After several scheduling changes, half an hour of highlights from the Lincoln Grand Prix will be screened on British Eurosport on Saturday 26th May at 5pm.
The programme will then be repeated several times during the following week, and will also then be available from www.cycling.tv
Look out for the lads – Grant, Dan, Nic and Peter -Â in the GWR Team colours, as they battled against over 150 rivals and up the 1 in 6 cobbled hill they climbed 11 times!
Peter Kench powered to victory and a second place in the space of three days for the Wilier-sponsored GWR Team, – the fourth rider to chalk up a win for the squad this season.
Thursday saw the team compete in the second round of the Castle Combe Summer Series, over 17 laps A testing 51 kilometres of the motor racing circuit. (more…)
The Wilier-backed GWR Team’s newest signing, Jon Pain, took his first victory for the team in heavy rain at the Worcester St Johns Road Race on Sunday.
Pain, joined by GWR Team mate Ben Luckwell, faced almost 60 riders to contest 124 kilometres over six laps of an undulating 11-mile circuit based at Kempsey. (more…)
“It was quite a revelation to me how much faster I could climb with a bike that is six pounds lighter than my normal steel mount.â€
Arivee Magazine (for the Long Distance Cyclists’ Association)
The Wilier marquee is gradually making a name for itself in Britain, though it has a 100 year history of frame building in Italy to its credit and currently Team Lampre-Fondial and Team Confidis are using the frames in pro peloton. (more…)
Grant Bayton, of the Swindon -based, Wilier-backed GWR Team produced one of his best efforts of the season when he took on the country’s best riders in Sunday’s Lincoln Grand Prix.
The long established race, now in its 52nd year, is one of the most well-known on the UK domestic calendar and every one of the 180 riders entered were keen to take victory in the tough 86-mile event, contested over 11 laps of a circuit that included the awesome 1 in 6 cobbled climb of Michaelgate in the centre of Lincoln. (more…)
The May Day Bank Holiday weekend proved tough for the Wilier-backed GWR Team, with Ben Luckwell placing an excellent fifth in the first stage of the Nigel Measom Race on Saturday. (more…)
Billy Whenman is a Marin-supported teenaged MTBer who also rides on the road. Using a superb Wilier machine, Billy enters as many races as he can to give him strength and stamina for his efforts in cross country and endurance events. He is just back from the Isle of Man and the Junior National Tour. This is his report: (more…)
Grant Bayton notched up yet another top performance for the Wilier-sponsored GWR Team as he raced to fourth place in Sunday’s Thames Velo Road Race.
In warm, sunny conditions 69 riders faced the starter as they commenced almost five laps of a 15 mile circuit, east of Oxford totalling 73 miles. (more…)
Luke Smith is a 25-year-old supported Whyte rider from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. He is a mechanical engineer by trade for a diamond company and has made a glittering start to his new season by winning the Thetford Winter Series – although illness almost put paid to his chances. But Lucky Luke likes to mix it up on the road too – on an Italian stallion Wilier machine – and he took a good win on the Eelmore Circuit last weekend: (more…)
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