Vet­er­an cy­clist, Adam Alexan­der was the fastest man on wheels on Fri­day's open­ing day of the in­au­gur­al T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion's Vir­tu­al Time Tri­al Event at the In­door Cy­cling Stu­dio at Mu­cu­rapo Road, Port-of-Spain.

How­ev­er, the Team Raiders rid­er who has for many years worn the red, white and black for the twin-is­land Re­pub­lic will have to wait un­til the end of ac­tion on the fi­nal day to­day to know if he is the over­all win­ner.

The cy­cling fed­er­a­tion which is be­ing led by Joseph Roberts de­cid­ed not to re­lease the times of the rid­ers un­til af­ter the event. How­ev­er, rid­ers who were sched­uled to take part in yes­ter­day's (Sat­ur­day) sec­ond day and to­day's fi­nal, will have to pro­duce the per­for­mances of their lives to bet­ter Alexan­der who has been in the best of form up un­til the COVID19 pan­dem­ic brought sports to a halt.

Alexan­der was fol­lowed in the sec­ond po­si­tion on the day by Ja­son Costel­loe who rode un­at­tached, and third-place Den­nis Ramirez, who was the first man to take the vir­tu­al ride Fri­day, com­pet­ing for Team Raiders.

Mean­while, Mikela Her­nan­dez was the lone fe­male con­tender on the day, out of a reg­is­tered field of about three women among 30-plus males.

That field is set to change though as Guardian Me­dia Sports un­der­stands that the reg­is­tra­tion for the event is still on­go­ing.

Chair­man of the Rac­ing Com­mit­tee of the TTCF Gre­go­ry Dan­drade said Fri­day's open­ing event well quite well and he is ex­pect­ing things to get even bet­ter for the oth­er two days. "I was pleased with what I saw. A good turn-out of rid­ers, over 30, which is a step in the right di­rec­tion. I think what needs to hap­pen though is that there need to be more bikes for the event. I al­so think that the event should open for the pub­lic to view, but all this will hap­pen in due time," Dan­drade ex­plained.

Ten rid­ers, in­clud­ing one woman, were sched­uled to con­test yes­ter­day's event and an­oth­er 15 or so for to­day. The rid­er with the fastest time will be de­clared the win­ner.

Mean­while, the Road Cri­teri­um will take place on Au­gust 1 around the Bri­an Lara Sta­di­um in Tarou­ba.