Three days after the City of London Nocturne, the Lloyds National Circuit Series opens in Colne — with Rapha Super-League leaders Morven Yeoman and Tom Armstrong among a deep field on the town’s fast 830-metre circuit, and Matias Malmberg back to defend the open title.
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.
Luca Nicholson made it two wins from two in the Under-23 Open National Road Series on Sunday 14 June, the Velo Club Baracchi rider following his solo victory at Gilmorton with a perfectly timed sprint at the end of a rapid, interrupted Stourbridge CC round at Welland.
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.