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I'm amazed to find that this thread hasn't had a new post for nineteen days - and at the height of the season!
So here's a slightly unusual post to get things going again. I wouldn't normally write this sort of stuff here, but there are a couple of things which make it an exceptional story for me.
Reading 25, 7th July
This event was won by James Cadman, (Hounslow & District Wheelers) in 53.23. , with David Triska (Team Bottrill) an admittedly close second in 53. 26 and Nic Stagg (Hounslow) third in 54.16.
It is a common and justified complaint that TT's are almost always won by a small coterie of specialists who rarely let anyone else get a look in, well this was a first open event victory for Cadman.
This is especially pleasing for the Hounslow since James is still a relative newcomer to the sport and is some one we have watched go from 'a bit promising' to 'pretty bloody good': we hope our encouragement has at least played a small part in this.
Another good feature is that the Hounslow won the team prize (Cadman, Stagg and Tim Budd, 58.09). I was especially pleased about this because only a couple of weeks previously I had pointed out to the guys that if they could enter events together they would stand a good chance of picking up team prizes. It's worth mentioning that when the Hounslow was in the highest league of TT clubs, we based this success, at least in part, by stressing the value of team prizes. The importance is that a team win gives encouragement to up and coming riders who cannot yet win scratch prizes, as well as being good for the morale of the riders' supporters within the club.
It's worth mentioning that both Tim and Nic post on this forum. There is another of Nic's exploits (on fixed this time) which he has asked me to report here - I shall do this later this evening.