Mark Richards of Velo Club Baracchi had a very good ride in the Tour of Cambridge UCI World Cycling Tour 16-mile time trial on closed roads near Peterborough. The event had professional timing to an accuracy of tenths of a second and a professional-style electronically controlled starting ramp. Conditions were not ideal with strong gusting […]
Chris Womack of Velo Club Baracchi had a great ride in the VTTA national championship 10-mile time trial at Hull, with a time of 22:53, which placed him 101st on scratch, out of the 140 who rode. At 68, his age-related standard time is 28:42, so his ride earned him a “plus” of 5:22, the […]
Mark Richards of Velo Club Baracchi had a fine ride in the CC Breckland 10-mile time trial on the A11 from Attleborough to Snetterton and back last Wednesday evening, recording 21:56. George Kerridge of VCB achieved 22:53. Last year, Richards’ best ride was 21:29 and Kerridge’s was 22:41, so both of them are looking good […]
There was no way to separate the times of Velo Club Baracchi rider Liam Gentry and Team Pedal Revolution rider Matt Smith, who rode to joint first place in the Godric CC 10-mile club time trial last week in 22:44. The odds seem to be against dead heats but they happen surprisingly often. Initially it […]
Velo Club Baracchi cyclists were out in force to support the Beccles Cycle for Life ride on Sunday. Members taking part in the charity fundraiser for the club included Chris, Pat and Mark Womack, Mike Wood, John Cooper, Paul Clarke, Mike Rainton, Keith Wink, Tim Revell, Steve Summons, John Swanbury and Steve Cone riding with […]
Velo Club Baracchi’s open time trial on the A143 Waveney Valley course on May Day was blessed by a mostly sunny morning but there was a wind that increased during the event and made the return leg to Wortwell hard. The top VCB rider was Mark Richards with 23:04 and the other times were George […]
Velo Club Baracchi’s next promotion is an open time trial on the A143 Waveney Valley course on May Day, for which there are 50 solo entries and a tandem. Top-seeded rider is Mark Arnold of CC Desiragear who set a course record on April 19 in a recent 25-mile event that utilised these same roads. […]
Kate Churchill of Velo Club Baracchi is in the process of qualifying for the Paris-Brest-Paris Randonneur, a famous long-distance randonnée, organized by the Audax Club Parisien. She has completed three out of four qualifying rides, the 200km Double Dutch Audax which took place on a cold, windy day in the Fens, a 300km event from […]
Last Tuesday in evening sunshine, Mark Richards, John Swanbury and John Thompson of VC Baracchi rode in the Diss CC club 10 on the “Brockdish Circuit,” which includes the A143 from Billingford to the Needham roundabout but takes in the villages on the old road on the way back. Richards had a good ride, recording […]
Velo Club Baracchi rider Chris Womack overcame strong headwind conditions in the Lea Valley CC open 25-mile time trial on Saturday on the A11 and A14 roads from Newmarket to return with a reasonable time. The modest 68-year-old said, “I could only manage 22mph average on the way out but did to get it up […]
Velo Club Baracchi riders turned out in quite good numbers for Gt Yarmouth CC’s Good Friday open time trial on the A143. The 10-mile event was based at Wortwell Village Hall and starting not far from Redenhall roundabout, to turn at Clays. There were so many riders it was split into two separate events, one […]
Chris Womack of Velo Club Baracchi had a strenuous ride in the East Anglian VTTA 25-mile time trial on Saturday, in very blustery conditions. The course was on two laps of a circuit from Stetchworth roundabout to Dunston Corner and Six Mile Bottom and back. The weather was dry but with a very strong south […]
Mark “Titch” Richards of Velo Club Baracchi combined his cycling and running skills to good effect with a second place in the Sheringham Duathlon. Jim Burgess of Anglia Velo took the win. It was a 3km run through the woodland of Sheringham Country Park, taking the competitors over sealed paths and onto dirt tracks. Towards […]
Chris Womack of Velo Club Baracchi rode the West Suffolk Wheelers & Triathlon Club open 21-mile time trial on an undulating “back roads” course at Risby on Saturday. The event is an annual early season fixture but otherwise twenty-one miles is an irregular distance, so many riders would not have a personal benchmark. On a […]
Mark Richards and Chris Womack of Velo Club Baracchi had good rides in the first open time trial of the season they had entered, Saturday’s CC Breckland 10. Richards was the tiniest fraction under 26mph, timed in at 23:06, while the club’s fastest 68-year-old, Womack, maintained his policy of constant improvement with 25:05, which was […]
The Velo Club Baracchi club run was well supported on Sunday and riders are anxious to train. George Kerridge, Nicki Hawkes, Chris Womack, Mark Richards, Joe McDonald and John Dupen pressed on through Halesworth to Dunwich via Peasenhall and Saxmundham. John Swanbury stopped in Halesworth and met up with Mike Wood, John Cooper and Paul […]
At this stage of the year it is hard to imagine the time trial season is just around the corner, but it is, and there have already been one East Anglian event. Chris Womack of Velo Club Baracchi plans an early start, with entries in already for three open events in March, beginning with the […]
Half a dozen Velo Club Baracchi riders enjoyed a good club run on Sunday, going south through Halesworth, Saxmundham via Peasenhall and returning via Dunwich. Lowestoft has just featured in the itinerary of a very intrepid long distance cyclist, whose exploits are very much more notable. Steven Abraham of North Bucks Road Club, who has […]
Velo Club Baracchi riders had to contend with two punctures on their club run on Sunday and they cut down the ride a little to make up for lost time. Problems began in Flixton when Chris Womack punctured and a comedy of errors followed. Two riders rode on, unaware of the puncture, but stopped further […]
Poor weather for the Velo Club Baracchi 100-km reliability ride on Sunday from Oulton Community Centre cut down the number of riders to just three. It was windy, cold and occasionally wet but the recent icy conditions were thankfully absent. John Thompson set off first and his comments were, “Strictly speaking my solo ride was […]
Velo Club Baracchi members had a good ride on Sunday, organised by club vice-chairman George Kerridge. There were eight riders in the group until a few of them later went their separate ways. They were Titch Richards, Mike Bretton, George Kerridge, Nicki Hawkes, Joe MacDonald, Karl Brady, Kate Churchill and John Swanbury. Getting away from […]