PTW

Tomorrow night sees a return to our regular start time of 19.00hrs for a 10-miler on the R10/22 dual-carriageway.

Meet up at the Neath Canal Car Park in Resolven for signing on from about 18.15hrs to 18.45hrs and an approximate 19.00hrs start.

Pos RIDER CLUB/TEAM TIME POINTS

1 LUKE DIX JIF 21.19
2 CHRIS JONES RBW 21.26
3 DANIEL GOUGH SWANSEA UNI 22.03
4 RHYS WILLIAMS ZAPPIIS 22.15
5 MIKE PORTLOCK ECC 22.20
6 NICKY MORGAN TAP IT OUT 22.26
7 ROD HICKS PTW 22.54 20pts
8 COLIN WALLACE MCC 23.02
9 CHRIS FISHBOURNE ABERCYNON 23.16
10 LLOYD MORGAN AJAX 23.18
11 LEON PESTICCIO ONIT 23.23
12 CHRIS LEE MCC 23.24
13 ROSS MORGAN ACME 23.54
14 JOHN HUGHES RHONDDA TRI 23.57
15 PAUL CANNON PORTH 24.01
16 MATTHEW SMITH PTW 24.29 19pts
17 NADINE CANNON ACME 24.31
18 JEFF REES ACME 24.35
19 BOWEN MASON OVW 24.54
20 MORGAN LEY PTW 25.33 18pts
21 LEE HAMER PTW 25.34 17pts
22 JACK LEE MCC 25.42
23 CHRIS WOOLEY ACME 25.48
24 ROBERT LUCAS PTW 25.52 16pts
25 SIMON DENNY PTW 25.59 15pts
26 SIMON THOMAS PTW 26.00 14pts
27 RICHARD WATTS PTW 26.02 13pts
28 RICHARD HIER ECC 26.07
29 GRAHAM HOWELL PTW 26.22 12pts
30 MICHELLE ROBERTSON ABERCYNON 26.31
31 GARETH HILL ABERCYNON 26.48
32 GAYNOR HUGHES BYNEA 26.50
33 TONY HOWELL PTW 26.51 11pts
34 BRAD DAVIES BYNEA 26.53
35 PHIL NEWTON PTW 27.48 10pts
36 STEPHEN WILLIAMS PTW 28.02 9pts
37 DAVE HENDRY PTW 28.13 8pts
38 GAVIN THOMAS CELTIC TRI 28.38
39 HOLLY LABUNSKY PTW 29.27 7pts
40 JOHN THOMAS PTW 30.07 6pts
41 WENDY LACEY PTW 31.34 5pts
42 SHIRLEY HOWELL PTW 33.09 4pts
43 DAI TRIGGS PTW 34.02 3pts

OK thanks to everyone for helping out on a very busy night and especially Will and Bill. Some of the times are a bit dodgy as we had some riders not filling in their rider number at the sign on, an unusually high number of two's and three's finishing at the same time and an irate lady motorist deciding to stop at the finish and berate us (well dealt with by Pip).

I think it's clear to everyone by now that this club event is now getting out of hand a bit and is effectively becoming a mini open event but organised on the night in a mad scramble. I feel we need to cool demand by raising our prices from £3 to £5 and/or restricting our guest riders perhaps to those who have joined as second claim and accepting no more. The committee will discuss this at the earliest opportunity but your thoughts are welcome.

Well, I think you could justify a rule like that until say June. Demand cools off after that, and it would be a shame to close ourselves off to all newcomers just because of a few mad nights in April.

By the way, what was the lady driver's beef? I still don't see what's wrong with finishing on the bridge.

Message from Richard Watts on the face book page.

Not sure who to contact and as a new member of the club not on the PTW forum. However I managed to place 27th and 39th at last nights TT happy to take the points though as its a combined 20. Time on my garmin was close 26:00 so I believe 27th is the accurate position. Cheers

Result revised

The beef of the motorist who complained had nothing to do with finishing on the bridge ,I will elaborate down the club room this evening

To clarify, I'm not suggesting that new PTW CLUB members are precluded from riding our club events. Just only allowing the current handful of second-claim members and not accepting what has effectively become entry on the line something that is, of course, not allowed in Open events which is what our Thursday nights have turned into.

What I mean by a newcomer is someone who has never done a time trial before, and isn't a member of any club. For example, they could be a mountain biker. I thought CTT themselves were encouraging this kind of open-door policy.

I did my first time trial on my college bike (inch and a quarter tyres and a rack for paniers), wearing a pair of shorts and some stout shoes (I'm not joking). Perhaps those days have gone (wistful sigh).

There is not enough daylight for that amount of riders. On safety grounds alone we need to restrict the numbers.

We could request that people intending to ride, contact us beforehand so we have an idea of the numbers and can turn people away if necessary without them having to make the journey there. Priority given to members and second claims of course.

How well that would work in practice is another matter.

Perhaps it might be better to accept entries from riders whose clubs actually promote open events,and to have a definite cut off time for entries ,and to accept no more entries regardless who they are' even club members,giving the timekeeper ample time to set the field.Alf on the night had a lot on his plate ,which was,nt helped by complaints by the public