Fred Whitton Challenge 2017

Full details of how to enter the 2017 Fred Whitton Challenge will be on our site in December 2016 and entry will open from January 2017. For the last few years organisers have been oversubscribed with entries, requiring a ballot. If it is the same again the result of the ballot will be released around the second week of January.

Until his untimely death at the age of 50 in 1998, Fred Whitton was an extremely popular member of the Lakes Road Club. In his capacity as club secretary he was full of enthusiasm for the club and ran it practically single handedly. He was the organiser of the Lakes Road Club Easter 3-day each year which attracted many of the UK’s top riders.

Not only was Fred the main instigator behind all the clubs activities, he was always there on the club runs and training weekends, cracking a joke, having a laugh and generally enjoying the sport to the full. Amongst all this, Fred also managed to find the time to be the Lakes & Lanc’s Division Road Race Secretary and was well known and liked throughout North West cycling circles.