The Press Room may have been empty and the number of spectators limited to two men, a dog and a lost rambler but Danny Boyle must be ruing the day he did not include the quintessentially English Bromptoneers in the Opening Ceremony in East London last week. "Sir Paul who?" was all that could be heard echoing around the Southill environs.
In the competition for people who do not build model railways or catalogue their "screws and bolt collections" in to size and length order, Jason Stuart rode to an imperious first place with a time of 23.26.
Despite a course PB for the season the Nomads' Simon Doyle was pipped to third place in his ongoing duel with Beds Road CC's Graham Laming. Laming getting the edge in the 10 series again by five seconds. Clive Collins claims another improvement on the course for 2012 and Jon Traynor came home ahead of the out of sorts Wilson Junior. A temporary dip in form for the Biggleswade lad ahead of
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| Wilson, Witchell and assorted vowels and consonants. |
Psychic Nigel Wilson correctly predicted the 1-2-3 for the Wiggo Gold Run. He will be provding the Euromillions numbers and also the answer to the meaning of life later in the week.
Thanks to Frank Turner for Timekeeping and also Pushing Off. There's no end to this young lad's talents.
Results
| Jason Stuart | 23:26 CCA | |
| Graham Laming | 24:13 BRCC | |
| Simon Doyle | 24:18 | |
| Justin Lane | 25.12 CCA | |
| Peter Gell | 25:28 BRCC | |
| Clive Collins | 28.17 | |
| Jon Traynor | 28.23 | |
| Ben Wilson (J) | 28.24 | |
| Nigel Wilson | 28.31 | |
| Nick Hickman | 31:00 ( |
BRCC = Beds Road Cycle Club
CCA = CC Ashwell
