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Tom Southam – Press Officer
Tom Southam will begin his third season with the Rapha Condor Sharp set-up in 2011.
After a moderately successful 2009, where he noisily took out an individual win at the Tour Series, 2010 was his tough year for Southam. A fall at the Lincoln GP left him with a broken elbow that left him sidelined and frustrated for almost the entire racing season.
Southam began racing with the countries most South Westerly club, the Penzance Wheelers, in 1994. He progressed through the youth categories before being selected for the World Class Performance Program in 1999. After racing as an U23 in France & Holland he turned professional for the Italian Amore E Vita team, before moving on to Barloworld in 2005.
There he spent two years at the service of ex-World Champion Igor Astarloa, riding several of the sports most important races. He briefly retired from the sport and moved to Australia, where he is now a resident in Melbourne for half the year. He returned to the UK cycling scene in 2008 alongside Rob Hayles at Halfords.
Twice a runner-up at the National Road Race Championships, Southam has represented Great Britain six times at the World Championships.
Tom Southam believes you should never trust anyone who talks about himself or herself in the third person. He should know, he wrote this.
Tom Southam likes: Saab 900’s. Melbourne. Paris-Roubaix. Punctuality. Monday mornings at 194 degrees. Simon Richardson’s flat. U2. The last hour of long haul flights. Rouleur magazine. Finding rare live tracks on Youtube. Coopers pale ale. Dark-haired girls. Girls in general. The coast road between Lands end and St. Ives. The excellent Dan Sharp (photographer). Australian girls. Thursdays. The Gaslight Anthem (band). Put me back on my bike, by Will Fotheringham. Georgie. The Artist Phillip Rothko. Sitting at a table with no-one who speaks my language. St.Ives. Friday nights at the Wine Bank. Wine by Some Young Punks. Avocado on toast. Having a 42 tooth inner ring. Santiago Botero. The Chas Messenger course. The National (band). Katy Perry (sexually not musically). Kurt Vonnegut (author). All Saints store. Embrocation Cycling Journal. Old Vitus frames. Bristol. My Folks. Rachel’s coconut Greek yogurt. Cakes by Jon-Locke. The Ace hotel, New York. Soho house hotel, Berlin. The Tour of Battenkill. Luke Frost (artist). Dinner at my sister’s. Breakfast in Melbourne. The European café. The Melbourne Supper Club. Munners Missus.
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