British Cycling

STEVE TAYLOR MEMORIAL
14th April; 2002, 136km, Maisemore,

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After being in breaks all day, Rob Hurd (Peleton) managed to stay away over the finishing climb to win the Steve Taylor Memorial ahead of James Taylor and Martin Forde. According to Dan Gregory in the commisaires car, Rob Hurd put in a superb effort to put in to bridge the gap on the last lap. When I left the race to make my way to the finish, there was a small break and two riders were trying to get across, one of them was Rob Hurd, the other from team Synergy.

The break's lead according to Dan was hovering between 40 and 20 secs when from the commisaire car he saw the figure of Rob in the rear view mirror ... as Dan went up the last hill towards Staunton, Hurd bridged across to the break, and then on the last hill before the final turn off at about 1500 meters, he got away again and stayed in front up the hill all the way to the finish.

More later...

 1. Rob Hurd           Peloton
 2. James Taylor       City of Edinburgh
 3. Martin Forde       PM
 4. Ben Luckwell       FS Maestro
 5. Danny Axford       Parrot Print/TAL
 6. Rory Wyley         www.sdeals.com 
 7. Nick Peatson       Chelthenham & District
 8. Chris McNamara     Team Synergy
 9. Richard Eastham    Team Synergy 
10. Paul Crook         Sigma Sport 
11. Richard Cartland   Team Synergy
12. Mark Perry         Bournemouth Arrow
13. Jason Burkett      Mid-Devon CC
14. Andy Parger        Mid-Devon CC
15. Ian Humble         Gloucester City CC
16. Grant Bayton       VC Prestige/Viner 
17. Liam Killeen       Gary Fisher 
18. Ian Packer         PM
19. Derek Kilgallon    Midridge RT
20. Vince Smith        Somer Valley

        

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