The 7th round of the revolution bikes/tli wales winter x league returnend to Amlwch on the north east coast of anglesey for another race by the Holyhead cycling club.

on another beautiful sunny day the event proved to be a race of mechanical attrition, with more punctures in one race than in the previous 6 rounds.

the usual 2 top riders, Matt Pritchard and Chris Purt  battled in the lead for the opening laps followed by Vets Mark Baker, Ian Evans and Pete Windsor in there own seperate battle.

within one lap all but Chris Purt had punctured, both Ian and Pete retiring having run out of spare wheels and inner tubes.

Having changed wheels, Matt Pritchard, set off in pursuit of Chris Purt, but the mountain biker  put in his best ride of the series  with  Matt Pritchard unable to to close the gap eventually finishing 40 seconds behind at the finish.

1  Chris Purt Energy Cycles  17 miles in  57mins  37 secs

2 Matt Pritchard Revolution Bikes               @40 secs

3 David Procter                                          @ 3 mins 24 secs

Ist Vet

Mark Baker   Deeside Olympic CC

Final Race and prize presention is Sunday 28th Feb  11am

Plas FFrancon Sports Centre Bethesda Gwynedd.

There is a summer X league being planned as all the organisers of the winter series are keen to promote races in the summer months, watch the TLI 'New Leaguer' web site for details.