News Shorts - 2 November

BICISPORT TEAM TIME TRIAL TEAMS ANNOUNCED - GO TO SPECIAL EVENTS PAGE

• For 2020 BiciSport is entering six teams to the TTT Championships at Singleton on 7 November

• All event details, including training ride details, accommodation, race day parking arrangements, team managers and time tables are now in the Special Events section of this website. Please note we are still using Shearers Farm for team car parking on 7 November

• Any logistical issues over the weekend please contact Mike O’Reilly on 0417 403 244

• START TIMES ANNOUNCED

  • Challenge Pilu Racing Team

    • 8.46am - Hopson, Munro, Benson, White

  • Masters 180+

    • 10.14am - Grainger, Lawson, Robb, Westbrook

    • 10.20am - Verhoeven, Budd, Dole, Zumbo

  • Masters 150+

    • 11.30am - Pilu, Coy, Reizes

    • 11.34am - Campbell, Cockerton, Hoskin, Baral

  • Masters All Ages

    • 12.30pm - Hall, Delaytz, Groen, Green

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• NSW Elite ITT Championships @ Gunning @ 31 Oct - Tim White (BiciSport Elite) finished 7th @ 7min47secs

RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK

• 3 Nov - Tuesday Heffron Park Summer Series (Maroubra)

• 7 Nov - NSW Team Time Trial Championships (Singleton)

• 8 Nov - Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters), BiciSport Ride to Mirannie Church (Singleton).

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 3 & 5 Nov - 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

• 4 Nov - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 5 Nov - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 7 Nov - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

• 8 Nov - BiciSport Singleton Team Ride to Mirannie Church @ 8.00am

TonTon Tapis - Universally acclaimed as one of the worst jerseys ever designed. TonTon Tapis was a carpet sponsor, Gios were the team framsets, Renault (team cars) and GB (Belgian supermarket). Team managers were Roger De Vlaeminck & Marcel Van Der Slagmolen.

The original “motley crew” of a professional cycling team. Too few riders in their prime (like Laurent Biondi) and for the majority it was the Last Card Saloon and pending retirement was beckoning. The team only existed for one year and that may have been a good thing.

TonTon Tapis - Laurent Biondi (1991 World Champion)

TonTon Tapis - Lawrence Roche giving it 100% at the 1991 Tour de France

TonTon Tapis - 1991 Team Presentation that included notables in Stephen Roche, Jean Claude Colotti, Dirk De Wolf, Francis Moreau & Laurent Pillon.

News Shorts - 26 October

Kurri Kurri Kermesse @ 24 Oct - Ruth Strapp rode well in Womens Division 2 and took 5th place in her first race back from injury

BiciSport Griffith ride from Griffith to Canberra over 19-21 November via Temora, Boorowa then into Canberra. Contact details are listed below.

BiciSport Griffith members with Frank Signor & Peter Budd

BICISPORT TEAM TIME TRIAL TRAINING ON 1 NOVEMBER

• BiciSport Team Time Trial Training @ 1 Nov - the final BiciSport TTT session is set for Sunday 1 November

• BiciSport teams have the option of either Terrey Hills (meeting at the usual Sandstone Cafe off Myoora Rd @ 7.30am) or the West Head TTT promotion (decision is up to each individual team)

BICISPORT GRIFFITH TO CANBERRA - 19-21 NOVEMBER

• BiciSport Griffith are riding from Griffith to Canberra over three days commencing Thursday 19 November (overnight Temora), then overnight at Boorowa (20 November), then into Canberra on 21 November. For further details contact Peter Budd on 0431 012 174

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• Kurri Kurri Kermesse @ 24 Oct - Ruth Strapp was coming back from injury and took a rewarding 5th place in Womens Division 2.

