And his chance to fulful that desire will come in Tuesday’s under-23 time trial at the nationals – and do it riding for his new team, UK-based Team Wiggins Le Col, founded in 2015 by Tour de France winner and Olympic gold medallist Sir Bradley Wiggins.

Twice Armidale-based Jenner has finished in the top 10 in the under-23 time trial at the championships, before coming second, by a mere seven seconds, to his then-teammate, Callum Scotson, in last year’s race.

“This year I kind of wanted to take a bit more focus on to the time trial,” the 21-year-old said, adding: “I’ve won the [under-19] road race. The time trial, I’ve been close a couple of years now, so I really wanna just try and nail that one … It’s a monkey on my back that I wanna kind of nail, I suppose.

“It’s always been lingering around, and it would be good to just get it done, I suppose.”

Jenner rates himself a good chance of securing that breakthrough win. With the new season in his infancy, he said his extra leg muscle should help him in the race.

In Saturday’s road race, Jenner was beaten in a sprint finish by Ballarat-based Nick White, with Michael Porter second. All three riders were given the same time.

Jenner said winning the race was always going to be difficult because he did not have the assistance of teammates in the race.

“At the end of the day I suppose I left it out there, I had a crack,” he said. “But the race just didn’t pan out for me to win it, unfortunately.”

Commenting on his decision to leave his former team, Mitchelton-BikeExchange, he said he made the move to develop further as a rider. Team Wiggins Le Col, he said, was more “British-based than Australian-based”. He would be competing at the highest under-23 level. “It gives me the opportunity that I need.”

Inverell’s Dylan Sunderland, meanwhile, has made an eye-catching debut in the elite division, coming fifth in the road race on Sunday. He finished three minutes and 24 seconds behind the winner, Commonwealth Games gold medallist and world champion Michael Freiberg. Sunderland came 57th in the criterium on Friday, helping his Team UniSA-Australia teammate, Tristan Ward, finish second.

In other results, Inverell rider Brent Rees, who finished 10th in the under-23 criterium on Friday, came 33rd in the road race – finishing 3min 27secs behind White. Armidale rider Michael Harris finished 43rd.

Harris’ sister, champion mountain biker Holly, came 30th in the elite and under-23 road race – 6min 18secs behind the winner, Victorian teen Sarah Gigante.

Inverell’s Heinrich Haussler did not finished the elite men's road race. Holly Harris came 24th in the elite and under-23 criterium, while her brother came 22nd in the under-23 criterium.

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Tamworth Cycle Club member Steven Roberts finished 11th in the under-19 criterium and 37th in the road race, but came second in the road race’s King of the Mountain classification. His clubmates Luke Deasey and Conor Noonan did not finished the under-19 criterium, while Deasey placed 30th in the road race and Noonan did not finish it.