National TT champs

iainf72

Amazing. Taken by a relatively unknown tester called David Millar

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/Mil ... 40650.html

Monty Dog

Just goes to show the difference between professional and domestic riders

iainf72

I'm readling the live reports from the US national champs road race and it's not much different over the pond.

dave_1

Millar now holds all 3 titles eh...Track Pursuit, Road and TT..wonder if he will follow through on what he said, which was, he went on the record in 2006 as saying he would perhaps appeal the ban on hid participation in Beijing 08

timoid.

Why did Millar never bother with this before. Surely its good for his team for him to be in the national TT jersey?

ContrelaMontre

Timoid. wrote:

Why did Millar never bother with this before. Surely its good for his team for him to be in the national TT jersey?

But then he wouldn't be wearing corporate colours, which some sponsors won't like.

I remember T-Mob didn't want Vino to race the Kazakh nationals in 2004(?) as they shuddered at the idea of Kazakh turquoise clashing with T-Mob pink. He went and won anyway and then rode the Tour de France like the different colour strip meant he was riding for a different team.

SteveR_100Milers

Unlucky Ruth in 4th for the women. Even more surprised to see Julia Shaw in 5th.

simmy1903

Monty Dog wrote:

Just goes to show the difference between professional and domestic riders

Reports on other forums state that Jason MacIntyre was 20 secs up on Millar with 12 miles to go when he punctured! Who knows what the outcome may have been. :roll:

OffTheBackAdam

It's interesting to see some quite famous names from the past, lurking in the various "Masters" categories.

nick hanson

ContrelaMontre wrote:

Timoid. wrote:

Why did Millar never bother with this before. Surely its good for his team for him to be in the national TT jersey?

But then he wouldn't be wearing corporate colours, which some sponsors won't like.

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Bet he's gone & won road & TT titles so he doesn't have to wear that love it or hate it Argyle team strip next year!

BeaconRuth

SteveR_100Milers wrote:

Unlucky Ruth in 4th for the women. Even more surprised to see Julia Shaw in 5th.

Thanks Steve. I don't know about 'unlucky', though. No surprises that Wendy and Rebecca took two medals and Caroline Kloiber rode a stormer for the silver.

Many many congratulations to Wendy. An emphatic win and doubtless due as always to an awful lot of hard work. It's easy to forget what sacrifices, effort and focus go in to winning when you see familiar faces at the top time after time.

Ruth

racklever

I have just added some blurry photographs of the day to my Flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/racklever

Feel free to add names to faces...

Dave

BeaconRuth

35 - Adrian Bird
29 - Rob Wood
21 - Adrian Bird
8 - Rebecca Romero
7 - Ruth Eyles
6 - Beverley Harper
5 - Avril Swan

Ruth

dave_1

Seems from quite reliable source, two seperate timekeeprs...one in Jason macs entourage and one an official time keeper, plus perhaps one other than jason mac would have beaten millar by a healthy margin...so hope Jason Mac is advised properly and gets abroad to a career rather than staying UK based and surely well below his earning potential in Europe...also what about him going to the olympics if he´s that much faster than the other Brits?

lucretius

I'm a big Millar fan, but I hope he doesn't appeal the ban. To me it shows he's accepting it as part of his punishmeny.

Plus it would be great to give some of the Brits who don't have a team a chance to show they could be of use to a Euro team.

Richie G

Looked a lovely day! Well done Ruth, great to see someone from hear mixing it with the best!

Rich