• Speedy Recovery - to Travis Shields (BiciSport Master) after a rubber side up and will be out of action for a few weeks

RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK

• 27 Oct - Tuesday Heffron Park Summer Series (Maroubra)

• 1 Nov - Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters), West Head Individual & Team Time Trial (Manly CC), BiciSport Team Time Trial Training (Miramare Gardens, Terrey Hills)

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 27 & 29 Oct - 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

• 28 Oct - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 29 Oct - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 31 Oct - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

• 1 Nov - BiciSport Team Time Trial Training (either West Head or Terrey Hills)

Riso Scotti was an Italian team from 1998-99 and came out of the demise of the MG Technogym team. The primary sponsor was Riso Scotti (rice producer).

Team managers were unchanged from MG Technogym in Bombini, Volpi, Leali & Ferretti. Framsets were De Rosa and groupsets were Campagnolo.

The dates of 1998 & 1999 are something of an indication that team performances were “interesting”. Team members included Baldato, Bobrik, Schefer, Casagrande, Cenghialta, De Luca, Minali (won a Giro stage), Micelli (also won a Giro stage) and Basso. History would be unkind to some but dull it most certainly wasn’t.

Riso Scotti team presentation in 1999

News Shorts - 19 October

West Head Road Race @ 18 Oct - Conor Tarlington, MOR, Eric Dole & Tom Green

West Head Road Race @ 18 Oct - Ian Cocks (3rd from right, Pilu Racing) rode well in Masters A grade

West Head Road Race @ 18 Oct - Travis Shields looking comfortable in the Masters A peloton

West Head Road Race @ 18 Oct - Conor Tarlington in the B grade peloton

West Head Road Race @ 18 Oct - Eric Dole leads the Masters peloton and got in the break of the day with his trademark style of racing.

Singleton Masters @ 10 Oct - Ian Grainger (second on right) goes bunch sprinting in the Masters 9 Road Race finish just outside Singleton

BICISPORT TEAM TIME TRIAL TRAINING on 25 OCTOBER RESCHEDULED to 1 NOVEMBER

• BiciSport Team Time Trial Training @ 25 Oct - POSTPONED to 1 NOVEMBER

• Due to bad weather in Sydney the final BiciSport TTT session is now set for Sunday 1 November

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• West Head @ 18 Oct - Another well organised Manly CC promotion, albeit with slightly fewer numbers than entered due to uncertain weather conditions (the day dawned delightful and yes, you missed a great race). Masters A - good rides by Ian Cocks & Travis Shields. Masters - Eric Dole rode assertively as is his trademark. B grade Masters - Jeremy Hopson, Conor Tarlington rode well and poor Tom Green punctured (again !).

• Recovery Ward - Speedy recovery to David Cooper (in Orange) & Mike Lawson

RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK

• 20 Oct - Tuesday Heffron Park Summer Series (Maroubra)

• 24 Oct - HEZ Criteriums (Kurri Kurri)

• 25 Oct - Heffron Park (Waratah Masters)

Courtesy of the latest Covid outbreak in Belgium the Ghent 6 won’t be happening in late November 2020.

BiciSport supported the Tumut Classic in 2019 …. to such an extent Melissa & Peter Budd featured in the 2021 publicity poster above. BiciSport will be returning in January 2021 so reserve the date. Its a great course & the event raises money for the Tumut Hospital.

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 20 & 22 Oct - 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

• 21 Oct - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 22 Oct - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 24 Oct - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

• 25 Oct - BiciSport Team Time Trial Training @ Sandstone Cafe @ 7.30am

Jollj Ceramica # 1 - After weeks in Belgium, its back to Italy and Jollj Ceramica. The team was only small but highly accomplished from 1973 to 1977. As the name implies the main sponsor was ceramic kitchen tiles and pavers. Campagnolo was the groupset of choice. Bikes were Pinerello.

The team itself was mostly Italian pure class - Gio Battaglin, Fausto Bertoglio (won the 1975 Giro), Knut Knudsen, Pierino Gavazzi (the designated team sprinter) and Martin Van Den Bossche (ex team mate of Eddy Merckx from the Faema days).

