Summer Cyclocross Season Review

Results have now been confirmed for the 2017 Yorkshire Cyclocross Summer Series, Shibden CC have had a very successful season. As a club we have won the Team Prize, 27 riders have amassed 18688 points over the course of the season.

Matt Taylor has won the Junior category and came 2nd in the overall standings (out of 366 competitors).

Way of the Roses...

An Epic way of the roses Social ride was completed over the weekend by six riders. 
Hipperholme to Morcombe then finishing at York on the first day (170 miles).
Then York to Bridlington and back to Hipperholme on the second day (160 miles). 
A great 2 days of riding in perfect (but rather hot) weather was had by all and 330 miles over two days is not bad going

Otley Summer Cyclocross

Queensbury and shelf based Shibden CC had a fantastic day at Otley Cyclocross races today.

First up was the under 8s, Josh Daley took an impressive 1st place for Shibden with team mate Casey Jackson following in behind. The Two Stanton-Spencer brothers had a battle between themselves for places with Rory beating Louis on the line.

Jude Stanton-Spencer and Sam Morris raced in the under 10s and under 14s. Difficult for them with no team mates this week to work with but still top efforts.

YCCA Summer Cyclocross Round 1

Shibden CC got off to a flying start in the first round of the Yorkshire Summer Cyclocross at Newsome High School, Huddersfield on Wednesday night. New Club Rider Matt Taylor taking victory in the main race of the evening, beating all 145 participants and surprising many in the process.

Other stand out results were Andy Peace and Chris Taylor taking 2nd and 3rd in the Vets and Gary Cockroft taking 5th in the V40 Category.

All together 17 Shibden CC adults took part in the race, everyone has their own story (in some cases excuses) for what happened in the race.
Well done everyone, see you all at the next round Wed 10th May – Otley.

Littlemoor Park Cyclocross

Shibden CC hosted round 6 of the Yorkshire Cyclo Cross Association Summer series in Littlemoor Park, Queensbury on Wednesday evening.

A technically challenging course led to some close racing. 95 children started the Under 14 race and 130 riders took part in the Over 14 race. There was in excess of 500 people in the Park to watch the proceedings on a warm, sunny evening.

Shibden CC was represented by 14 children and 13 adults, a great turn out.

PMBA Enduro Round 2 Rundown

Round 2 of the PMBA enduro series took place on Sat 3rd and Sun 4th June at Lee Quarry and Havok Bike Park, Bacup. Saturday was a practice day, there were 6 race sections spread over a 25 Mile loop, so quite a distance to cover! Stage 1 and 6 were long runs down through Lee Quarry, Stages 2 and 3 ran in the Quarries on the Moors. Stages 4 and 5 were on rocky, rooty lines in Havok Bike Park.

On the practice lap lots of riders commented on how technical and difficult Stage 5 was due to the muddy conditions.

Ladies Mountain Bike Group

Mtb ladies ride to the Beacon quite an eventful night!

EBCC / Shibden CC Go Ride Games

Presentation from TdY EBCC / Shibden CC Go Ride Games at the Mill in Queensbury - What a fab day. Well done to everyone who took part.

Yorkshire BSCA Cyclocross

Fantastic day out cyclocross racing at the British School Regional Championships for Shibden CC.

First for Ryden Hindle under nines. Second for Izabel Young, under nines.

The Crabtree brothers scored us another two second places with Ciaren in the under fifteens and Ollie in the overs.

Then third place by Will Thompson who was in the lead in his category for twenty five minutes of a thirty minute race and an amazing effort from all the Shibden juniors. Well done guys!!!

All of this couldn't be done without the amazing coaching from the EBCC.

Strathpuffer 2017

Shibden CC once again took nearly 40 riders up to Inverness for the annual winter 24 hour Mountain Bike race. Cold, but settled weather made for some very fast racing. The icy conditions also meant that good technique (and lots of luck!) were needed to avoid losing time through accidents or mechanicals. This year once again we concentrated on the Quads categories, running 5 Male, 1 Mixed , 2 single speed, and a youth team. (9 teams, 36 riders). We also ran a pair, Craig Woods and Gaz Spencer who had ridden the 400 miles from West Yorkshire over three days before the event!

In all there were 133 Quad teams, 85 pairs, 100 solo riders plus school and social groups competing. 880 individuals had entered! Over the 24 hours 6,583 laps were recorded!

24 hour racing is a tough discipline, then add the fact that you are in the Scottish highlands in January and it gets even more demanding. It's dark for 17 hours, and this year the average temperature over the 24 hours was -3C! It's fair to say that some of the people who'd not done this before had to dig pretty deep!

All the teams have a story for how their 24 hours unfolded, at the end of the race Shibden CC had fared pretty well.

3rd Place Male Quads - 36 Laps

3rd Place Mixed Quads - 32 laps

3 teams placed in the top 10 in male quads

5 teams placed in the top 25 in male quads

8th fastest race lap - (Anthony Spalding)

Lots of very sore legs.......

Here's some of the pictures that we collected over the course of the race.

Event information can be found on the Strathpuffer web site.

Shibden Park CX

Shibden CC have been very busy organising Round 8 of the Yorkshire Cyclocross Association winter series at Shibden Park. The event was held on Sunday 20th November. It was a great days racing, although the course was very muddy the rain held off and it made for a successful event. Thanks to everyone who helped out on the day.

Photos of the event can be seen here.

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Club Sponsors

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Club Kit

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