VETERAN rider Michael Allen won the pursuit and scratch races for Coventry-based Team Enable at the British Masters Cycle Racing National Track Championships.
Allen, riding for Team Enable-MI Racing-Townsend Vehicle Hire, won both races in the 75 to 79 age category held at the Geraint Thomas National Velodrome of Wales in Newport.
He is one of Team Enable’s most successful riders and produced another superb performance to add to his long list of race victories.
Elsewhere, Team Enable’s mountain bike riders enjoyed a successful finale to the Friday Night Summer Series after 15 rounds of action.
Lindsay Newman won the ladies veteran category and Ryan Henry won the men’s veteran category while Nick Popham won the grand veteran age category and Jefferson Tear-Verweij finished fourth in the under-23 age category.
Team Enable riders Pete Busby and team sponsor Garry Townsend also competed in the series.
The cyclo-cross season returned in style as Team Enable’s West Midlands League riders dominated the top places in a number of age categories.
The first round took place in Ullenhall and defending champion Nick Whitley rode away from the rest of the field to claim a convincing victory in the 50 to 59 age category.
He finished 38 seconds ahead of the second placed rider.
In the same category, Kenilworth-based Darren Atkins finished third with Nick Popham fifth, Christian Morgan 19th and Andy Jackson 46th.
And in the veteran 60-plus age category, Mark Garrett finished in 10th place while in the ladies race, Lynsey Whitley finished seventh in the 40 to 49 age category
In the combined junior, senior and veteran 40 to 49 age category race, Tear-Verweij finished 14th overall and an impressive second in the junior category.
Lastly, Colin Miller placed fourth in the veteran 40 to 49 age category race while Warwick-based Tom Bradley finished 19th in the senior race.
Further North, sisters Holly and Layla Bradbrook raced in round one of the North West Cyclo-cross League in Rawtenstall, Lancashire.
Current Welsh Cross Country mountain bike champion Layla rode to a superb first place finish in the under-23 category while older sister Holly placed ninth.
With the time trial season drawing to a close, Nuneaton-based rider David Mead continued his fine run of race victories.
He clocked a rapid time of 42 minutes and 23 seconds racing in the Coalville Wheelers 19.8 mile TT to take his 11th straight open competition win of the season.
Recent signing Michael Wills finished 10th in 51 mins 17 secs while Allen crossed the line in a time of 1 hour 36 secs on a road bike to finish 16th.
A number of Team Enable riders competed in the RTTC National 10-mile Championships in Cambridgeshire.
The event attracted almost 200 riders including many of the top riders from around the United Kingdom.
Mead finished in a time of 19 mins 21 secs to place 22nd overall and second in the veteran 45 to 49 age category.
Riding in the 55 to 59 age category, Nuneaton-based Simon Law finished fifth with Coventry-based Andy Jackson 16th.
Leamington-based Mark Wise finished fifth in the veteran 60 to 64 age category with Wills fourth in the veteran 65 to 69 age category.
And Team Enable’s top female rider, Diana Egerton-Warburton, raced to a 31st place finish overall and second in the 45 to 49 age category.
Elsewhere, the team’s latest signing Luke Allen, based in Worcester, rode in the Leamington Cycling and Athletics Club 10-mile open event on the popular K11/10T course between Rugby and Coventry.
Allen, riding in his first open event for the team, won the road bike category in a time of 21 mins 59 secs. At the same event Bradley finished 18th with Wise 19th and Greg Ashley 27th.
Out on the road, young rider Oliver Searle won his second road race of the season in the East Midlands Road Race League event at Six Hills.
Searle proved unstoppable after an opening lap attack and beat the rest of the field by almost one minute.
Lastly, Rugby-based rider Rob O’Connor won the final race in the 2024 Stallard Series held at Darley Moor circuit. O’Connor claimed victory following a photo finish sprint to the line.