Jollj Ceramica # 2 - Fausto Bertoglio climbing the Stelvio Pass on the way to victory at the 1975 Giro

Jolly Ceramica # 3 - Team Presentation from the 1976 Tour de France

Jollj Ceramica # 4 - Martin Van Den Bossche maybe did not win a lot by was undoubtedly one of the best super domestics of all time

Jollj Ceramica # 5 - Martin Van Den Bossche was a famous team mate to Eddy Merckx at the 1969 Tour de France (riding for team Faema). Martin switched to the Jollj Ceramica team late in his very successful career.

It was March 2015 and Mike O’Reilly was determined to see if he could get a Jollj Ceramica jersey autographed by Martin himself. So with the assistance of Sille De Bock we located Martin in nearby East Flanders. Martin now owns a successful kitchen renovations business and greeted us both warmly and kindly signed a jersey and duly dated it 19-3-15. Martin couldn’t speak a word of English but it didn’t deter from a totally great experience.

Martin Van Den Bossche (Faema Team) leads Eddy Merckx in the 1969 Milan San Remo Classic

News Shorts - 12 October

Singleton Masters @ Oct 9 - Matt Coy took the Bronze Medal in the Individual Time Trial

Singleton Masters @ Oct 9 - Dudley Hoskin took the Bronze Medal in the Individual Time Trial

Singleton Masters @ Oct 9 - the Pilu Racing team with Jordan, Gio & Matt

Singleton Masters @ Oct 9 - Gio Pilu (on the trainer) and Jordan Reizes before the start of the Individual Time Trial

Singleton Masters @ Oct 9 - Gio Pilu in the Individual Time Trial warm up

Singleton Masters @ Oct 9 - Mike Lawson at the Individual Time Trial start

Singleton Masters @ Oct 9 - Peter Verhoeven at Shearers Farm before the Individual Time Trial

Singleton Masters @ Oct 9 - Ian Grainger starts the Time Trial

Singleton Masters @ Oct 9 - Tom Green at the Individual Time Trial at Shearers Farm

Singleton Masters @ Oct 10 - Road Race start for Eric (the French Flying Baguette) Dole and Peter Budd.

Eric was on the attack all day and left nothing in the tank. Peter rode very well and went top 10 overall.

Singleton Masters @ Oct 10 - Eric Dole threw caution to the wind, got in the break of the day and attacked all day but was in the hurt box towards the finish. It was the ride of the Championships but was not rewarded with a medal.

Singleton Masters @ Oct 10 - Mike Lawson in the Road Race

Singleton Masters @ Oct 10 - Ian Grainger rode an outstanding Road Race for 5th

Singleton Masters @ Oct 10 - Matt Coy (pictured) and Jordan Reizes were outstanding in the Road Race and both just outside a medal with Matt 4th and Jordan 5th

Singleton Masters @ Oct 10 - some lovely Hunter Valley countryside greeted the road race pelotons

Singleton Masters @ Oct 11 - On the M5 criterium start line with Gio Pilu and Randolph Baral

Singleton Masters @ Oct 11 - Matt Coy was prominent in the M6 criterium all race and settled for 4th

Singleton Masters @ Oct 11 - M6 Criterium and Matt Coy (second wheel) gets the bell lap as riders crash behind him (on the left)

Singleton Masters @ Oct 11 - M7 Criterium and finally after three days we’ve found Peter Verhoeven !!

Singleton Masters @ Oct 11 - Peter Budd & Eric Dole featured prominently in the M7 Criterium

Singleton Masters @ Oct 11 - Eric Dole was on a hot day in more ways than one and attacked several times

Singleton Masters @ Oct 11 - Mike Lawson turns bunch sprinter !! in the M8 Criterium

Singleton Masters @ Oct 11 - Ian Grainger in the M9 Criterium had flashbacks to Lansdowne Park Criteriums (where he usually finishes 5th) … which he sort of did for 8th

NSW MASTERS AT SINGLETON - HOSKIN, REIZES & COY TAKE BRONZE

• NSW Masters Road Championships @ Singleton @ 9-11 October - BiciSport starters included Peter Budd, David Munro, Peter Verhoeven, Dudley Hoskin, Matt Coy, Jordan Reizes, Gio Pilu, Tom Green, Eric Dole, Jeremy Hopson, Ian Grainger & Randolph Baral.

