Otley Race Team

Round 3 of NERRL, coming into the race the team was tied for first with Moonglu in the team classification but with some amazing efforts all round our riders secured a team win. An amazing efforts from all riders who contributed to this, well done 🙌.

On the day, Kev unfortunately got distanced early on but never gave in, showing pure determination! Thomas managed to bridge across to the break but unfortunately this was caught with 1.5 laps to go. Another move went up the road, Zack managing to position Ed and Thomas amazingly into the climb with it splitting up again with Ed and Thomas in the front group. Ed picking up 6th in the sprint and Thomas 10th in the end, Ed also coming away with 1st junior. An amazing race for our riders and for some rounding out their season, well done!

Huge thank you to our sponsors who make these things possible and for supporting our riders throughout this season:
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Team of 3 this weekend down at the Junior Tour of Wales, the last round in the Junior National Series. A tough 3 hilly road stages and a 10 mile TT lay ahead, good luck boys give it your best!

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We have a reigning National Champ!!! What a week for Ed! Winning the National Gravel TT Champs for a second time 💪 which is mega and backing it up with 3rd in the bunch race on such a hard course. What an amazing weekend and achievements Ed! 🙌🙌

Emily at round 4 of NECL finishing 3rd after working with 1 other rider once the race split up, managing to regain her 2nd cat as well to top it off!
Tom S and Zack also up in the NE with Tom going solo with around 20 minutes to go to finish 5th which Zack just a bit further back.

Christoz down at Darley Moor for the qualifier for the 2027 European Sprint Duathlon Championship, managing to take 1st overall with a 21s pb as well!

An amazing weekend for the race team and hoping to continue this at the JToW and NERR this coming weekend 💪.

A massive thanks to our sponsors for their support:
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Junior Tour of Mendips, first of the 3 stages was a TT, our riders giving it their best despite the heat.

Stage 2 was relatively flat, a hard race from the start with a break going early on the first lap, Tom S bridged the gap with another rider 20 miles later managing to stay away till 1 lap to go where the break was caught by a group of around 10 riders. Tom finishing 10th in the sprint and bagged 3rd in the primes!! The other boys finished behind safely in the bunch.

Stage 3 was another flat course but with a 1.5k climb at 12%, the bunch splitting up as a result of 4 ascents. Daniel managing to stay with a group of around 10 riders but splitting to pieces on the last lap and he finished 23rd on the stage and 24th on GC. Tom S, Zack and Thomas kept battling their way overtaking riders up the climb to the finish after another hard stage. A great weekend of racing, bring on JToW in a few weeks time!

A massive thanks to our sponsors as always for their support of the team:
MAS Design Consultants Ltd
Chevin Cycles
Santini UK
Otley Cycle Club
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Richardson Electrical

Solid week of racing for the team, highlight rider being Ed with 2nd in the e123 over at Hull midweek, a fast one spent chasing the break managing to pull off 2nd in the sprint from a great position, nice one Ed!!

Over at Walshford on Saturday Daniel TT’d his way to 1st junior in the YCF 25 with a pb of 58:06 on the undulating course.

At the Seacroft Wheelers RR in the 234 open, Ed took the race on from the front in the break for over half the race, unfortunately this move getting caught. Nonetheless Aden and Tom S giving Ed a lead out for the sprint resulting in 14th for Ed, Sam in 19th, Aden 26th, Harry 27th, Tom S 41st and Tom E 45th, well done a great team effort!

In the Womens 34 the race split up early on with the front group whittling down to 5 riders with a few laps to go, the group managing to stay clear of the bunch and Emily sprinting to 4th in the end! Thank you to for the 📸 and Seacroft Wheelers for organising!!

Great week everyone, keep it up🙌

Massive thanks to our sponsors for their continued support as we head into the latter part of the season!
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Another successful week of racing, Monday evening saw Daniel and Ethan at WRTL champs, Daniel coming 3rd in the sprint competition and winning the junior overall and Ethan not far behind!

Harry raced over at Colne in the 34 just narrowly missing out on the podium with a fab 4th in the sprint finish well done Harry Collingwood-cooper!

To round up last week Daniel raced up in the Lakes taking 4th overall in the 234 RR on an undulating course as well as 1st junior and 3rd cat, managing to gain his 2nd cat license and give himself a nice birthday present!

Thank you to our sponsors as always for their continued support:
MAS Design Consultants Ltd
Santini UK
Chevin Cycles
Otley Cycle Club
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Richardson Electrical

The race team is growing, we’re looking for riders keen to race and develop.

If you want to be part of the next generation of OCC RT get in touch via email at [email protected] or send us a message!

Finishing off a big week of racing we have 6 of our junior riders taking on the Junior National RR Champs on the Pennypot circuit. Another race close to home, good luck to the blue train, you’ve done the blue jersey proud this week keep it up 🙌.


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Otley Town Centre races, what an evening! An amazing atmosphere as always, some races may not have gone to plan but the support was there throughout for our riders at our home race was incredible!

The main event for us was the 234 open race with 15 riders on the start line! A fast and furious race started off with Daniel off the front lap 1 putting on a great display of the blue jersey talent but getting caught. As the race went on our riders stuck with it in the bunch and towards the front. Unfortunately on the last corner of the last lap Ed, Daniel and Thomas came down but Tom C managing to pull off P10 a great result. We wish everyone that came down a speedy recovery for tomorrow’s race at Ilkley. Well done everyone a true show of the blue train!

In the u14 race Ethan getting distanced early on but never giving up, showing determination till the very end and getting pbs all round, well done Ethan. Likewise in the elite women’s race Emily getting distanced early on but carrying on till the end.

We go again tomorrow over in Ilkley 💪.

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A huge thanks to our sponsors for their support, it was great to have some of you there last night:
MAS Design Consultants Ltd
Chevin Cycles
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