Kent Valley RC 2024 medallists

2024 Best All Rounder: D. Flux 260pts; runner-up D. Howarth 230pts.

2024 Veteran Best All-Rounder: D. Flux 260pts

2024 25-miles TT Champs winner: P. Rowe 1hr 9m 28s; runner-up R. Belk 1hr 10m 56s.

2024 10-mile TT Champs: 1. D. Flux 20m 45s; 2. .A. Thomas 22m 42s; 3. S. Vaughan 22m 47s

2024 10s TT points winner: D. Flux 200pts

2024 10s Road Bike TT Points winner – A. Thomas 111pts.

2024 Shap and Back TT winner: D. Howarth 1hr 20m 54s; 2: D. Orme 1hr 24m 55s; 3: S. Vaughan 1hr 29m 5s.

2024 John Wilson Memorial Cup H’cap TT winner: D. Orme, plus 11m 21s; 2: D. Howarth, plus 10m 46s; 3: S. Vaughan, plus 5m 36s.

2024 Most Improved Rider: D. Howarth

2024 Best Novice Rider: K. Mason

2024 Fred Rodway Memorial Long Distance Tankard: D. Howarth

2024 Steve Rayneard Memorial Bowl for merit: J. Bowe

2024 Vets v Non-Vets BAR winners - Veterans: D. Flux, D. Howarth and R. Belk.

Darren takes Shap and Back title

Darren Howarth comfortably triumphed in our final club time trial of the summer - the 28-mile Kendal to Shap and Back hilly.

Early mist cleared from the 1300ft summit in time for the riders to have a clear view of what lay ahead, and Darren had the strongest legs on the day with a time of 1hr 20mins 54secs. Second was Duncan Orme in 1-24-55 and third was Steve Vaughan with 1-29-54.

The original course for our September hilly event was the Circuit of Wild Boar Fell from Sedbergh but roadworks in Mallerstang ruled that out so we used Shap and Back but only on road bikes to negate cany fluky undertow winds off the rockwall at the top of Huck's Brow coming back.

The event also inluded the Wilson Memorial Handicap award and that went to Duncan with a plus time of 11mins 21secs. Darren was runner-up with plus 10-46 and Steve was third with a plu 5-36.

Ben freewheels to victory

Our annual Freewheel contest on the Old Town to Kirkby Lonsdale Road was a clear triumph for Ben Lovell.

With little wind to affect more than a dozen contenders, everyone managed to get across the Underley gateway before coming to a halt, but Ben was in a class of his own ahead of Alex Thomas to take first prize (a festive buff) well up the rise towards Kirkby. Competition for last place, among the "lightweights" at the rear of the finishing line, was close but Lucy Varney edged the lanterne rouge award (a no-pynch tyre tool).