Tumut Classic Cyclosportive @ 8 Jan - Melissa & Peter Budd on the Tumut start line
Waratah Masters @ Lansdowne Park Criterium @ 8 Jan - Ian Grant (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) in A2 grade rode aggresively all day and finished in the top 5. Lansdowne continues to attract good sized pelotons in each category.
Waratah Masters @ Lansdowne Criterium @ 8 Jan - Peter Verhoeven returned to Masters racing after a back injury & a dose of Covid 19. Peter rode C grade as a comeback effort with a target of returning to A2 grade in the immediate term.
HART Criteriums @ St Ives @ 1 Jan - Ian Grant on the narrow climb at the St Ives Driver Training School circuit
Noosa Hinterland @ 1 Jan - Klayton Smith (BiciSport Happy Wheels) with the 2045 Happy Wheels Team Time Trial squad
BiciSport Belgium @ 1 Jan - Koen VerHulst on a damp gravel ride along the Schelde River in East Flanders
BiciSport Belgium @ 1 Jan - Olivia VerHulst
Happy Wheels @ Khancoban in the Snowy Mountains @ 6 Jan - Stew Campbell and the team
BiciSport Terrey Hills @ Sandstone Cafe @ 1 Jan - Ian Grainger, Eric Dole, Marty Wright, Richard Mulberry & Nigel Smith
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
6-10 Jan
National Road Championships (Ballarat, Vic)
15 Jan
Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters)
17 Jan
Heffron Park Tuesday Night Criteriums @ 6pm
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES
Tues 10 Jan
Waratah Peloton @ pass the corner of Yulong Ave & McCarrs Creek Rd Terrey Hills @ 8.00am 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
Centennial Park Lower Loop from 5.30am to 7.45am
Thurs 12 Jan
Belgian Waffle Ride @ Centennial Park @ Spruce Goose Cafe @ 10.30am for Park laps
Waratah Peloton @ pass the corner of Yulong Ave & McCarrs Creek Rd Terrey Hills @ 8.00am 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
Sat 14 Jan
Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
Malvor Bottecchia Pro Cycling Team (Italy) - 1978-90
Numerous sponsors across 12 years with Malvor (womens cosmetics), Bottecchia (bikes), Colnago (bikes - for one year only), Hoonved (washing machines), Mavic (components), Sidi (cycling shoes). A team that existed over 10 years but wins were solely in Grand Tours. At the Tour of Italy they won 13 stages, France (x 2) and Spain (x 2).
The lead riders were Giuseppe Saronni (pictured above), then Lech Piasecki (Poland), Roberto Pagnin, Mario Beccia (single day specialist), Acacio De Silva (Portugal) and Daniel Gisiger (Swiss). They won their usual Giro stage which kept the team dream alive for over a decade but it was generally slim pickings in single day races where victories were few & very far between.
Roberto Pagnin
Mario Beccia (left) & Acacio De Silva (right)
