ALFIE Moses may only have finished third in the fifth round of the National Trophy Series in Bradford on Sunday.

But the Keighley teenager had a double bonus.

The Paul Milnes Cycles-Bradford Olympic RC member not only wrapped up the overall junior men's title with a round to go but has also been awarded his Great Britain debut.

Moses is part of a four-man team for a World Cup race at Namur, Belgium on Sunday.

The 16-year-old finished behind Great Britain rider Mark McGuire (Team Bicycles) and national champion Tom Craig (Pioneer Scott Syncros) but has wrapped up the series victory.

If both the top two shed their worst result, he is 48 points ahead of Joshua Waters (Sherwood Pines Cycles SRAM RT), and there are only 40 points available for the winner.

Moses, who chose to start on the inside of what was quite a tight uphill bend at Peel Park, was ninth after the first lap but clawed his way back up the field to fourth with three laps remaining before making the podium.

However, after being overtaken by taller riders who began in the centre of the curve, he admitted afterwards: "Maybe I should have started more to the middle."

After a disappointing fourth round at Milton Keynes, where he was only seventh, Moses soon found himself trailing McGuire, taking part in his first National Trophy Series race of the season, Craig and several others.

Cononley's Ian Taylor was involved in the day's hard luck story as he was leading Darren Atkins in the men's 40-49 years' race when his rear mech broke in the closing stages.

This meant that Taylor had to carry his bike and back wheel up the last incline and along the finishing straight.

Atkins won by 25 seconds but they were far enough ahead so that Taylor was still able to finish second, 38 seconds ahead of Pete Middleton.

Taylor said: "Darren got away when I slipped off on the third lap but the same thing happened to him later and I was able to catch up.

"It was nip and tuck for a while between us until my rear mech broke when I put the bike down.

"I had to carry it for about 250 metres but I was too far ahead to be caught for second."

Team-mate Andy Peace from Haworth was seventh. Taylor is still leading the series with 232 points but is only four points ahead of Atkins with the sixth and final round to go in Derby on Sunday, January 5. Peace is a distant third on 151.

Former Stocksbridge resident Chris Young (Pedalsport CC) was second, 17 seconds behind Tim Gould (www.zepnat.com-Kuota-GSG) in the veterans' 50 plus, but still leads the series by 14 points from Philip Roach (Team Jewson-MI-Thule-Polypipe).

Young said: "I got a cold last week and when I tried to push to get first, there was nothing there.

"It just goes to show that, even at 50 plus, if you are not quite on it then you will lose a few places.

"They have tweaked the course a bit but it is still very good."

An exhausted team-mate of Moses, Sophie Thackray from Eldwick was fourth in the girls' under-16s and is third overall.