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Platinum Award - Young Volunteers

   Having recently completed my Gold British Cycling Young Volunteers award I am now working towards my Platinum Award by taking part in 36 hours of coaching and also 5 blog posts about my volunteering experiences. You can read these posts h ere .

Planet X Spitfire

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   Hi. Welcome to my first ever post. Here I will be talking about my latest ride on my new Planet X Spitfire.  My Spitfire setup     First a bit of background information on the frame and forks. Jamie Burrow, former Junior Road World Champion and designer for Planet X drew up the blue prints for the Spitfire and with his experience and knowledge designed a very fast and agile racing bike. After these designs had been given the all clear Sarto, the bike manufacturing company based in Italy designing and building high quality custom fit frames for racing, got to work building 12 of these new frames, one of which Jamie Burrow rode to victory in the Maratona dles Dolomites . This proved that this frame had lots of potential and so a lot of work was been done to further develop and finish up the frame for retail.    My latest ride on the Spitfire was a steady 50 mile morning ride around Cheshire as I had to be in school later on for a Duke of Edinburgh route planing after