Adam Hartley won the Mennock Pass Stage Race overall on Sunday (14 June), overturning a seven-second overnight deficit on the queen stage to take the general classification by 2 seconds. Noah Bleteau (Team All Cycles Meaux) won the stage with a solo attack on the final climb to Wanlockhead, but it was Hartley’s chase behind him that settled the race. For a rider who walked away from the sport in 2019, it was quite a return.
Logan Maclean leads the Mennock Pass Stage Race overnight after winning Saturday’s prologue and surviving a wind-blown, briefly neutralised opening road stage (13 June). Ahron Dick (Edinburgh Bike Fitting RT) won the stage in a two-up sprint with Samuel Nisbet (Team Tactic U23), and took the bonus seconds that came with it, but fell three seconds short of the race lead. Sunday’s racing will settle it.
Millie Thomson won the Torvelo Women’s Road Race at Douglas on Saturday (13 June), out-sprinting a reduced front group on an exposed moorland circuit.
Nina Lavenu (AG Insurance Soudal Development Team) and Matt Bostock (Rapha CC) took victory as domestic cycling returned to the Square Mile for the London Nocturne, Lavenu delivered by teammate Leonie Bentveld after a ten-rider move shaped the Elite Women’s race, before Bostock held off national champion Cameron Mason from a four-rider break in the Open race.