2007 Guildford town centre criterium

Collar bone beginning to heal but certainly no way near well enough to even consider riding at Guildford crit with the course up the cobbled highstreet.
So chance to be a spectator and photographer. Ended up with reasonable number of decent pictures - this one of Warrick probably being my favourite with the chain bouncing all over the place - although did take hundreds.

Tour de France prologue

Watched the prologue for the Tour de France in London. Took lots of pictures. Whilst fairly happy with some of the ones of the riders, then see the professionals pictures (obviously with advantage of expensive cameras - sports photography and cycling in particular good test of equipment - and also not stuck behind 3-4 deep crowd) which make mine look very mediocre and amateurish.
So quite pleased to come up with a few original shots like this "meercats" one which although poor technically captured the spirit of the day quite well

Crystal Palace - 5th June

Breaking collarbone on Sunday equals abrupt halt to cycle racing season as competitor. So usual Tuesday evening racing replaced with bit of one handed photography at Crystal Palace. Quickly realising that even with reasonable dSLR (Pentax K10d) is still quite tricky getting decent photographs at cycle races.

Winning at Crystal Palace

Won at Crystal Palace making - for a while - the headline story on British Cycling website

http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/roa/EventReports2007/20070501_Cyrstal_Palace.asp