The First Annual Herman Major/Grand Bahama Tank Cleaning Co Ltd Cycling Tour Championship Staged on Sat/Sun 9th -10th August, 2008.
Photo 1: Courtesy, BACF, Photo 2; Derek Carroll
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Results
Overall Winners
1st Place / Champion Keith Major Freeport Cycling Club
2nd Place Barron Turbo Team Warlords
3rd Place Tracy Sweeting Team JAR
4th Place Vince Turnquest Freeport Cycling Club
5th Place Kim Thompson
6th Place Wayne Archer Freeport Cycling Club
7th Place Eugene Heastie
8th Place Robert Bethel Team Warlords
9th Place Brad Heney Team JAR
Divisional Winners
Sr I / Masters I Sr II / Masters
1st Place Keith Major 1st Place Wayne Archer
2nd Place Barron Musgrove 2nd Place Eugene Heastie
3rd Place Tracy Sweeting 3rd Place Robert Bethel
4th Place Vince Turnquest
5th Place Johnny Hoyte
Sr III/ Masters III Junior Girls
1st Brad Heney 1st Antinece Simmons Team Warriors
2nd Bruce Silvera 2nd Abagail Minnis
Junior Boys
1st Anthony Biggie Colebrook Team Warriors
2nd Justin Minnis Team Warriors
3rd Rihaime Colebrook Team Warriors
Most Aggressive Cyclist
Kim Thompson and Vince Turn quest both cyclist out of Freeport
Stage I 54 miles
1st Kim Thompson Time 2hrs 46mins.04 sec
2nd Tracey Sweeting " " .04 sec
3rd Keith Major .05sec
4th Turbo Musgrove .09sec
5th Vince Turn quest 22sec
6th Wayne Archer 29sec
7th Eugene Heastie 2hrs.50mins.52sec
8th Robert Bethel 2hrs..53mins.27
Brad Heney
Stage II 30 mile Circuit Race Chicken Farm Road
1st Place Tracy Sweeting Time 1hr.20mins.58sec
2nd Keith Major 1hr.21mins.01sec
3rd Johnny Hoyte 1hr.21mins.28sec
4th Vince Turnquest 1hr.21mins.28sec
5th Turbo Musgrove 1hr.21mins.30sec
6th Wayne Archer 1hr.21mins.31sec
7th Kim Thompson 1hr.21mins.32sec
8th Brad Heney 1hr.28mins.26sec
9th Eugene Heastie 1hr.33mins.04sec
10th Robert Bethel 1hr.33mins.06sec
11th Bruce Silvera
Stage III 7 mile Individual Time Trial
1st Turbo Musgrove Time 16mins.22sec
2nd Keith Major 16mins.33sec
3rd Vince Turn quest 17mins.09sec
4th Tracy Sweeting 17mins.14sec
5th Kim Thompson 17 mins.42sec
6th Wayne Archer 18 mins.43sec
7th Brad Heney 19mins.16sec
8th Robert Bethel 19mins.43sec
9th Eugene Heastie 20mins.11sec
Stage Report
Saturday 9th August Stage I 60 miles Road Race High Rock to West End
The race started at about 10am in the morning, which is very hot, and the course was breezy. The Cyclist start off in a flash as race sponsor added several spot prizes throughout the race route and this caused a number of attacks by the cyclist. The first spot-prizes or sprint saw Keith Major/Kim Thompson/Tracy Sweeting / Turbo Musgrove go for it but Major won, the second one Tracy won, third was Major again, fourth was Tracy/ fifth one Tracy and the final sprint prime/spot-prizes was won by Major. These small incentives cause the race to pick up speed, the group of cyclist traveled throughout Freeport, Eight Mile into West End, at high rate of speed, causing the motor bike cop to blaze their sirens so the cars can move out of the way. This stage came down to a blazing sprint which was lead out by Vince " Superman " Turnquest at about 35 mph. The sprint went with Turbo, Major, Thompson and National Road Champion Tracy Sweeting, but it was seconds separating the winners, Kim Thompson won, Sweeting, Major, Musgrove,Turnquest to round off the top 5 places.
On Sunday the other stages was held, Stage II, Stage III, along with the juniors 10/8/08
The juniors take to the street with a short circuit race covering 12 miles, they started off with attacks from Justin Jet Minnis, Antinece followed, along with Abagail, and they continued this way for most of the race. But as Anthony Biggie Colebrook decide it's his turn and sprinted out of the cycling group, not to be seen again. So the fight came down to the others as Antinece out sprinted Justin, Rihaime and Abagail for second place, Abagail next, Rihaime.
In the Stage II for the Male….. 30 miles
The race from start to finish was a number of sprints, break always and attacks by all the cyclist, Tracy/Hoyte/Major/Thompson made several breaks, but they where brought back in, Hoyte and Tracy, Thompson /Tracey, Major/Thompson/Musgrove and all efforts was brought back in. But it was in the last few miles Major/Tracy made a break and was not brought in, Tracy won, Major second.
But it all came down to the last stage the time trial 7 miles the race of truth, and the leaders was only separated by seconds….. They left at 1 min interval to take on the 7 mile cycling course and at the end it was Turbo Musgrove with the winning time, Major second, Vince third etc
In the masters II it was also a battle as Robert Bethel, Eugene Heastie and Wayne Archer battled for the lead from day one. The lead change from stage to stage, one minute Bethel had the lead, the next stage Heastie had the lead and after the Time Trial Wayne Archer from Freeport just got the win over the rest. In the Master III newcomer to riding just around a year over in the Bahamas , Brad Heney who competed with the top guns and was right in the group, so there was no one in that cat's that could beat him, it was a good win for Brad Heney.
Special thanks go out to:
Major Sponsor: Mr. Herman Major & The Grand Bahama Tank Cleaning Co Ltd
Grand Bahama Cycling Committee
Andrew Bell who served as an Official
Rowshan Jones who served as an Official
Mr. Herman Major who served as an Official
Mr. Bruce Silvera
D'Albenas Agency Ltd
The 'Mail Boat' for Transporting Bikes
Bell Channel inn
Zulu's Car Rental
Bahamasair
