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2010 Moonglu RT Team Presentation

Story posted March 8, 2010; Team Press Release
 
Moonglu RT are pleased to announce their rider line-up for the 2010 season. Moonglu in Ripon, North Yorkshire are collaborating with Piccadilly Motors from Knaresborougha as primary sponsors of their fast evolving race team. First registered in 2009, Moonglu RT will field an 18 man line-up, captained by newly promoted 2nd Cat Steve Hodgson. The multi discipline team will participate in a range of events including road, cyclocross, track, time trial, mountain bike XC, triathlon and grass-track racing.

The team has a superb balance of riders, Nic Smith, Mike Harper and John Wilkinson will concentrate on the off road events, Mike Cross is a time trial specialist and the rest of the team will primarily stick to road events, but many off the riders will cross disciplines through the season dependent on the events calendar. A team has been entered for the Ras de Cymru 5 day road stage race and Mountain Mayhem 24hr mountain bike race, these will be the big 2 team events for 2010, but with a packed calendar, every race is important.

Team Manager and Moonglu owner, Neil Dunkley, is looking forward to the impending race season. “We’re very excited about the new season. After the success of our start up year in 2009, all the riders are very motivated to do even better this year. There’s a great balance between work ethic, teamwork and fun. We take our racing seriously but make sure we enjoy ourselves at the same time, this creates  real camaraderie and feel good factor and ensures our winning ways”.

New additions from the 2009 line up include father and son, Martin and Max Vesty, Mike Cross and Ian Mitchellson.

Moonglu RT 2010 Rider line up:

Will Bushby
Ian Chapman
Mike Cross
Chris Dransfield
Giles Dumont
Ian Featherstone
Mike Harper
Steve Hodgson
Seb Horner
Ian Mitchellson
Andrew Noble
Jason Shipton
Nic Smith
Stuart Spencer
Martin Vesty
Max Vesty
John Wilkinson
Sam Watts