The racing has been great, but the politics towards 2024 is next level
Waratah Masters @ Eastern Creek @ 1 Oct - Ian Grant (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) on the B grade start line
Waratah Masters @ Eastern Creek @ 1 Oct - Ian Grant at the B grade finish
Waratah Masters @ Eastern Creek @ 1 Oct - Peter Verhoeven on the C grade start line
Waratah Masters @ Eastern Creek @ 1 Oct - Ian Grant
Waratah Masters @ Eastern Creek @ 1 Oct - Peter Verhoeven
BiciSport in Belgium @ 23 Sept - Mike Lawson (BiciSport Team Force) finished 7th in the Wingene Flanders cyclo cross
BiciSport in Belgium @ Kruibeke @ 23 Sept - Koen VerHulst (BiciSport Team Force) finished second in the Kruibeke Gravel race and nicely rewarded with some commemorative Duvel beer.
BiciSport in Belgium @ Kruibeke @ @ 23 Sept - Koen VerHulst (right) at the Kruibeke Gravel behind the eventual winner
BiciSport in Belgium @ Kruibeke @ @ 23 Sept - right to left in Eddy VerHulst, Mike Lawson & Koen VerHulst
BiciSport in Belgium @ 24 Sept - Mike Lawson (white helmet - BiciSport Team Force) joined his Team Force team mates around the Flemish rural laneways near the Dutch-Belgian border
Bright @ Victorian Alps @ 25 Sept - the Bright-Harrietville Rail Trail has been opened only a short time but this totally car free pedal is worth doing. It is 26k from Bright to Harrietville - so roughly a 50k round trip with coffee at Harrietville. The rail trail is ever so slightly up hill towards Harrietville and is narrow in some parts. This is more than compensated by numerous riverside sections with great natural beauty.
Ian Grainger & Mike O’Reilly completed the ride on 25 September in cloudy and chilly conditions
Bright @ Victorian Alps @ 25 Sept - the Bright-Harrietville Rail Trail runs beside the Ovens River
Bright @ VBright @ Victorian Alps @ 25 Sept - the Bright-Harrietville Rail Trail winds its way through the local forests near the road towards Tawonga Gap
Bright @ Victorian Alps @ 25 Sept - Ian Grainger & MOR at the Harrietville Cafe after the ride along the Bright-Harrietville rail trail
Bright @ Victorian Alps @ 25 Sept - MOR @ a chilly Bright before the 50k loop of Bright-Harrietville-Bright journey with team mate Ian Grainger
NSW TTT CHAMPIONSHIPS 7 OCTOBER @ SINGLETON
BICISPORT TEAMS
Masters 120+
Rolly Delaytz, Stew Campbell, Dudley Hoskins, Craig Pager, Steve Holland (Reserve)
Team Manager - Mike O’Reilly on 0417 403 244
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
2 Oct (Mon)
Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters)
7 Oct
Downes Nursery Classic (Eastern Creek Raceway)
NSW Team Time Trial Championships (Singleton, NSW)
8 Oct
West Head Road Race (Manly)
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 3 Oct & Thurs 5 Oct
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 5 Oct
Belgian Waffle Ride @ Spruce Goose Cafe @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am for CP laps
Sat 7 Oct
Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
Sun 8 Oct
Depart Shark Park carpark near Cronulla @ 9.30am for Kurnell & return
Novell Software Pro Cycling Team (Netherlands) - 1995
This team has been around for many years in numerous versions - Kwantum (1984-86), Superconfex (1987-89), Buckler (90-92), WordPerfect (93-94), Novell (95), Rabobank (1996-2012), Belkin (2013-14), Lotto Jumbo Visma (2015 +)
Novell was computers, Bell did the helmets, Colnago did the bikes , Decca the clothing
1995 was a virtual zero year results wise. Novell pulled the plug at the end of 1995 and so began the EPO drug era. Things got a lot better results wise after 1995 … just don’t ask why.
In 1995 … Erik Dekker won 5 races and Djamolidine Abdoujaparov won a Tour de France sprint stage. However, that was it for 1995. The rest were a classy lot but didn’t win much - Marc Wauters, Henk Vogels (Aus), Vlat Ekimov, Michael Boogerd, Frans Maassen, Leon Van Bon, & Edwig van Hooydonck. (pictured above) . A dose of the right EPO stuff helped from 1996 onwards.
Novell Software Pro Cycling Team (Netherlands) - Henk Vogels (Aus)
Novell Software Pro Cycling Team (Netherlands) - Henk Vogels (Aus)
