Brighton Mitre Cycling Club

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..

Another fine evening over at Wineham for another instalment of the BMCC 10TT on Tuesday night.

The wind played a greater role than the week before but the 15 riders that turned out still put in some great times.  In the Open on Road bikes Issac Wright (TMC) rode a 22:25 with over very own Mark Day coming 2^nd with 23:14.  Andy Larkin (SRVC) was 3^rd with a 24:02.  Female Open was won by Sally Smyes (Brighton Phoenix) with 29:19 and the Female TT was won by Erica Martin (Eastbourne Rovers)  29:38.  Kevin Nwelyn  rode 24:05 on a TT bike with Ben Ib 2^nd (24:32) and BMCC’s Stephen Lamprell 3^rd (26:06).  

Thanks again to Tristan, James, Wendy and Anthony for assisting and making the event possible.

Full results are available here – https://resultsheet.app/rsd/1724137924610×174780771799400450

We were luck to have Lee come out and photograph the event as well.  His photos can be found here https://hellovelo.picfair.com/albums/277149-brighton-mitre-wineham-tt

Another great evening even if I say so myself, so thank you everyone for turning out.

Next week our attention turns up hill with the first of two Hill Climbs on Mill Hill.  Tuesday 27^th Aug and Tuesday 3^rd Sept, first riders off at 7pm.  More info here….https://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/club-events/view/12483

On a glorious but breezy evening a field of 15 turned out for the BMCC 10TT on the Wineham Loop this evening.  Riders from BMCC,  Sussex Revolution, Neighbourhood and TMC were present.

BMCC’s Cris Coxon riding his TT rig turned in the fastest time of the evening of 21.22.  The fastest road bike rider was Kevin Newlyn of Sussex Revolution with 24.15.  Kerry McGawley (BMCC) was the fastest female on a TT bike with a time of 26.01.  Amy Davis (BMCC) was the fastest female on a road bike with 27.44