As one of the founding members of White Knight RC, Pete has spent many hours working on the design and production of the club kit. This is as well as working as a manager at a busy sports centre and training for a full calendar of road races.

Pete began cycle racing as a junior in 1994 with the Rotherham Wheelers and as a senior raced with Maltby CC. After several years Pete moved to Mechelen, Belgium and spent over two seasons racing for an A division amateur club based in Antwerp.

On his return to the UK in 2000, Pete joined his local cycling club, Doncaster Wheelers, where he had a prolific season. In total he gained 250pts winning races such as Richard Hoyland Memorial, Aughton Road Race, Holme Valley Road Race and Seacroft Road Race. In that year he also managed to finish second in the North Midlands Divs. Riding 2 laps of the 10 lap race on a snapped frame!

After two seasons with Doncaster Wheelers Pete moved to ride for the Barnsley based cycle shop RaceScene. In his three years with RaceScene he was a consistent top ten finisher in elite and first category races up and down the country. This included winning Long Eaton CC's Presidents Challenge RR, Halifax RC's RR and finishing second, to his then team mate Martin Ford, at the 2004 Yorkshire Regional RR Championships, as well as placing 9th in the Tour of the Reservoir Premier Calendar in 2002.

Pete has had a solid start to the 2005 season with a second in the Thurcroft Spring RR and 3^rd place finishes in the Fenland Clarion Spring RR and the Pete Gannon Memorial RR.

Sadly Pete's season ground to a halt in mid July when he discovered he had a torn disc in his back.

After undergoing an MRI scan on his lower lumber spine it was revealed he had herniated a disc in the L5 S1 region. For those of you who don't know, this is a slight tear, which then allows the gel like fluid within the disc to leak out causing pain around the disc and irritating surrounding nerves.

Pete remains optimistic that he can overcome this latest setback and has ended his racing season prematurely in favour of a structured program of rehabilitation comprising of physiotherapy, core strength exercises, yoga and light cycling. This injury has, in retrospect, hindered Pete for longer than he first realised, possibly for several years. Now that the problem has been identified Pete's health care team, Dr Richard Higgins, Simeon Hempsall (osteopath) and Andrew Sweeny (physio) can devise a program to overcome these problems. If all goes well Pete will recover in plenty of time to have a good winter's training and return to racing in 2006, fitter, healthier and in his new WHITE KNIGHT colours!