• Notwithstanding Covid delays on the actual date & somewhat predictable non existent event marketing the Masters peloton turned up in strong numbers.

  • Individual Time Trial @ 9 Oct - Both Dudley Hoskin & Matt Coy took the Bronze medal in their respective categories.

    • M2 - Jeremy Hopson 19th @ 25min41secs

    • M4 - Tom Green 10th @ 25min02secs

    • M5 - Dudley Hoskin 3rd @ 24min50secs, Randolph Baral 9th @ 25min46secs, Jordan Reizes 10th @ 25min56secs, Gio Pilu 12th @ 26min05secs

    • M6 - Matt Coy 3rd @ 26min15secs

    • M7 - Peter Verhoeven 7th @ 28min04secs

    • M8 - Mike Lawson 6th @ 30min22secs

    • M9 - Ian Grainger - 9th @ 31min23secs.

  • Road Races @ 10 Oct

    • M2 - Jeremy Hopson 26th @ 53secs

    • M3 - David Munro 13th @ 12min42secs

    • M4 - Tom Green punctured on the start line, day over, but then raced Eastern Creek on the Sunday !

    • M5 - Jordan Reizes 5th @ bunch time, Randolph Baral 24th @ 3min55secs, Gio Pilu 30th @ 10min40secs, Dudley Hoskin 31st @ 11min32secs

    • M6 - Matt Coy 4th @ bunch time

    • M7 - Peter Budd 8th @ 1min44secs, Peter Verhoeven 16th @ same time, Eric Dole 20th @ 2min01secs

    • M8 - Mike Lawson 8th @ 9min36secs

    • M9 - Ian Grainger 5th @ bunch time

  • Criterium @ Broke near Cessnock @ 11 Oct

    • M5 - Jordan Reizes 3rd place @ bunch time, Gio Pilu 14th @ 58secs

    • M6 - Matt Coy 4th @ bunch time

    • M7 - Eric Dole 7th, Peter Budd 8th, Peter Verhoeven 14th @ bunch time

    • M8 - Mike Lawson 9th @ 1min38secs

    • M9 - Ian Grainger 8th @ bunch time

RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK

• 13 Oct - Tuesday Heffron Park Summer Series (Maroubra)

• 17 Oct - NSW Elite Criterium Championships (Heffron Park, Maroubra)

• 18 Oct

  • Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)

  • West Head Road Race (Manly CC)

  • Mt Ku Ring Gai Criterium (Northern Sydney CC)

  • HEZ ITT (Kurri Kurri) by ATTA

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 13 & 15 Oct - 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

• 14 Oct - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 15 Oct - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 17 Oct - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Kelme Professional Cycling Team is more a case of what you can’t say in defense of the indefensible. This team defined the term indefensible.

Established in Spain from 1986 until 2006 with Kelme (shoes), Costa Blanca (Regional Government) with bike sponsorship from Gios or Merckx. Groupsets were Campagnolo.

A patchwork quilt of “quality” riders in respect of Valverde, Heras, Sevilla, Casero & Escartin & Co. The team was much more infamous for the Manzano doping allegations from systemic blood doping and the Operation Puerto doping allegations. In short, a team full of results with two victories in the Tour of Spain but much more notable for the less appealing aspects of a great sport.

News Shorts - 5 October

Eric Mather Cup @ 5 Oct - David, Eric, Travis, Peter, Davide, Tom, Eddy, Stew, Dom, Graham, Rolly & Suzy

Eric Mather Cup @ 5 Oct - Rolly Delaytz (BiciSport Happy Wheels) & Travis Shields (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) on the Division 1 start line. Rolly’s day ended prematurely with a puncture at half distance.

Eric Mather Cup @ 5 Oct - Travis Shields (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) was prominent at the front of the Division 1 peloton all race.

