Victorian Alps (Bright) @ 16 Feb - Marty Wright (left - BiciSport) & Dudley Hoskin (BiciSport) lost in the hidden gems of the Victorian Alps
Victorian Alps (Bright) @ 18 Feb - atop Mt Hotham with Craig Pager (left) and Dudley Hoskin
Victorian Alps (Bright) @ 18 Feb - Steve Holland, Craig Pager, Dudley Hoskin & Marty Wright at Mt Hotham
Grafton Inverell Classic for 2023 - The race promoters have announced a revised G2I Technical Guide for this annual Classic. Details can be found in Special Events in this website.
BiciSport is happy to announce it is sponsoring a 55k Junior road race in the village of Velle near Antwerp in East Flanders in Belgium on 19 March.
BiciSport is also sponsoring an Elite race in August in Velle and co sponsoring the Force Masters Team in Belgium from 2023 for a 3 year period.
Dates are now confirmed for the BiciSport trip to the Belgian Spring Classics 2023. See the dates below. Weekly News updates and Facebook posts will be from 15 March starting at the Nokere Kourse near Oudenaarde. Mike Lawson gets the ball rolling at the Strada Bianche on 4 March
March
4 - Strada Bianche (Italy), 15 - Nokere Kourse (Belgium), 18 - Dwars Vlaanderen Cyclosportive, 19 - Velle Junior Road Race (sponsored by BiciSport)
24 - E3 Classic, 25 - Ghent Wevelgem CycoSportive, 26 - Ghent Wevelgem Classic, 29 - Dwars Vlaanderen Classic
April
1 - Tour of Flanders CycloSportive, 2 - Tour of Flanders Classic, 8 - Paris Roubaix CycloSportive
9 - Paris Roubaix Classic, 12 - Brabant Arrow Classic, 15 - Amstel Gold CycloSportive
16 - Amstel Gold Classic, 19 - Fleche Walloon Classic, 23 - Liege Bastogne Liege Classic
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
21 Feb
Heffron Park Tuesday Night Criteriums @ 6pm
25-26 Feb
Husky Triathlon (Jervis Bay)
26 Feb
Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES
Every Mon/Wed/Fri Mornings
Centennial Park Masters @ Centennial Park
Meet at the corner of Parkes Drive/Grand Drive at 8.30am and do CP laps until 9.30am then coffee at Spruce Goose Cafe
Tues 21 Feb & Thurs 23 Feb
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 23 Feb
Belgian Waffle Ride @ Centennial Park @ Spruce Goose Cafe @ 10.30am for Park laps
Sat 25 Feb
Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
Miguel Poblet on the way to winning a stage in the Tour of Spain for IGNIS Pro Cycling Team
IGNIS Professional Cycling Team (Italy) - 1955-68
Italy (and much of Europe) was addicted to cycling sponsorship in the form of kitchens, home improvements, coffee, cigarettes or alochol. The Italian sponsor in IGNIS was home appliances (fridges, washing machines). The picture above is Ercole Baldani in the World Champions jersey together with Jacques Antiquel (FYNSEC). Team bikes were Frejus.
The team was around for 14 years but getting a handle on team results was limited. The team itself was littered with legends & cycling icons be it Ercole Baldini (1958 World Champion & Giro winner, Italian Road Champion) plus finished 6th in the 1958 Tour de France, Reg Arnold (Aussie track specialist but just for one year), Louis Bobet (French legend), Antonio Maspes (Italian track specialist), Gastone Nencini (won numerous Giro stages), Miguel Poblet (won in Spain regularly plus 3 Giro stages).
Ercole Baldini (IGNIS) in the World Champions jersey
Team IGNIS takes second in a Tour of Italy stage. The IGNIS team won the 1960 Teams Classification at the Tour of Italy. Note the tv camera car between the stage winner and the third place getter just behind.
IGNIS Team Presentation in 1960