IAN BIBBY is targeting success at the upcoming Tour de Yorkshire after impressing on his Commonwealth Games debut.

The East Lancashire rider finished 12th in the road race on Currumbin beachfront on Saturday as his preparations for the domestic road season continued apace.

A JLT-Condor rider by trade, Bibby was making his Team England debut on Australia’s Gold Coast and finished ninth in Tuesday’s time trial despite suffering a number of mechanical issues during his ride.

He returned on Saturday for nine laps of the 18.7km circuit centring around the Currumbin region of the Gold Coast.

Coming in 11s back on the winner Steele von Hoff, Bibby admitted he got his tactics wrong in the closing stages but did not regret trying to win the race.

“I’m pretty nailed,” he admitted. “It was hard. I overheated a bit in the last lap and I was on my own by the end, without a lead-out so I thought the best option was to try and jump them.

“But it was a block headwind so it didn’t really work.

“We were trying to keep (Chris) Latham well positioned on the climbs, for the sprint finish, but he was struggling a bit on the last one.

“So after that I just though the best thing to do was to try and hit them early but I should have just sat in really - oh well.”

Bibby, from Mellor, will now spend a week training in Australia before returning to the UK for the fourth edition of the Tour de Yorkshire - which will run over four days for the first time this year.

And he is hoping to make up for lost time having suffered in the build up to the Commonwealth Games.

“It’s been amazing experiencing it all here on the Gold Coast,” he added. “Being in the village with all the different sports and athletes around, it’s been really brilliant.

“Next I’ve got the Tour de Yorkshire and then after that it’s the Tour of Japan and then a race in Canada, all within a few weeks of each other - so we’ve got a busy month.

“The Tour de Yorkshire should be good. I’m staying here for a week to get some training in.

“I was ill for three weeks last month, so I’m a bit behind really. Hopefully after a week here the legs will start coming for Yorkshire.”

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