Eric Mather Cup @ 5 Oct - Peter Verhoeven (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) on the Division 2 start line

Eric Mather Cup @ 5 Oct - BiciSport Happy Wheels line up in Division 2 with a reflective Eric Dole, Graham Cockerton, Stew Campbell & Tom Green.

Eric Mather Cup @ 5 Oct - Graham Cockerton & Stew Campbell (BiciSport Happy Wheels) were prominent in Division 2 with Stew on a comeback race after an injury

Eric Mather Cup @ 5 Oct - Ace cycling commentator Paul Craft (left) chasing another velodrome specialist in Davide van der Browne (BiciSport Happy Wheels) in the Division 3 peloton

Eric Mather Cup @ 5 Oct - Dom Zumbo raced conservatively in Division 3 being in recovery mode from a recent training accident. It was great to see Dom buying a race number.

Eric Mather Cup @ 5 Oct - on the Division 4 start line with Ian Grainger, David Cooper & Eddy Ahumada

Eric Mather Cup @ 5 Oct - Ian Grainger & David Cooper (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) in Division 4.

Eric Mather Cup @ 5 Oct - Raoul Westbrook rode well in Divison 5

BiciSport TTT training @ Terrey Hills @ 4 Oct - L to R … Stew, Dudley, Graham & Randolph on the Golf Club climb

BiciSport TTT training @ Terrey Hills @ 4 Oct - L to R … Davide, Raoul, John, Len, Dom & Mike going past the Golf Club on Booralie Rd Terrey Hills

BiciSport at the Tour of China 2000 (Shenzhen stage) - Darren Benson (the BiciSport rider in red Points Leader jersey) with Mike O’Reilly far right in the shorts. The crowds & support were simply amazing … so we took a team picture with some very friendly local police & military. We had a great time in Shenzhen.

BiciSport TTT training @ Terrey Hills @ 4 Oct - the BiciSport team time trial training is underway and the very same Darren Benson (from the Tour of China 2000) jumps a ride with our BiciSport TTT teams. How great was it to catch up with a youthful Darren again some 20 years later on the Golf Club hill at Terrey Hills.

AUSCYCLING & CYCLING NSW PRESENTATION ON 28 SEPTEMBER

• There was a video conference held by all NSW Clubs and the CyclingNSW Board on Monday 28 September to discuss the go forward on the AusCycling proposal. Further discussions will be held on Tuesday 6 October. with all NSW clubs. BiciSport will convey the outcomes to its members via this website, email & BiciSport Facebook as soon as circumstances permit.

NATIONAL MASTERS ROAD CHAMPS AWARDED TO QUEENSLAND - EARLY DECEMBER

• NSW hasn’t seen a National Masters Road Championships since Griffith in 2016, notwithstanding that NSW is by far the biggest Masters State by membership. Gosh, wonder why ? ….

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• No Brakes Racing @ DGV @ 2 Oct - The final round of the NBR Series with Davide van der Browne took the Division 2 series victory. Well done Davide !.

• Waratah Masters @ Lansdowne @ 4 Oct - Ian Grainger was 8th in C grade

• Eric Mather Cup @ 5 Oct - A strong BiciSport contingent took part in a cracker of a Waratahs promotion. Big fields, good prizemoney & intense competition in every grade. How good was that. A heavy crash marred Division 2 but another outstanding promotion by Waratah Masters.

RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK

• 6 Oct - Tuesday Heffron Park Summer Series (Maroubra)

• 9-11 Oct (Fri-Sun)

  • NSW Masters Road Championships (Singleton & Broke, CyclingNSW)

    • BiciSport starters are Peter Budd, Peter Verhoeven, Dudley Hoskin, Rolly Delaytz, Eddie Ahumada, Matt Coy, Travis Shields, Jordan Reizes, Gio Pilu, Tom Green, Eric Dole, Graham Cockerton, Ian Grainger, Mike Lawson, Randolph Baral & Raoul Westbrook

• 11 Oct - Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters)

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 6 & 8 Oct - 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

• 7 Oct - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 8 Oct - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 10 Oct - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Sandstone Cafe @ Terrey Hills @ 3 Oct - Ken , Neo, MOR, Marty, Neil, Ian & Peter

