This weekend saw the five riders of the U16 team at the North West Youth Tour...
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Hartley hammers it home in Horwich
Velocity WD-40 were represented by a single youth A rider (Adam Hartley) in the youth races at Horwich as part of the carnival celebrations. The races were the first events of the carnival races that combine cycle racing with running, speed walking, uni-cycling and various other events on the closed roads of Horwich town centre. The course [...]
Matt Gibson blazes the trail in Lazonby
Back in team colours after racing on the continent for Team GB, Matt Gibson put in a stunning performance in the National Junior Road Race Championships in Lazonby, just north of Penrith in Cumbria this weekend. Matt was in an early break with eventual winner, and fellow Team GB rider Chris Lawless, eventually finishing in [...]
The racing merry-go-round continues
This weekend saw the team racing far and wide with road racing in Belgium and Germany, and track racing at the omnium events in Manchester and Birmingham. Matt Gibson was riding for GB in the Nations’ Cup in Germany at the Trofeo Karlesberg, with Chris Lawless taking the green jersey and the boys finishing second [...]
Velocity WD-40 top team at NWYT for a second year
This weekend saw the five riders of the U16 team at the North West Youth Tour – a 5-stage race based around Preston, Lancaster and Blackpool. Over 80 riders from across the country competed in close competitive racing at the highest levels. The first stage on Day 1 was a 1 mile time trial, completed [...]
Beating the traffic in Belgium
And what an incident packed weekend it was… Crash, Bang, Wallop! The weekend started on quiet Friday evening rounding up two of the Velocity WD-40 Youth A riders, Matt Walls and Adam Hartley, and friends from the other side of the border in Yorkshire, Reece Wood and Jake Beech. Off we go on the way to [...]
Velocity WD-40 Youth Team top the table in IOM
This Bank Holiday weekend saw both the Junior and U16 teams travel to the Isle of Man for the International Youth and Junior Tours. These three day stage races are the most challenging in the UK with the best riders from here and overseas in attendance, and we had a full complement of our strongest [...]
Sprinting in Southport – North West Championships
This last weekend saw both the Junior and Under 16 Youth A teams in action. For the North West based U16 riders, it was the Divisional Championships in Southport with Alex, Matt, Fabian and Adam competing against the best in the Region around 45 laps of a tight and twisty 1km circuit . Our riders [...]
The boys get the Belgian effect at Hog Hill GP
This weekend saw both the U16 and Junior team travel to London. Not for the London Marathon but to Redbridge Cycle Centre – affectionally known as Hog Hill – overlooking the city of London and the Olympic Park. We were also joined by the promotional team from The WD-40 Company which added a certain sparkle [...]
Two tours, two teams, one weekend
It’s been a very busy couple of weeks with our teams racing up and down the breadth of the country. Weekend before last the Junior team was racing in The Tour of the Mendips – Andy, Christian and Will – with Matt Gibson racing for Team GB in the Junior Paris-Roubaix. Matt acquitted himself well [...]
Big performances at Ster van Zuid Limburg
The Easter holiday weekend saw the Junior team travel to Belgium to one Europe’s premier junior events – the star tour of south Limburg. The race is in its 34th edition and attracts the best junior teams from around the world. This year it comprised of 3 stages of over 230km with 32 teams and 187 [...]
