NUNEATON-based rider Dave Mead starred for Team MI Racing after winning two time trial events racing for the team founded by cycling legend Mick Ives.
Mead triumphed in the Coventry Cycling Club Diana Cook Memorial 10-mile time trial in a time of 20 minutes 25 seconds.
The event, held in memory of former Coventry Cycling Club member Diana Cook, took place for the 40th time.
Mead topped the podium with teammates Simon Law and David Garrett fourth and 18th respectively.
And Mead also won Droitwich Cycling Club’s 10-mile time trial event in 20 minutes 31 seconds as the Nuneaton rider secured his first wins of the 2026 season.
He finished more than a minute ahead of the second-placed rider with teammate Joe Murray 13th while Mark Wise and Law finished second in the two-up 10-mile road bike time trial race.
MI Racing’s mountain bike riders began their summer campaigns in the Friday Night Summer Series races which run from May to August.
A team of 10 MI Racing riders, including team owner Garry Townsend, raced in round one of the series which took place near Kettering.
Cannock-based Nick Popham took third place in the grand veteran race while Law finished sixth in the super grand veteran event racing on a mountain bike for the first time in many years.
Popham won the grand veteran race in round two while teammate Andrew Owen won the same category race in round three of the series which is now in its 35th year.
Elsewhere, MI Racing rider Nick Whitley competed in the prestigious Gralloch gravel event in Scotland which acts as one of two UCI World Championships qualifying events.
Whitley finished in 10th place in the men’s 55 to 59-year-old age category to qualify for the World Championships which take place in Australia later this year.
Teammate Popham, racing in his first-ever gravel race, finish in 101st place.
MI Racing’s Andrew Owen travelled to Europe to race in the Traka gravel event held near Girona, Spain.
Owen completed the 325km course in 13 hours and 52 minutes to finish seventh in the men’s 50 to 54-year-old category race.
