Friday Night Track Racing @ DGV @ 28 Aug - David Browne (BiciSport Happy Wheels)
Miramare Gardens Terrey Hills @ Sandstone Cafe @ 29 Aug - L to R .. Steve, Karl, Ian, Paul, Marty, Nigel & Eric. Coffee is every Saturday @ Sandstone Cafe from 9.30am. All welcome.
Mona Vale Road near Terrey Hills @ 29 Aug - Steve & Marty (photo courtesy of Eric)
The Tour de France has started and welcome to classic sleep deprivation for the next 3 weeks
BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS
Friday Night Track Racing @ DGV @ 28 Aug - FNTR has returned with a new promoter and its great to see DGV winter track racing back until early October. David Browne rode well in B grade and placed in nearly every event. Fields were excellent for the first night of the six week series.
Waratah Masters @ Lansdowne @ 30 Aug - Raoul Westbrook was 4th in D grade from 16 starters. Nice job.
Recovery Ward - Been a poor few weeks for rider injuries with Frank Signor (ribs), and now Jock Young (shoulder) plus 83 year old Noel Larose (ribs) after an off on the Homebush bike lanes near Parramatta River. Best wishes to Jock & Noel
NSW MASTERS ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR SINGLETON & GO FOR BROKE
For 2020 the NSW Masters Road Championships head for Singleton with the Individual Time Trial on the Friday, the Road Races on the Saturday (around the well known Team Time Trial course) and Criteriums on a new circuit at Broke (near Pokolbin).
The revised date is 9-11 October in Singleton
BiciSport will reimburse all Masters entry fees and contribute $100 per rider towards accommodation costs. For further details please contact Mike O’Reilly on 0417 403 244
RACE KEEPER or RACE SEEKER or RACE EXECUTIONER
The relatively smaller club events have restarted (at Heffron Park, Southern Highlands, Lansdowne Park, Eastern Creek, Penrith, Parramatta & West Head) but the larger promotions and cyclosportives remain in the Covid hurt box. It would be fair to say that mass participation events (with more than 500 starters) have an ongoing problem at present.
RACE EXECUTIONER UPDATE - LATEST LISTING
Note that bigger events continue to be cancelled as promoters feel the financial pain of complying with the ever changing Covid 19 climate coupled with State border restrictions that again can change at a moments notice.
You know things are tough when the Herald Sun Tour is due February 2021 and cancels in August 2020.
Recent cancellations include -
Sept 12 - Gunnedah Weekend (CycNSW)
Oct 5 - Gears & Beers Cyclosportive (Wagga)
Oct 8-9 - Tour of Gippsland (NRS)
Oct 10 - World Masters Track Championships (Manchester, UK)
Oct 11 - Around the Bay in a Day (Melbourne, Vic)
Oct 11 - Spring Cycle (Sydney, NSW)
Oct 16 - Womens High Country Challenge (Bright, Vic)
Oct 18 - Bowral Classic (Southern Highlands, NSW)
Oct 25 - Fitzs Challenge Cyclosportive (Canberra, ACT)
Oct 25 - Ride Daylesford (Regional Vic)
Nov 1 - MS Gong Ride (NSW)
Nov 8 - Mt Baw Baw Classic (Warragul, Vic)
Nov 8 - Amy Gillett Gran Fondo (Lorne, Vic)
Nov 15 - Bass Coast Classic (Inverloch, Vic)
Nov 21 - Giro Della Donna (Warburton, Vic)
Nov 28 - Ride Around the River Cyclosportive (Nambucca & Macksville)
Nov 28 - L’Etape (Nowra)
Nov 28 - Great Victorian Bike Ride (Vic)
Dec 3-5 - Tour of Bright (Vic)
Dec 3-5 - National Masters Road Championships (venue - tbc) watch this space
Dec 9-13 - Tour of Tasmania - watch this space
Jan 1-3 - Melbourne Bay Criterium Series (Vic) - watch this space
Jan 6-10 - Cycling Australia Road Championships (Ballarat) - watch this space
Jan 14-17 - Tour DownUnder (Women) - watch this space
Jan 19-24 - Tour DownUnder (Men) - watch this space
Jan 29-30 - Cadel Evans Classic (Vic) - watch this space
Feb 3-7 - Herald Sun Tour (Vic)
RACE SEEKER THIS WEEK
4 Sept
Friday Night Track Racing (Dunc Gray Velodrome) from 7pm
5 Sept
Oakville Road Race (Penrith CC)
6 Sept
Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK
1 & 3 Sept - 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
2 Sept - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return
3 Sept - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe
5 Sept - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am
Novy Dubble Bubble # 1 - If Italian teams can be sponsored by Brooklyn Chewing Gum then its no stretch to be supported by America’s Original Bubble Gum
Novy Dubble Bubble # 2 - its looks cold & brisk for Willy Van Nest (Flandria), Eddy Cael (NDB) and Christian Callens (NDB)
Novy Dubble Bubble # 3 - a classic & simple NDB jersey that gets the job done
Novy Dubble Bubble # 4 - Christian Callens in the NDB team kit. The frameset was Novy loaded with a totally obscure groupset
Novy Dubble Bubble # 4.1 - Paris Tours Classic 1972 with Noel Van Tyghem (NDB) leading
Novy Dubble Bubble # 5 - Framsets were Belgian in Novy, team cars were Peugeot, with additional sponsorship by Romy Pils (Belgian beer) and Total (petrol) framed by the Belgian coastline. How they ever got the team car on & off the Belgian sand remains a mystery