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Hove Park Crits are back again for 2025 with multiple races on Friday evening!
Junior Races, 4th Cat, 3rd Cat, Womens and E123! The best way to spend a Friday evening.
Race 1 – 27th June 2025
Race 2 – 11th July 2025
Race 3 – 25th July 2025
Details and race entry Hove Park Crits page.
The Mighty Mitre have been bossing it in the early stages of the TT season with some excellent rides and podiums galore.
Cris Coxon, Adrian Ford and John Franklin kicked off the season with a Team win for the Mitre at the East Sussex CA March 10 on 9th March. Cris won the event with Adrian 3rd and John 4th.
Rory Knapp flew the flag for the Mitre at the RTTC National Road Bike Championship on 13th April, coming 46th overall.
April 18th saw Mitre continuing their winning ways at the Crawley Wheelers 42 with Cris atop the podium and Karla Boddy taking first place in the Female Road bike category.
April 21st saw the Mitre hosting the 27.3 TT. Jack Smith carried the BMCC flag that morning, coming 5th overall.
Jump forward to the Steyning weekender on the 10th and 11th May and yet again you’ll see Cris atop the podium in the SCA 10 on the 10th. Cosmo Derangi was 1st in the road bike category, Rory Knapp 2nd in the road bike category and Tracey Williams 2nd in the Female TT bike category. At the time of writing the official results for the SCA 25 on Sunday 11th May haven’t been posted but Strava tells me that, surprise surprise, Cris won the event, setting a new course PB. Also on the start sheet were Cosmo, Donald Parker, Tracey and as ever Robin Johnson. I’ll update this when results are published, but it’s fair to say it was a cracking weekend on racing.
Robin hasn’t been off the bike it seems, competing in 7 events already this season.
Casting eyes forward we have a calendar full of events. On the bank holiday weekend the Mitre are hosting 2 TT’s. Monday 26th May sees the 10 and the Hilly 10 taking place over at Steyning. Entries close in 3 days so best scoot over to https://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/events/30785-brighton-mitre-cc-10 or https://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/events/30777-brighton-mitre-cc-hilly-10 to secure your place.
Loads more events in the pipeline. Please visit https://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/event-finder and use the search box to find events base on location and / or date.
The 2nd Hill Climb of the year took place on Mill Hill on 29th April. It was a warm and dry evening but the typical headwind up the final drag was present as usual to make the racing that bit more plesent. There were 9 riders in the field.
Please follow this link for the results or have a butchers below..
On a beautiful evening riders from The Mitre, Horsham Cycling and Preston Park Youth met to take on Mill Hill.
Here are the results of tonight’s Hill Climb, with a Mitre top three of Cosmo Derangi blasting up the hill in a blistering 7min 27.5 sec to take the win, Jack Smith (8min 12.9sec) second and Giles Ruffer (8min 47.8sec) third. Youth rider Jack Palton PPYCC (9min 03.8sec) was 4th and Gemma Lewis (9min 55sec) of SRVC won the Female Cat.
Whilst we were up on Mill Hill we noticed smoke and flames coming from just north of Steyning. This turned out to be Mitre Marek Shafer cranking his 56T chainring and lighting the afterburners to the win the Brighton Excelsior 5TT in 10min 12sec. His wingman on the evening was John Tindle who rode to third with 10min 53sec. Both were on road bikes and managed to ride the TT so quickly they still had time to ride to the start of Mill Hill before we’d finished. Sadly both politely declined the offer of a late entry for the Hill Climb.
We return to Mill Hill on Tuesday 29th at 7pm for the second edition. Details here..
Attack, Attack, Attack that hill!! Saturday saw Steyning Bostal host the Sussex Cycling Association Hill climb (that is part of the 2024 Strada TMC South Downs Hill Climb Series).
In the Open The Mitre (top 3 combined time of 14min 09.77 sec) were pipped into 2nd place by the specialist Hill Climbing Team of Elevate RT (13min 22.07 sec). Well done George Bentley (4min 19.68sec), Robb Cunningham (4min 50.44sec) and Jack Smith (4min 59.65sec).
Testament to the strength and depth of riders that turned up, Elevate couldn’t even get on the Open podium thanks to a blistering 3min 57.45sec ride by Matthew Ferguson of Redhill CC which was less than 3 seconds from taking the course record from Lukas Nerurkar. Matthew was backed up by his teammate Ben Elliot (4min 06.97) with Richard Cartland (Hunt Bike Wheels) in 3rd with 4min 19.51 sec.
In the female category Lucy Deschamps of Onxy RT rode to the win with 5min 09.89 sec.
Finley Andrews (4T+Cyclopark) won the youth with a time of 5min 04.3sec. Chapeau to all..
