You have to go back well over two years, all the way to 14 October, 2023, before you alight upon a National Trophy cyclo-cross race that Thomas Mein did not win. They don't, after all, call him the Mein Machine for nothing.
Alongside the British National Championships (which he has also won) the 'Trophys' are the UK's biggest cyclo-cross races, complete with UCI accreditation (mostly – more on that later). Over the past three seasons Mein, the 26-year-old from Gateshead in the UK's North-East, has made the series his. This year has been his most dominant yet, winning five out of five races to date and claiming a third consecutive overall victory even before the final round has been raced.
