The grey skies overhanging the climb up Matlock’s Bank Road last Sunday was an explosion of colour - and noise. A sea of coloured coats and screaming spectators formed a 1000+ strong crowd along the 1.1 kilometre climb riders battled up at a gradient of 10.4% on the quest to become Britain’s fastest hill climber at the National Hill-Climb Championships.
On that Sunday in Derbyshire, new victors emerged, including women's victor Rachel Galler, and reigning champions staked a claim to their titles. Amongst those were fourth-placed woman, Lucy Lee (DAS-Hutchinson), junior women's victor, Ruby Isaac (Tofuati Everyone Active) and veteran champion, Lesley Fellows.
