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Janet Birkmyre

Janet is a track cyclist who started her cycling career in 2003 and has since won 10 World Masters titles. She has also taken a number of European and National Masters titles. In 2008 she won the Elite National Derny Championship. In September 2006 she broke the World Masters Record (40-49 category) in the 500m TT in Manchester, with a time of 37:239 and in addition, she holds European Masters records for 200m (12.268) and the 2k pursuit (2.37.020). She also set a new national tandem for 5km on the 16th of May 2006 in a new time of 6:45:848. She wears Lake shoes, Limar eyewear and Vanguard base layers, uses Jagwire cables and KMC chains and is sponsored by Elmy Cycles and Orbea .


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ANDY CHATTERTON

Andy is a triathlete specialising in off road triathlons, he has competed for Great Britain at both World and European Championships. He also race MTB, Cyclo Cross, and runs Mountain Marathons. Andy is also a member of the Cannondale UK Race Team.


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William Cheaney



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Team Cyclelane



TORQ CYCLING TEAM

TORQ’s Performance Mountain Bike Team is a heavily sponsored professional outfit and their objective is simple. To unite some of the countries most accomplished Mountain Bike racers into a team with unrivalled strength in depth and to set an example to everyone involved in the sport that high-end performances are achieved in symbiosis with generosity of spirit, courtesy and integrity.


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James Emery

Martin Goodlad is an Ironman athlete who has raced at the World Ironman Championships in Kona twice.

James Emery is the team captain. James has raced two ITU age group World Championships in Lausanne and Hamburg and more recently competed at the 70.3 Ironman World Championships in Clearwater, Florida. Nick Shasha has been racing for Torq for a number of years and specialises in duathlon. Nick has raced at numerous ITU duathlon championships. Chris Panayiotou is new to the team and races Olympic distance racing. Chris is a talented all-round triathlete; last year at the highly competitive Windsor triathlon he finished 11th overall and 3rd in his age group.


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Dave Everett



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Richie Felle

Richie Felle is an Elite Irish Cross Country Mountain Biker. Richie has had many appearances in International World Cup races, numerous victories in the Irish National Series, and has consistently placed top ten in Ireland for a number of years.


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Maxine Filby

Maxine finished 2010 ranked fifth in the National Elite XC mountain bike standings. Maxine would like to gain consistent top 5 finishes in the British Mountain Bike Series and achieve a podium finish at the National Championships. Her longer term ambitions are to be National Champion, have consistent top 25 results in World Cups, gain a top 50 UCI ranking and represent Great Britain in major championships. So far, 2011 has seen her rack up 8 podium finishes...


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Alex Fisher



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Sam Gardner

Sam Gardner is one of Britain’s best Xterra off-road racers with a list of great results. Gardner entered the world of triathlon in 2005 after a successful career racing mountain bike cross-country both domestically and internationally. In his first triathlon season Gardner managed to win 13 races including the Vitruvian middle distance event. A year later he decided to combine triathlon with his mountain bike experience entering the European Xterra series where he came seventh overall before going on to the world championships in Maui, Hawaii where he finished 15th.


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team ibis goldtec

Team Ibis Goldtec is a Mountain bike racing team, based out of the Stoke on Trent area. Their team was originally founded by a group of guys who first started as riding buddies, the comradery of the riders and team is thier plus point and goes to make a cohesive strong team (who are never short of banter)! The Goldtec team is represented by riders from many different age groups, it doesn’t matter whether early teens, late 30’s or 40’s.


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Simon Hodgkinson

Simon rides for Team Ibis Goldtec. A Mountain bike racing team, based out of the Stoke on Trent area. Their team was originally founded by a group of guys who first started as riding buddies, the comradery of the riders and team is thier plus point and goes to make a cohesive strong team (who are never short of banter)! The Goldtec team is represented by riders from many different age groups, it doesn’t matter whether early teens, late 30’s or 40’s.


