www.cyclingbargains.com Racing Team Press Release 5-July-08

An early attack propels Dyson up the GC in the Ras de Cymru

www.cyclingbargains.com racing team braved strong winds and heavy rain in the penultimate stage of the Ras de Cymru at Breacon today.

Carl Dyson attacked straight out of the neutralised zone and was later joined by 2 other riders that together built up a lead of almost 3 mins by half way through the 68 mile stage. On the final 17 mile lap Dyson's lead group was joined by 8 others. With 4 miles to go Tim Wallis and Lee Tunnicliffe broke clear from the lead break and stayed clear with Wallis taking the final honours and putting 22 seconds into Tunnicliffe. With the remaining break splintering on the final 18% (1 in 6) climb Dyson sprinted for 6th place at 83 seconds behind Wallis. National, Olympic and World Road Race champion Nicole Cooke then sprinted clear of the chasing bunch some 2 mins behind to gain 6 seconds on the rest of the bunch which included Dyson's team mates Dave Palmer and Mike Cowland. A further group of 17 riders then came in just over 16 mins behind the race winner including www.cyclingbargains.com RT rider Andy Swain.

Commenting after the stage Carl Dyson said, "Today was a really hard day but the early attack paid off. Tomorrows mountain top finish will be 10 times harder though!"

Carl Dyson retained 2nd place in the sprints competition behind Joe Hemmant who has now gained enough points to secure the sprint competion.

Time spent in the leading break lifted Dyson to 2nd place behind Tom Crouch in the King of the mountains competition. With just 2 points holding him back from overall lead in this competition and 3 King of the mountains climbs in tomorrows stage there is plenty to race for still in this category.

The efforts of Dyson today also lifted him to 7th place on general classification just 3min 50 seconds behind new overall leader Tim Carter.

www.cyclingbargains.com racing team retained 5th place overall behind Cwmcarn Paragon, London Dynamo, Nicole Cooke's Team GB and Team Certini.

Tomorrow sees the final stage finish on top of a 600m mountain peak. Although only 5 miles long it promises to be a 25 min climb.