Hyperthermia
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Our boys Team ProBikeKit.com showed with three riders today, myself, John Nye and Chris Lobb. The turnout was 14 riders, - Gary Chambers looking strong, good to see Andy Parker riding from Mid Devon and a couple of Revo Racing riders - Pete Howath and Adam Bright.

The weather was overcast with a cool breeze. This was my first ride at Portreath, so I was pretty careful to note the course details on the warm-up lap - it's an old airfield circuit and it's pretty rubbly! But if you can avoid the potholes it's got a couple of tight bends after the runway section and then a nice windy hill section to the finish.

As we lined up on the start line I noticed I had a rear flat with scant seconds till the start! Stupidly I didn't bring a spare wheel-set and so as everyone did an extra warm-up lap I ran to the car-park and was lucky enough to find Ian Fensome from the Exeter Wheelers willing to lend me his Trek to ride! My bikes Campy 11 - so the chances of getting a wheel were ... zero! No time to make adjustments - just get on and ride! Thanks Ian you're a life saver!

All eyes were on Gary from the go really - no surprises when on the 3rd lap he made his move straight after the hill on the runway section. Chris Lobb got straight in the action and went up the road with him. Gary and Chris rode a steady fast pace keeping at least 45 seconds up on the bunch for the whole race. The rest of the bunch stuck together with no real chase getting organised. Then down to the last two laps, I wound up on the front up the hill on the penultimate lap. The pace dropped right off as the finishing sprint was contemplated by all. I sat on the front and took a nice line into the final bend - looked back to watch it all kick off and sprinted my way to finish just behind Adam Bright netting 4th place. Gary took the win out-sprinting Lobber with Pete Howath - 5th and John Nye - 6th. A 2-4-6 for PBK - good days outing! I'm liking this Cornish racing.

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ROYAL NAVY & ROYAL MARINES CYCLING ASSOCIATION

2 Up 16 Mile Team Time Trial

 Wednesday 26 May 2010 commencing at 1900

Kindly sponsored by Carol Wilcox of

Juice plus

Over £500+ in prize money for numerous categories including:

Composite teams, combined age cats of 90+ 100+ & under 40, mixed, all ladies and parent/sibling

Event HQ – Gymnasium, HMS RALEIGH, Torpoint, Cornwall

Fantastic facilities and excellent freshly made cakes on completion with proceeds being donated to Exeter & District Kidney Patient Society

CTT Entry Form and cheque made payable to the ‘RNRMCA’ for £14.00 (per a team) to be forwarded to:

 Sean Childs, 25 Brancker Road, Milehouse, Plymouth, Devon, PL2 3DW by Mon 17 May 10

Cyfac Absolu review
Frame 56cm
Full Carbon, alloy dropouts, replaceable dérailleur hanger.

The Absolu is a real work of art - hand built in France to rider specification it's a really special machine. As I don't have much experience of  custom frame geometry, I took a stock 56cm rather than a custom spec version, as its geometry matched my old Cannondale six13 precisely. Since I was so happy with the Dale last year, I decided to try and get the same fit for my Cyfac.