Volunteer call up - CCH Track Race

It's our annual track event at Herne Hill Velodrome this Saturday 2nd July, we hope to see plenty CCH senior and youth track riders racing and anyone who has yet to volunteer this year for a club event would do well to get themselves down to help - we need it!
Jobs that need covering include - sign-on, judging, car park helpers, whip, lapboard, gate marshall, results recorder, gear checking, photography. Any help gratefully received. Can you let Martin know you are coming to help email: houseofelliots@aol.com
Sign on starts at 1pm racing at 2pm. Staff needed on site at 12.30pm.
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/145048/CC-Hackney-HHV-Open-Season

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Alex & Tao on fire

Alex Peters and Tao Geoghegan Hart set alight the British National Road Race Championships. Wow our boys made the race - I saw it live with my eys,. The way they rode was incredible a top class double act doing the bizzo and taking it to the best riders in Britain. Tao (Mr T) is now the 2016 National Under 23 British Champion. It was a race within a race; Team Tinkov's Adam Blythe won the Elite title. A great event to watch, the real deal.

Alex has been renamed Durracell Bunny Peters by Cycle Sport mag and awarded him man of the match for his efforts out front all day.

2016 London Youth Games news

 Just one point in it in the end, that's an ouch! We came 2nd overall and did not retain our cup despite having two outright individual winners in Frank Moore and Anoushka Minale. I must say very well done to these two athletes and every rider who gave their very best. Also to all of the supporting staff and parents, especially those that got ready properly, (tapered, focused and rested) in the important week leading up to this, our primary target, team event.

Congratulations going to Southwark who were announced as this year's road cycling winners, well done to their team and manager Bill Wright.

Next time Hackney will try to win again and get it just right in 2017 OK TEAM!?

Additional reporting, classified results and pictures to follow.

London Youth Games 2016 - good luck to both teams

Today Cycling Club Hackney say 'bon courage' to Hackney's cycling squads and the teams taking part in the 2016 Balfour Beatty London Youth Games cycling finals this weekend; that's the road event on Sunday and the BMX races on Sunday, both held at Lee Valley Velopark.

Hackney BMX & Road teams are the 2015 reigning champions who are looking to hold onto their titles and so confirm Hackney Borough's reputation as a genuine hotbed for cycling.

Finsbury Park Festival of Cycling – 12th June 2016

Anoushka and Luka setting a flying lap time on the tandem - in wet conditions.

Finsbury Park Festival of Cycling – 12^th June 2016

Cycling Club Hackney Go-Ride Grass Track Racing

In spite of some truly awful weather in the morning there was a good turnout for the grass track racing at the Finsbury Park Festival of Cycling on Sunday. Well over 50 riders raced, many for the first time.

The space available at Finsbury Park provided a surprisingly technical course for a grass track - tight turns, sloping straights and a bumpy back straight. This combined with a course that started wet from the heavy rain and was dried through the day by a brisk north-westerly wind, all made the flying lap and group races a challenging prospect. This wasn’t a day for slick tyres or track bikes - as one rider found to his cost crashing half way through his flying lap. Riders on knobbly-tyred cyclo-cross or mountain bikes were at a distinct advantage.

The main focus was on a flying lap competition, which was keenly contested, especially in the under 8 and under 12 age groups.

Some real grit was shown by the under 8s with riders as young as 4 and 5 doing their flying laps in the wind and rain, but the older riders in the group, Nico Coté (M) and Ella Shaw (F), took the Go Ride honours.

In the under 12 flying lap, Cycling Club Hackney riders Robin Steer (M) and Anoushka Minale (F) set the fastest times with Eva Shard (F) and Louis Davis (M) winning the Go-Ride category. Anoushka also managed to set the slowest time in this category riding a ski bike borrowed from another festival stall. A borrowed tandem also allowed for a brief tandem flying lap competition dominated by Anoushka.

Rudy Warren in the under 16s set the second fastest lap of the day on a slick-tyred road bike which was only beaten at the end of the day by Ben Shaw, who took advantage of a dried-out track and knobbly tyres.

