BiciSport @ E3 Saxo Classic @ 25 Mar - a Jayco rider leads the breakaway just after the Kortekeer climb
The day dawned cold, wet & windy but improved late in the day. Missed spectating at the Holleweg cobbles due to heavy traffic congestion coupled with a downpour of rain. So it was off to the Kortekeer climb then down to the Mariaborrestraat cobbles just outside Oudenaarde. The race at that point was splitting badly with maybe five groups. Sadly Peter Sagan was right at the back looking forlorn. Van Aert took the victory. What a Classic day.
BiciSport @ E3 Saxo Classic @ 25 Mar - Wout van Aert just after the Kortekeer climb
BiciSport @ E3 Saxo Classic @ 25 Mar - VdP causing some real agitation on the Mariaborrestraat cobbles just outside Oudenaarde
BiciSport @ E3 Saxo Classic @ 25 Mar - Wout van Amazing on the Mariaborrstraat cobbles
BiciSport @ E3 Saxo Classic @ 25 Mar - Peter Sagan looking like he wanted to be anywhere but on the Mariaborrestraat cobbles.
BiciSport @ E3 Saxo Classic @ 25 Mar - QuickStep team car near Oudenaarde
Michel Wuyts Narration @ Maarke Kerkem @ 24 Mar - Michel has been the leading Belgian tv commentator for many years and presented a cycling narration about Tom Boonen, Frank Van Den Broucke, Andre Tchmil & Jacques Anquetil
Michel Wuyts Narration @ Maarke Kerkem @ 24 Mar
BiciSport report on the Ghent Wevelgem weekend can best be described as wet, windy & cold.
Heffron Park Tuesday Criteriums @ 21 Mar - Rolly Delaytz (BiciSport Happy Wheels) takes second overall & second in B grade and just a single point behind the B grade Series leader with one round to go on 28 March. Go Rolly !.
Heffron Park Tuesday Criteriums @ 21 Mar - Henry Baird takes a great win and the B Grade Series pointscore lead by just one point from Rolly Delaytz (BiciSport)
Heffron Park Tuesday Criteriums @ 21 Mar - Rolly Delaytz (wearing the B grade Series Leader Jersey)
Heffron Park Tuesday Criteriums @ 21 Mar - Rolly Delaytz
NSW Masters Track Champs @ 19 Mar - Jeremy Hopson (BiciSport Pilu Racing) takes the Gold medal
NSW Masters Track Champs @ 19 Mar - Jeremy Hopson takes third
NSW Masters Track Champs @ 19 Mar - Masters medallists for BiciSport include Davide Browne, Peter Verhoeven & Ian Grant
NSW Masters Track Champs @ 19 Mar - Davide Browne goes Gold again
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
28 Mar
Heffron Park Tuesday Night Criteriums @ 6pm
Oh no, this is the last one until October 23
27 Mar-26 Apr
BiciSport to the Belgian Spring Classics
De Ronde over 1 & 2 Apr
1 Apr
Snowy Mountains Classic Cyclosportive (Jindabyne)
Tour of Brisbane (Qld, NRS)
2 Apr
Lansdowne Park (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 28 Mar & Thurs 30 Mar
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 30 Mar
Belgian Waffle Ride @ Centennial Park @ Spruce Goose Cafe @ 10.30am for Park laps
Sat 1 Apr
Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
Belgium @ Patersberg Training Ride @ 24 Mar - on a pedal near the Patersberg climb on the day before the E3 Classic and along comes Johan Miuseeuw and a happy snap ensued.
Johan was World Champion in 1996, won Tour of Flanders x 3, Paris Roubaix x 3 and E3 Classic x 2
The upcoming Belgian calendar going forward -
March
29 - Dwars Vlaanderen Classic
April
1 - Tour of Flanders CycloSportive, 2 - Tour of Flanders Classic
8 - Paris Roubaix CycloSportive (France), 9 - Paris Roubaix Classic
12 - Brabant Arrow Classic, 15 - Amstel Gold CycloSportive (Netherlands)
16 - Amstel Gold Classic (Neth), 19 - Fleche Walloon Classic. 23 - Liege Bastogne Liege Classic
The Ronde for 2023 - starts again in Brugge after a few years of starting in Antwerp. After the start a large loop out towards Kuurne, through Dienze, and the real action starts at Kluisbergen with 3 laps over the Old Kwaremont cobbled climb. The BiciSport group will follow the race by bike and see the Mens race five times and the Women’s race three times.
Flanders Classics 2023 have a 70 car fleet (yes, 70 !) of delightfully decorated BMW’s and this is the Race Convoy Lead Car. Now we are talking bling.