Robert Crampton

• team:

  Terra Footwear

• home town:

  manchester

• website:

  www.handi-ness.be/

• Facebook:

  [email protected]

• Twitter:

  robcrampton92

• likes:

  bike riding, drag racing, modified cars, folk music, indie music, tea drinking, winter club rides, manchester!

• dislikes:

  to much milk in tea, soap operas, American tv

• favourite race:

  Paris Roubaix

• If money was no object what would be the first thing you would buy:

  a garage full of old cars, but If i had to pin it down to one car it would be a series 1 e type jag, but give it an hour and maybe something different.

• What do you do when not racing:

  watch documentarys and british sitcoms. I like to read books on just about anything. In the off season i do the occasional tinkering with my volkswagen beetle.

• Race history:

  Is 2013 the first time you've had support from the DRF? 

  I have been funded for the last 2 years. The first time I went to Belgium I was 18 and went for 3 months after finishing my A levels. The following year I did a full season starting at the end of February and finishing at the end of September. I was riding for a local Belgian team and enjoyed the experience.

   

  What is your cycling history ? 

   

  I started riding when I was twelve; mainly doing Sunday club rides with seamons cycling club and track leagues for Sport city velo, as the velodrome was local. As I got older I started to favour the road over the track and it suited me better. As a junior I joined wills wheels cycling club as it was a more serious road racing club, and had a reasonable success as a junior, winning the north west championships and a string of top 10 results in the junior national series races. I am still a member of wills wheels and train with the club allot during the winter.

   

   

  What team are you joining in 2013?

   I am joining Terra footwear which is a step up from the team I rode for last year. The racing calendar includes many UCI races around France and Belgium which I look forward to riding.

   

  What is your race programme looking like?

   

   My racing program will mainly consist of kermis races, some bigger UCI races and stage races around France and Belgium, along with a few premier calendar races in the uk so plenty to go at.

   

   Are you going on a training camp with the team?

   

  No training camps; just training in the uk at the moment.

   

  When are you heading out to Europe?

   

  I am heading to Belgium at the end of February for the start of the season.

   

   

   

   

   

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