Brighton teacher Mike Coyle may be a veteran now but he shows no signs of slowing down.

Coyle, 40, stormed round the Steyning and Shoreham course to win the Brighton Excelsior 25-mile time trial and also led VC Etoile to the team prize.

Coyle clocked 55min.17sec to beat Paul Woodman (Eastbourne Rovers) by 30 seconds.

Tristan Court (Brighton Mitre) was third in 57min.25sec. Coyle was backed up in the team race by Carl Whitaker (59min.18sec) and Tim Mardall (59min.59sec).

Angela Nainby (East Grinstead) won the women's event in 1hr.3min.56sec and Steve Geran and John Limpus (GS Stella) won the tandem event in 52min.53sec.

Eastbourne veteran Harry Featherstone, 70, produced another amazing ride to finish just 38 seconds outside the hour. He beat his target time by a massive 21min.52sec to win the veterans' handicap.

Coyle said: "I'm hoping now to do well in my next race, which is the Rudy Project mountain time trial in Derbyshire in two weeks time."

A Sussex rider also came out on top in the Old Portliam CC ten-mile time trial near Horsham.

Southwater's Keith Reed (34th Nomads), who may soon be moving to Scotland, won in 20min. 53sec to beat Londoner Keith Coffey (Bec) by four seconds.

The team event was won by the Eastbourne Rovers trio of Lloyd Grayston (21min.47sec), Mike Davey (21min.45sec) and Peter Moon (22min. 9sec).

Another Sussex success came in the Bognor Regis club's open time trial, which produced a sensational result.

After 50 miles of racing, Friston rider James Dear (In Gear) won by the closest of margins. Dear clocked a personal best time of 1hr.50min.27sec to beat Hampshire ace Steve Walkling (St Raphael) by just one second.

The Sussex 12-Hour Championship, which was due to take place this weekend, has been cancelled because only 11 riders entered.

It was first held in 1948 but only a small percentage of riders now have the time or inclination to train for 12-hour events.

It didn't help that this year's race clashed with three other 12-hour events, one of which was the national championship.