teamwallis-CHH Cycling Team

Ashley Clitheroe and Henry Hunter worked well to try and protect Harry Tanfields 4th place today on the final stage of the Isle of Man Youth Tour.

On a flattish 15km loop on the outskirts of Ramsey it was always going to be difficult for highly placed GC riders to escape the bunch and gain the time necessary to take the overall win and so it proved. Read more ...

Harry Tanfield finished fourth on a tough and exciting second stage of the Isle of Man Youth Tour.

Over 11 laps of a testing 10km circuit, including the steep 'Switchback' climb, the second stage was a test of endurance, climbing power and nerve.

Attacks began to go from the end of the neutralised section but none were allowed to gain any significant gap before being brought back by the watchful peleton. Read more ...

Harry Tanfield rode a good timetrial in windy conditions to place third in the Isle of Man Youth Tour prologue.

Provisional top 5:

1 Jacob Ragan
2 Chris Latham
3 Harry Tanfield
4 Jake Kelly

Harry's teammates Henry Hunter and Ashley Clitheroe also rode strongly and are placed well going into the two main road stages of this Youth Tour.

This weekend sees the 2012 edition of the Sleepwell Isle of Man Youth and Junior Tour. The tour has been the birth of many pro-tour and top domestic riders including Peter Kennaugh (Team Sky), Andy Fenn (Omega Pharma-Quick Step), Jonny Mc Evoy (Endura) and many others. Read more ...

A great start to the weekend for the team, with Harry, Ash in the National B junior crit. A strong field was no barrier to young Mr Tanfield, a great performance saw him lead the bunch home. Ash scored his first National Points for the team with a great 12th.

Harry however seemed not tired and decided to enter the Elite crit only an hour or so later. He was joined by Steve Abbott, Jacob Tipper and Jack Waller. Amazingly he won that too! Jacob was also 8th, with Jack 10th and Steve 11th. A great start to our weekend.

teamwallis-CHH surpassed everyone's expectations this weekend, achieving a top-ten placing in Britain's only one-day race on the UCI EuropeTour calendar.

The Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic is billed as “Britain’s Paris Roubaix” and attracted a field of over 150 top riders from 20 different countries. UCI Continental teams from Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Algeria, Austria, Paraguay and the USA were keen to snatch the UCI points available away from the best Domestic Elite UK teams.

Atrocious weather conditions and a furious pace from the start meant that only 18 of the hardest riders beat the 10-minute cut-off time to fight it out on the finishing circuit.

Battling to an unbelievable tenth place, teamwallis-CHH's Rob Smail proved that a team with a modest budget but great ambition truly can mix it with the world's best. Read more ...

teamwallis-CHH rider Dan Davies and his Scott Foil took centre stage at the press announcement of the Aberystwyth round of the Tour Series, which will take place on Friday 25th May 2012, with teamwallis-CHH competing as guest team, at the invitation of our sponsor, Continental Tyres.

Full write up on Welsh Cycling, here.

Photo-journalist Ed Rollason joined teamwallis-CHH at the Tour Doon Hame.
Read all about his experiences here.

The first attack on a cold, damp day at Chew Valley Lake near Bristol came from Jack Plummer of Cadence Cannondale and the first time the race hit Stoke Hill at pace he had a 45 second gap over two chasing riders – Jacob Ragan and Jacob Scott who, in turn, were just 10 seconds ahead of the bunch. Jonathan Dibben – 3rd at last weekend’s Junior Paris-Roubaix – was to the fore in the bunch, making sure that nobody got too far away. Read more ...