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Wendy Houvenaghel



George/Ollie Lynch

George and Ollie are both downhill riders and brothers from the South West of England. They both are keen and enthusiast riders who are new to racing in the sport and are trying to compete to their maximum at every event but at the same time enjoy themselves. They ride for Kenda and SR Suntour. George is currently ranked 18th out of 45 in Juvenile Category in the UK for his first year of racing in Juvenile.

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WXC Team Manager

The Women’s Cross Country (WXC) team competes at international level with a view to competing in the Olympics. The team consists of Carla Haines (Elite XC), Ricky Cotter (Endurance), Rachel Fenton (Elite XC), Hollie Bettles (XC), Katie Calvert (XC), Malin Tinberg (Expert XC), Jessie Roberts (Elite XC), Cait Elliott (Elite XC) and Gretal Warner (XC). The team ride Kenda tyres, Lake shoes, Limar helmets and Tifosi eyewear.


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Matthew Mountford

Simon rides for Team Ibis Goldtec. A Mountain bike racing team, based out of the Stoke on Trent area. Their team was originally founded by a group of guys who first started as riding buddies, the comradery of the riders and team is thier plus point and goes to make a cohesive strong team (who are never short of banter)! The Goldtec team is represented by riders from many different age groups, it doesn’t matter whether early teens, late 30’s or 40’s.


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Cranked365 MTB Team

For 2011 the team has expanded out in to 4X racing as well as keeping their three man Dirt Jump team in action. The Dirt Team consists of Ryan Nangle, Toby Ware and Matt Cooper. Their 4X Race Team consists of Jason Egan and James Wilson. Both James and Jason are from Bristol and have spent years riding and racing together across the UK at all the NPS and National Champs race's. In 2010 the guy's had their first year in Elite at the NPS and both did extremely well with Jason taking 13th overall and James taking an awesome 7th overall.


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Robert Orr

A young team of British and Irish riders with an average age of 23. The development of riders is an important factor in the creation of Forme Procycliste SanLamere, with the format of the team following that more often seen at an U.23 elite amateur/continental level in central Europe. During 2011 Forme Impsport SanLamere will proudly be riding Forme Bikes Zenith model whilst taking on a tough racing schedule consisting of various UCI stage and one day races in Europe as well as the Premier Calendar series in Great Britain. The team will also be racing elite races in France and Belgium in-between their major objectives.


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maxgear racing team

Maxgear are the UK’s No. 1 amateur road cycling team. Maxgear racing was formed in 2006 with a mission “To be one of the most successful cycling teams in the UK.” In this short period they have achieved exactly that. The team includes World and National Champions in many categories and finished 2010 ranked higher than a huge number of fully professional cycling teams. They were number eighth out of more than 1400 nationally ranked teams. Maxgear’s road team consists of 11 male riders, including team manager Wayne Greenhalgh, 4 juniors and 5 women.


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Team RockGardener

Formed in 2010. The team consists of two veteran and two masters category riders and we aim to show the MTB community that us 'old Blokes' can still race and more importantly enjoy ourselves.


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Pritchard SWYD

Cardiff born Pritch, is a professional skateboarder and one quarter of the Dirty Sanchez crew, who have their own television programme on MTV and also appears on Balls of Steel with Pancho as the Pain Men.

In 2006 Pritchard along with Lee Dainton, Michael Locke and Dan Joyce traveled around the globe doing stunts and pranks that related to the seven deadly sins in the Dirty sanchez film: Dirty sanchez the movie.

Pritch has raised a lot of money for charity over the last few years, through sponsored marathons.


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Michael Yard

This 18 year old’s main discipline is 4X, where he has consistently placed top 10. He decided to expand his abilities to Downhill Racing, and now has a proven track record of being placed in the top 3. This has inspired him to enter the British Downhill Series and the National Championships. His goals are to win the 4X National Championships and be the overall winner of the National Points Series.


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