Start to handicap scratch race – with a strong wind blowing across the track

As well as the flying laps, group races were run including scratch and handicap sprints. The flying lap times were used to set up a series of handicap sprints allowing riders in different age categories to race against one another. The faster riders were started further back and with the right handicap all riders should cross the line closely together making for exciting finishes to races.

So what looked like it might be a washout turned into a good day’s racing enjoyed by (nearly) all the riders. If you enjoyed it and want more have a look at the Cycling Club Hackney website for details of our Saturday morning child and youth training sessions run from the Club HQ on the Nightingale Estate just off Hackney Downs. If you go to school in Hackney there’s also the Young Hackney Primary School Cycling League to get involved in through your school with the final event coming up in July.

We are very grateful for the prizes provided by:

The newly opened Yard Sale Pizza in Finsbury Park - https://www.facebook.com/yardsalepizza/ and

Blighty Coffee a local coffee and food house on Blackstock Road https://www.facebook.com/BlightyCoffee/

Report - Ben Shaw.

Robbie not looking sure about things behind Luka

Scratch race

Award Ceremony! Riders receiving their medals

Award Ceremony! Riders receiving their medals

Award Ceremony! Riders receiving their medals

Winners and their medals

RESULTS

Under 8s Flying Lap
Name		AGE	M/F	TIME
Nico	Coté	7	M	00:45.0
Ella	Shaw	7	F	00:46.1
Tatiana	Tucker	7	F	00:52.3
Archie	Whyte	7	M	00:53.9
Matthias	Schinkel	6	M	00:54.0
Zoe	Whyte	5	F	01:00.9
Laurie	Gregory	7	M	01:04.8
Leon	TC Edkins	5	M	01:05.4
Elliot	Pender	5	M	01:06.3
Poppy	Gregory	7	F	01:08.4
Zoe	Polit-Jones	7	F	01:15.7
Evan	Davies	4	M	01:16.7
Sofia	Hunt	6	F	01:17.3
Charlotte	Borgeaud	6	F	02:47.8

Under 12s Flying Lap
Name		AGE	M/F	TIME
Robin	Steer (CCH)	10	M	00:30.4
Anoushka	Minale (CCH)	11	F	00:30.8
Eva	Chard	11	F	00:31.3
Elliot	Marsden (CCH)	10	M	00:32.7
Louis	Davis	11	M	00:33.5
Delilah	Stephens	11	F	00:34.6
Tom	Mead	9	M	00:36.2
Amy	Shaw	10	F	00:37.5
Ashley	Hunt	8	M	00:38.2
Archie	Linden	10	M	00:38.9
Louie	Burn	8	M	00:40.0
Max	De Souza-Brazil	9	M	00:42.9
Thomas	Schinkel	9	M	00:43.4
Nikola	Polit-Jones	10	F	00:44.6
Milla	Syslo	8	F	00:48.3
Olivia	Burn	10	F	00:50.8
Gwen	Winn	9	F	00:52.1
Evan	Campillo	10	M	00:53.4
Sabina	Coté	10	F	00:54.0
Mickie	Borgeaud	8	M	01:01.5
Grace	Pender	8	F	01:08.3
Anoushka	Minale (ski-bike)	11	F	01:53.4

Under 16s Flying Lap
Name		AGE	M/F	TIME
Rudy	Warren	12	M	00:27.8
Matthew	Beck	13	M	00:30.1
Luca	Minale	13	M	00:32.2
Nasiriyah	Hakim-Anderson	13	F	00:36.4
Ryan	Burke	14	M	01:06.2
Amanuel	Ressum	14	M	No Time Taken

Anoushka and Robin doing their flying lap on that tandem.

Flying Lap Tandem	Time
Anoushka and Robin	34.27
Anoushka and Robbie De Monchaux-Irons	40.4
Anoushka and Luca	41.89
Prosper and Louis Watts	45.23

Over 16s Flying Lap
Name		AGE	M/F	TIME
Ben	Shaw	16+	M	00:26.3
Nick	Mead	16+	M	00:30.3
Zeki	Ayken	16+	M	00:30.9
Wesley	James	16+	M	00:33.6
Stephen	De Souza	16+	M	00:35.0
Jon	Winn	16+	M	00:35.6
Kate	?	?	F	00:40.2
Paul	Pender	16+	M	00:41.1
Peter	Maas	16+	M	DNF