John Tanner - Multi National Champion, Olympic Games (twice), World Championship and Commonwealth Games rider (three times). John is also the current Premier Calander Series winner (2002) and has won races all over the World.
Mark Lovatt - National Champion, World Championship and Commonwealth Games rider. Mark is also a former Premier Calander Series winner (2001).
Kevin Dawson - Multi National Champion and British Best All Rounder (BBAR) Winner seven (7) times, including 2002.
Emma Davies - National Pursuit Champion and Olympic, World Championship and Commonwealth Games rider. 4th in the Womens Pursuit in the World Championships (Belgium) and Commonwealth Games (Manchester) 2002. Currently ranked ranked 4th in the World.
Stefan Wilson - National Junior Champion 2002. (Kendal Rider)
Matt Brammeier - World Championship Rider 2002.
Mike Jolley - World Championship Rider 2002.
Graham Briggs
Ben Greenwood - British Universities Hill Climb Champion and is part of the Life Repair team at the RAS -the 8 day Irish FBD Milk Race.
Lorna Webb - represented the country as a junior and last year showed how fast she is with two stage wins in the Wighlink Two Day on the Isle of Wight
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Last years top team on the road last season in the UK, has a new name and a strengthened line-up as the 2003 season gets underway. The Life Repair Cycle Racing team, formerly known as the Compensation Group Racing Team will be racing in anger in the next few weeks and as a taster of what the competition should expect, I spoke to team manager Phil Leigh who has had a busy winter, moving house, organising new sponsors for his team, getting his PhD and taking a trip to the Arctic Circle. The latter was a strange thing to do I would have thought knowing how cold its been in the UK but I expect Phil had his reasons!
Leaving behind the achievements in the Leigh household, the Life Repair CRT will again feature some of the top riders in the UK. Leading the way will be John Tanner, one of the sports nice guys who knows how to win bike races and has been doing so for many years now. John, who has twice represented the sport at the Olympics and at last years Commonwealth Games, was also last years top rider in road cyclings top competition in the UK, the Premier Calendar. Backing him up is a rider who also distinguished himself last year by riding for England in the Commonwealth Games, Mark Lovatt. Mark is also a former winner of the Premier Calendar in the UK and one of the sports most colourful riders, livening up most races he rides, and often wins. The British Best all rounder, Kevin Dawson, one of the countries top time trialists and road riders, also lines up with the team again.
Backing up these riders are many young hopefuls as the team sponsor and management strive to find the talent who will in the years to come, replace the likes of Tanner, Lovatt and Dawson at the top of the sport. Riding for Life Repair will be Under 23 riders, Ben Greenwood, Stefan Wilson (last years national Junior Champion), Mike Jolley and junior Matt Brammeier, the latter two representing Great Britain in the World Junior road race in Belgium last year. Graham Briggs, an under 23 rider who Kevin Dawson has taken under his wing in an effort to help Graham go further in the sport, also joins the team.
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