Club road racing results for Saturday 9th July were as follows:
A and B grade combined: 1st Dan Alcock 2nd Alistair Lane 3rd Matt Vagg
C grade: 1st Mel Roach 2nd Friedy Meidel 3rd Tenielle Stubbs
D grade: 1st Emma Richardson 2nd Ron Whitehead 3rd Stewart Ware
Juniors: 1st Ky Sullivan 2nd James Sullivan

Once again the rain went away leaving us with a beautiful Saturday afternoon to race the extended course. We had 35 riders in total. The extended course ran from the usual starting point at the Sid Burke rest area, north to Archville Station Road round-about, south along Pine Creek Way, past the normal short course turning point at Mailmans Track Road round-about, down to the Raleigh roundabout after crossing the Bellinger River, then retuning to the starting point. 

A grade completed two laps of the extended course, followed by three laps of the normal short course. The results were: 1st Reece Edwards (1:32:54) 2nd Chris Andrews 3rd Liam Warburton.

B grade completed  two laps of the extended course, followed by two laps of the normal short course. The results were: 1st Craig Scott (1:23:25) 2nd Matt Hoy 3rd Greg Warburton.

C grade completed  one lap of the extended course, followed by two laps of the normal short course. The results were: 1st Mel Roach (59:45) 2nd Andrew Scrivener 3rd Hugo Mayson.

D grade completed three laps of the normal short course. The results were: 1st Harry Rourke (49:30) 2nd Emma Richardson 3rd Rob Fletcher.

Juniors completed two laps of the normal short course. The results were: 1st Ky Sullivan (47:35) 2nd Zoe McDonald.

Riders were greeted by excellent Winter weather for racing at Bonville last Saturday afternoon. It was good to see some new senior and junior faces at sign on again this week. Mel Roach, doing an excellent job as club road race director, set the A/B group a 5 lap scratch race on the Bonville course. A number of the A graders were away racing in Gunnedah, causing the amalgamation of A and B grade for the afternoon's event. The new dynamic of the combined A and B group, allowed the club's young and talented riders to make an impression. The Warburton brothers rode very well to finish just in front of an always fast Nathan Hardaker...

1st Numa Warburton
2nd Liam Warburton
3rd Nathan Hardaker

A large goup signed up for C grade which stayed together for the majority of the 4 lap event. At the finish, Steve Sloan used his fast cadence to get a handy gap to an always strong Mel Roach, followed closely by the eternally tactical Alan Miller. The youngest rider in the group was 13 yo Hugo Mayson, who finished a close 5th on restricted gearing. Well done Hugo.

1st Steve Sloan
2nd Mel Roach
3rd Alan Miller

D grade had a smaller group battling it out over 3 laps. All riders put in a big effort with Harry Rourke and Ron Whitehead getting dropped on the second lap, and who then pushed hard to once again catch the leaders, which demonstrated their determination. Emma Richardson made a last lap break on the climb to Mailmans, but the young and strong Tenielle Stubbs bridged the gap after chasing for a kilometre, to sprint away in the last 100 metres. Harry also finished strongly to take second with Emma third.

1st Tenielle Stubbs
2nd Harry Rourke
3rd Emma Richardson

The juniors once again showed their enthusiasm with little legs completing 2 laps of the hilly course. It is always inspiring to see the juniors enjoying themselves and achieving such great results.

Thanks to all the riders, spectators and supporters.

Thanks to all the volunteers who did traffic signs, rider registration, commissaire and first aid duties.

Next club race is on Saturday 02/07/2011 at 1:15pm at the Bonville course.

Macca's MNC Criterium Series final pointscore...

The Coffs Road Carnival for 2010 was a great success with perfect weather, fierce competition, a fantastic course and no spills.

The Road Race results are are attached bellow
Criterium results available soon.

All riders rode well and are to be congratulated on their results.

Participating riders...

U17M riders, Nathan Hardaker, Numa and Liam Warburton and Alex Beedie.

U15M rider Hugo Mayson.

U11F Alyssa Sayward.

A big congratulations goes to Alyssa bringing home the Bronze medal on the Road. Go the Girls!

A few issues also arose on the weekend and I would like everyone to take the time to familiarise themself with the technical regulations.

The link below takes you to the Cycling NSW website... http://www.nsw.cycling.org.au/site/cycling/nsw/downloads/Files/technical/regulations/NSWCF_Tech_Regs.pdfalso

http://www.nsw.cycling.org.au/default.asp?MenuID=Technical/20241/29318/