Visiting Team Sanjan Design riders Stuart Tarry and Nick Pitt were fastest at Icknield Road Club's 25-mile Evening League time-trial this week.

A total of seven Icknield members and six visiting riders competed, with two up pair Tarry and Pitt fastest in 54.39mins.

Icknield's Richard Gray was next in 59.11mins followed by Andy Parrish, 1.02.05hrs, and Paul Valks 1.04.15hrs. As a result Gray won the club's Skidmore Bowl trophy for the season's best 25-mile ride.

In a 10-mile time-trial a strong field of 17 riders competed, with visiting rider Mark Cook, of Team Planet X, fastest in 22.08mins. Best of the Icknield riders were Richard Noon and Gray riding as a two up pair in 23.17mins, followed by Andrew Paisley, 23.26mins, and Parrish, 24.45mins.

Eight Icknield riders competed at the 15-mile inter-club time-trial hosted by Beds Road Club on the A600 between Cardington Hangers and Shefford. Despite the wind, Icknield's best times came from Noon in 37.55mins, Barry Gilzean, 40.31mins, and Parrish, 41.39. The overall points event was won by the host club.

On Sunday, Peter Harridge was the quickest of Icknield's three-man team at the North Mids and Herts CA 100-mile time-trial. In good conditions he clocked 4.23.03hrs, Gray, 4.31.00hrs, and Gilzean, 4.42.57hrs.

Peter Hopkins, meanwhile, entered two events over the weekend. On Saturday evening he finished the Team Economic Energy 10-mile time-trial in 26.10mins and on Sunday afternoon he clocked a season's best 24.18mins in the Yorkshire Ladies CA 10-mile event in Hull.

Elsewhere, students from Icknield High School in Luton defeated children from Hemel Hempstead School in a cycling competition.

The youngsters, pictured below, are trained in bike handling, speed over short distances, manoeuvrability and other aspects of bike control on Saturday mornings at the school by Icknield Road Club coaches Richard Noon, Barry Gilzean and Peter Jones under the Team Beds and Luton Get into Sport directive.

Some of the older children have been taken to the banked cycle track at Welwyn Garden City for more intensive training on unbraked fixed wheel track bikes like the British team ride in the World Cup and Olympics Games.