S. L. Kingston Wheelers RC 2/3 Race

Ignore the blatant London Dynamo slant, Stuart Spies pretty much hits all the right notes in terms of sentiment with a brilliantly witty report...

Ok so a bit of a race report from Dunsfold...because we actually have something to report!

Turning up to the start of the 2,3 at Dunsfold was a pretty intimidating affair, I think knowing the legs were iffy and the Prebble, Hurd factor were on the start sheet was reason enough but I just felt there were way too many serious looking candidates rolling around. Five hundred inGear guys were layering on the secret potions and DHC seemed to have a full compliment of shouldn't-you-be-a-first-cat cats stretching and eyeballing everyone that walked in.

The race set off at what I thought was a pretty upbeat nuetralised section, I was in the big ring flat out! Anyway after getting black flagged and told off by the Com for white line crossing we got down to the business of racing....oh wait first we got the crashing out the way, three riders down and flat spots for everyone else...Lord this is lap 1!?

Lap 2, Simmonds decided this was all too sketchy for a tester and headed off up the road with a geriatric inGear rider on his wheel. I was yelling at Cam for various reasons and clearly had a bit too much testosterone going through the system when I jumped on the wheel of a DHC rider who shot off up the road, Cam followed along with a dulwich chap and before I knew it we had a pretty serious gap...oh shit!

Pain and suffering and Stuart swearing at Cam, swearing at DHC and basically everything and everyone that we went passed, DHC was huffing and puffing and we soon realised that maybe this little fella was not meant to BE the break merely set things up for Mr Hurd...you may know him from such films as 'I won the Gimber' After a lifetime we caught Rich and the little inGear chap and coach Simmonds set about trying to whip the recruits into shape.

Clearly Dulwich, inGear and DHC didn't need to do too much but it would have been nice if they did something! In fairness Dulwich was actually working but I was still yelling at DHC, Dulwich was yelling at me, Rich was the soothing calm and Cam was being shouted at by everyone. That said Cam was listening and not decimating himself on every turn, nothing like having your very own breakaway coach on board to maintain order!

The gap grew to 3minutes, thanks in no small part to the boys in blue controlling the bunch and Rob Hurds new buddy for life Dave Streule, who was all over the Hurds moves like a bad rash! Nice one guys!

With three to go I was missing turns, mis-firing and couldn't even swear at DHC anymore?? Rich and Cam put the boot in and shat us out in no mans land dragging the poor Dulwich rider along for the only to crucify him somewhere around 1 to go I think. I found out what three minutes feels like as I waited and waited for the bunch. When they finally arrived I needed a push from Toks just to find a wheel to cling to...pure misery! I must be honest the brain shut off at this point, I could make out Dave, Torkel and Jason up front and somewhere in the middle Matt B and Tony Smedleys new bike!

The bunch was starting to get organised and it was looking worrying for Rich and Cam, a few guys were jumping off the front and the gap was down to about a minute on the final lap. We entered the final sweeps and that bastard bitch of a hill for the finish and as I crawled to the line I decided if we hadn't won the race I'd kill someone...thankfully.......wait for it........Dynamo 1,2!!

Yeah baby, Cam, Rich we salute you! A very well deserved win for Cam and a stupidly big effort from Rich for second, testers, you gotta love em!