This was the first Ilton of the season and there were many keen riders present from teams such as big Maggys and Pendragon-Le Col.

Report By Richard Wilkinson

First race of the season, lot of apprehension about my form and worry since this race has never been fruitful for me in the past, pan flat, very fast, funnily enough, not my sort of race, need a few rolls and lumps for me to be happy. However, the race ended up being a bit of a non starter, the handicap allows the juniors to start 3.30mins ahead of the race, unfortunately, there are about 40 juniors many of which are cracking GB talent team riders who are fast! The juniors came round to lap the elites just as the 3 min 30 sec handicap allowed the elites to start, now the juniors were joined to the elite group it meant that they had a lap and that was that! However, we did have some PBK representation in the junior field in the form of PBK junior rider Mike Gregg. He was one of those who gained a lap and got a superb finish of 12th.

Report by Tom Collier

With the Severn Bridge road race full I was keen to get my first race of the season underway, note to self get entries in earlier!  The Merthyr CC were promoting a ‘Ten’ on the Saturday before and this local TT was ideal to get me into racing following our awesome team camp in Mallorca.

The start sheet came through and I was scratch man, but with former Multi National Champion and ex Commonwealth Games rider Ceri Pritchard amongst the field it was always going to be a tough race, even more so having fought a snotty cold all week!

Race report by Rob Willcocks

This was the 38th running of the ever popular Severn Bridge road race. With the cancellation of the Perf’s Pedal a few weeks previous, this was the first real road race of the season and there were a lot of quality riders eager to take the early win. The start sheet backed this up with 36 Elites and a line up that wouldn’t look out of place at Premier Calendar level.

The weather was almost perfect for racing, with bright sunshine, clear blue skies and a slight side wind along the finishing straight. The riders assembled at the start ready to prove their worth in the classic event.