PTW

Just a quick reminder that this coming weekend , Sept 24th and Sept 25th, sees our third double hill climb weekend to decide who will become the 2016 Club Hill Climb Champion.

On Saturday, we have the short, sharp Norton Hill Climb whilst on Sunday we have the long grinding ascent of the Bwlch.

Points will be awarded in each event and the rider with the most points over the two events wins. Lowest aggregate time will decide things in the event of a draw on points. Simples.

The Saturday and Sunday club rides will both start at 10.00hrs and go straight to the hill climb courses for an approximate 11.00hrs start. These are official club events and competitors must sign on and must wear race numbers. I'll get two watches synchronised but I will need a second timekeeper please!

Hopefully, Morgan Hendry will be defending his title and trying to make it a hat-trick of wins but with Matt Smith and Morgan Ley waiting in the wings the competition looks red hot.

Red sky in the morning...

Fingers crossed for the weather holding and good luck to all competitors!

PORT TALBOT WHEELERS – CLUB EVENT 24/09/16 – COURSE: NORTON HC

POS RIDER CLUB / TEAM TIME HC POINTS
1 NEIL SEAWARD PTW 1:29 20
2 KARL REES PTW 1.32 19
3 MATTHEW SMITH PTW 1:35 18
4 MORGAN LEY PTW 1:39 17
5 DAN BLACK PTW 1:52 16
6 ALEXANDRA THOMAS PTW 2:01 15
7 DAVE HENDRY PTW 2:12 14
8 HOLLIE LABUNSKY PTW 2:16 13
9 ANDREW STOTT PTW 2:18 12
10 OWAIN ROBERTS PTW 2:41 11

Great rides by everyone and especially our two 'noobs' who are looking forward to testing themselves on the Bwlch tomorrow. It's wide open as to who will win the 'two course' Hill Climb Championship.

Special thanks to Selwyn for pushing off holding the riders up, Tony Howell for being second timekeeper, Shirley for 'comms' work between the start and finish and to John Willy for coaching advice and supervision.

Norton PB's for Hollie, Matt and Morgan who went quicker than last year.

PORT TALBOT WHEELERS – CLUB EVENT 25/09/16 – COURSE: BWLCH HC

POS RIDER CLUB / TEAM TIME HC POINTS
1 KARL REES PTW 8:16 20
2 NEIL SEAWARD PTW 8:58 19
3 MATTHEW SMITH PTW 9:27 18
4 MORGAN LEY PTW 10:16 17
5 DAVE HENDRY PTW 11:32 16
6 ANDREW STOTT PTW 12:37 15
7 OWAIN ROBERTS PTW 12:41 14
8 HOLLIE LABUNSKY PTW 12:59 13
9 TONY HOWELL PTW 13:06 12
10 ANDY WILLIAMS PTW 14:10 11

More great rides today including three superfast sub-10 minute rides. First rider off, Owain Roberts, stayed as tete de la course, to finish a very respectable 7th and just eclipsed by Andrew Stott our second rider away from the start line.

Morgan Ley was the first of our big hitters to start and took a whopping 2:39 off last years time to finish fourth whilst Matt Smith took 1:37 off last seasons time to finish third. But our fastest two on the short Norton HC yesterday also proved to be masters of the Bwlch HC with Neil Seaward getting home in under nine minutes to finish second to Karl Rees who tore up the road to finish first with a hugely impressive 8:16 one of the best times recorded on this climb. Only a handful of PTW riders have gone quicker and one of the them was the guy pushing Karl off .