News Shorts - 10 August

Beware the 20 new speed bumps between Church Point and the National Park. You have to be left shaking your head in utter disbelief that anybody could consider this move as a meaningful solution to any traffic calming problems. Discussions are ongoing with the Northern Beaches Council.

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).
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

The smaller club events have quietly 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 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 bigger events continue to be cancelled as promoters feel the financial pain of complying with the ever changing Covid 19 climate coupled with border restrictions that again can change at a moments notice
Recent cancellations include -
- Aug 16 - Rob Vernon Classic (Bendigo, Vic)
- 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)
- Oct 16 - Womens High Country Challenge (Bright, Vic)
- Oct 25 - Fitzs Challenge Cyclosportive (Canberra, ACT)
- Oct 25 - Ride Daylesford (Regional Vic)
  - Nov 1 - MS Gong Ride (NSW) - decision pending
- Nov 8 - Mt Baw Baw Classic (Warragul, Vic)
  - Nov 8 - Amy Gillett Gran Fondo (Vic) - decision pending
- Nov 15 - Bass Coast Classic (Inverloch, Vic)
- Dec 3-5 - Tour of Bright (Vic)

Caution still needs to be exercised on traditional cycling roads like Pittwater Rd (through Dee Why to Mona Vale) and McCarrs Creek Rd towards Church Point, then into Akuna Bay & West Head. Traffic volumes are much higher than normal

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

11 Aug - CycNSW Annual General Meeting (Zoom)
15 Aug - Penrith Lakes Criterium (Penrith CC)
16 Aug
- Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters) , West Head Time Trial @ 40k & 25k (Manly CC)
- Mt Ku Ring Gai Criterium (North Sydney), Ken Dinnerville Handicap (CycNSW @ Gunning)

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

The new newsletter scribe is Nigel Smith and the email is
- Bicisportnews@gmail.com
If you’d like to be included on the email listing feel free to email Nigel and get in the loop

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 -

11 & 13 August - 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
12 Aug - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return
13 Aug - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe
15 Aug - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am