Lockerbie TT

5th Race of our ten mile handicaps

22 riders set off at Lockerbie for the 5th of ten handicap races where the top seven results count. John. Moir was fastest time with a time of 23:57. Ben. Smith, with a PB, was second at 23:57 and John. Patterson, also with a PB , third with a time of 23:59.

Other results were:
Billy Geddes 30:03, Rod Waitt 29:31, Ron Love 28:20, Adrian Garret PB 28:05, Donald McCalley 27:38, Colin Little 26:34, Alec Barclay 27:04, Alistair Johnson 27:08, Alex Ure 28:29, Nick Prichard 25:59, Graeme Kerr 26:21, Jim McConnachie 26:33, Alan Crieghton 25:32, Neil Henderson 26:08, Wullie McCubbin 25:06, Dave Barnes 25:27, Matt Wallace 25:31, Mike Thompson 24:28. Alfie Geddes was a non finisher.


PB denote personnel best at this distance

These 10 mile time trials are handicapped races which gives every member a chance to win points. The seven best from ten are taken into account.
John Patterson has increased his gap at the top over reigning handicap champion Mike Thompson. The gap is growing between them and third place John Moir, but watch for Ben Smith – he has scored 2 tens!
John had mechanical problems just after he started, so his time could have been better. Then again he could have restarted at the next available slot but his time would have counted from the time he should have started.
Wullie been getting a bit of a slagging at work for being bottom of the league. Shame we don’t print all those with “no points”.
If John Patterson scores a nine or a ten the next time he is out, then he would have ruled out 16 plus members out of the 35 who have ridden a ten any chance of winning the title!