Well I am afraid it is. As the evenings draw in and thoughts of end of season rides on the last few weekends of warmth this year a good field of riders contested the final TT of the year.

The evening was a good one for racing and Chris Batch took full advantage of his year of steady improvement to take the club scratch points, just behind the winning ride of Simon Hazeldine (Norwood Paragon). Rupert Burbidge however was not to be denied the annual overall win.

Alan Miles, persevering with his fixie found an end of season peak sufficient to win this week's handicap competition and challenge for the year long overall prize. He equalled Rick Gregory on points but Rick had 2 overall wins to Alan's 1 so by a hair's breadth the trophy will go to Rick.

Lots of pix here
http://adewebb.smugmug.com/Cycling/Last-RCC-TT-2011/18819403_79QPgM

The results at the end of the year were as follows:

Scratch Competition
1st Rupert Burbidge 80
2nd Charl Jordaan 77
3rd Jon Masters 68
4th Chris Batch 60
5th Neil Candler 58
6th Dave Wilsher 49

Handicap Competition

1st Rick Gregory 57
2nd Alan Miles 57
3rd Dave Powis 52
4th Dominic Hawkins 48
5th Steve Bryant 47
6th Stuart Metcalfe 44.5

Many congratulations to all 12 riders in what has been a very competitive season

Special thanks to Jon Eg for week after week setting up the course and timekeeping for us. Thanks this week too to Richard Bailey for starting the riders

Next round will be Weds 2nd May 2012 at 7.30. Make a note....