News Shorts - 20 July

Michael O'Reilly

19 July 2020

Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre on 18 July - A well organised individual time trial by Penrith Club around Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre was held in bright sunshine with little wind with a good sized field of 120 starters. Tom Green & Randolph Baral represented BiciSport in the 20k Masters ITT effort. From the 32 starters in Masters 4-6 category Randolph posted 28min 23secs for 4th, and Tom posted 28min57 secs for 5th.
Mt Ku Ring Gai Criterium @ 19 July - Both Ian Cocks (Pilu Racing) and David Browne were on the Beaumont Rd start sheet
Waratah Masters Lansdowne Park @ 19 July - Ian Grainger was 6th in C grade
Recovery Ward - Speedy recovery to both Frank Signor & Tony Delgigante who had an “off” in Griffith on a training ride on 14 July. Frank cracked four ribs and both are recovering well albeit somewhat battered & sore

The smaller club events are quietly restarting (Heffron Park, Lansdowne Park, Eastern Creek, Penrith, Parramatta & West Head) but the larger promotions remain in the hurt box. It would be fair to say that mass participation events (with more than 500 starters) have a real problem at present. Covid 19 is most certainly sitting over our shoulder, and you get the sense that apprehension and serious concern is well and truly still with us.
Note that some of the bigger events have recently cancelled, including -
- Aug 22 - BiciSport Tour de France Dinner (with CJ Sutton)
- Aug 29 - Cootamundra Open
- Oct 5 - Gears & Beers Cyclosportive (Wagga)
- Oct 10 - World Masters Track Championships (Manchester, UK)

Caution still needs to be exercised on traditional cycling roads like McCarrs Creek Rd towards Church Point, then into Akuna Bay & West Head. Traffic volumes are much higher than normal
Centennial Park remains very busy with car traffic volumes have increased 20% courtesy of Covid 19

Please note the the entire stretch of the Manly-Queenscliff beachfront road is now limited to 30 kph

25 July - Oakville Road Race (Parramatta CC), Bundanoon Road Race (Southern Highlands CC)
26 July - Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters), West Head Road Race (Manly CC)

Note that each race organiser needs to have approved COVID procedures from each local Council before their race can proceed. So check on each club website to ensure that the club race has been COVID procedures have been approved.

Details are in the BiciSport Special Events section of this website with TTT training to potentially commence on Sunday 23 August at Terrey Hills.

The new newsletter scribe is Nigel Smith and the email is
- Bicisportnews@gmail.com
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This is a new (closed) Facebook site (your membership needs to be approved) and can be found at -

Special Events have been added & updated on the BiciSport website which includes -

Eastern Creek Raceway (Masters)
- Several weekends to choose from with the next ECR Masters booked for 9 August
Revised 2020 into 2021 BiciSport Special Events now updated

21 & 23 July - Waratah Peloton @ pass the corner of Yulong Ave & McCarrs Creek Rd Terrey Hills @ 8.05am for Akuna Bay, top of McCarrs Creek Rd climb at 8.40am, then direction Duffys Forest, then return Terrey Hills shops @ 9.15am then to St Ives for coffee
22 July - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return
23 July - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Chairmans Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe
25 July - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am