Two in a Roe for James
JAMES ROE made it two wins in a row by completing a convincing victory around the Pleinmont course in the second race of the Ian Brown's and Arrowsmith Marlowe MTB Championship.
JAMES ROE made it two wins in a row by completing a convincing victory around the Pleinmont course in the second race of the Ian Brown's and Arrowsmith Marlowe MTB Championship.
YOUNG Jack Sunderland mastered the mud to boost his Island Games prospects with victory in the experts' section of the Velo Club's penultimate race of their MTB cross-country season.
It has been another sporting year to savour in which the Sarnians have ruled the roost over the Caesareans and further abroad, too. Rob Batiste reflects on the people and events which made 2005 a very special one
THERE was a thrilling finish to the experts race in the penultimate round of the 2005 MTB series at Fauxquets Valley.
ROB SMART'S decision to give up the chance of a Muratti football cap for the chance to test himself against the best in international cycling looks like paying off.
WITH one last Island Games MTB team spot still to be filled, there was an extra dimension on the result of the first event of the Velo Club's summer series.
CYCLIST Tobyn Horton is taking a leap into the unknown.
MORE than 2,500 miles, 21 guest houses, 14 ferries and seven different venues.
THE experts were dangled a carrot by starting a minute behind the advanced riders in the latest round of the winter MTB series at Les Norgiots.
JOHN MAPLEY highlighted just why he has won a place in the national Talent Team squad with a fine win in the sixth round of the Southern Cross-Country MTB series at Surrey Hill.
GRAHAM LE MAITRE produced a personal best ride to win the Guernsey Velo Club's 10-mile time trial held on the Cobo course.
ROB SMART retained the winter series title with a commanding final-round display.
IF THE results of the mountain bike tour of Guernsey are anything to go by, the future of the sport looks good.
THE island's top riders showed they are in peak form ahead of the NatWest Island Games with some great times in difficult conditions for a 25-mile time trial.
AHEAD of this week's confirmation of Island Games cycling squads the Guernsey Velo Club staged its first road race on the Games course, a mountain bike race at Le Guet and a 10-mile time trial.