pond, with Lloyd going some strong turns. The group
settled down as it does over the few bumps and along to the sprint section. I sat on
Lloyd and Richard as it seemed like a good plan. I noticed Richard looking around a bit
saying “who is this bugger sat on”. I kept an eye right to spot any attackers, and just as i
relaxed Mick Day came through with a real turn of
speed, luckily someone shouted – i was in the right gear so jumped after him, no
one followed and i put my head down and managed t
o get past Mick before the sign. Lloyd was 3rd.

Thanks Johnny Ratcliffe for the write up
1st Jonny Ratcliffe2nd Mick Day
3rd Lloyd K