RACE EXECUTIONER UPDATE - LATEST LISTING

• Latest (new) cancellation is the Grafton to Inverell Classic on 14 November

• Recent event cancellations include -

  • Oct 8-9 - Tour of Gippsland (NRS)

  • Oct 10 - World Masters Track Championships (Manchester, UK)

  • Oct 11 - Around the Bay in a Day (Melbourne, Vic)

  • Oct 11 - Spring Cycle (Sydney, NSW)

  • Oct 16 - Womens High Country Challenge (Bright, Vic)

  • Oct 18 - Bowral Classic (Southern Highlands, NSW)

  • Oct 25 - Fitzs Challenge Cyclosportive (Canberra, ACT)

  • Oct 25 - Ride Daylesford (Regional Vic)

  • Nov 1 - MS Gong Ride (NSW)

  • Nov 8 - Mt Baw Baw Classic (Warragul, Vic)

  • Nov 8 - Amy Gillett Gran Fondo (Lorne, Vic)

  • Nov 14 - Grafton to Inverell Classic (NSW)

  • Nov 15 - Bass Coast Classic (Inverloch, Vic)

  • Nov 21 - Giro Della Donna (Warburton, Vic)

  • Nov 28 - Ride Around the River Cyclosportive (Nambucca & Macksville)

  • Nov 28 - L’Etape (Nowra)

  • Nov 28 - Great Victorian Bike Ride (Vic)

  • Dec 3-5 - Tour of Bright (Vic)

    • Jan 1-3 - Melbourne Bay Criterium Series (Vic) - watch this space

    • Jan 14-17 - Tour DownUnder (Women) - watch this space

    • Jan 19-24 - Tour DownUnder (Men) - watch this space

    • Jan 29-30 - Cadel Evans Classic (Vic) - watch this space

  • Feb 3-7 - Herald Sun Tour (Vic)

Histor # 1 - Belgian professional team from 1986-91.

Primary sponsorship was by Histor Sigma (paint), Ford (cars), KB (bank), with bikes by Basso or Diamant (depending on the year). Groupsets were Campagnolo and the picture above features the Campagnolo Delta centre pull brakes (one of the most dysfunctional caliper brakes ever invented)

A design classic, simply stunning, poetry on a bike …. they just didn’t work !

Histor # 2 - Several top line riders including (Etienne De Wilde - Belgian Champion, Tour de France stage winner, 6 Day track rider), Herman Frison, Stephen Roche, Rik Van Slyke and Wilfred Peeters (currently long time QuickStep Sports Director).

Major wins were the Ghent Wevelgem & E3 Harelbeke Classics.

Histor # 3 - another win by Etienne De Wilde in the Belgian Champions Jersey

Histor # 4 - Etienne De Wilde wins a sprint stage in the 1988 Tour de France

Histor # 5 - Benjamin Van Itterbeek was Belgian National Road Champion .. trying to figure out how to stop

Histor # 6 - no guessing that the primary sponsor was a paint company

News Shorts - 28 September

West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - Jordan Reizes (BiciSport Pilu Racing) took a great win

West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - L to R … Rolly, Mike, Randolph, Tom, Suzy, Eric, Eddy & Conor

West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - Gio Pilu, Jordon Reizes & Matt Coy (BiciSport Pilu Racing)

West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - Rolly Delaytz looking comfortable in the early stages. The peloton subsequently split soon afterwards and Rolly got caught out on the wrong side of the split.

West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - Gio Pilu leading, then further back is Matt Coy (Pilu Racing) and Dudley Hoskin (behind Matt)

West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - Eric Dole (Happy Wheels) leads the peloton with Matt Coy (Pilu Racing) just behind, and further back there is Randolph Baral (Happy Wheels) & Gio Pilu (Pilu Racing)

West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - Pilu Racing were prominent all day with Jordon Reizes leading then Matt Coy on 5th wheel with Eric Dole (Happy Wheels) off to the left

West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - David Munro (BiciSport Pilu Racing)

West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - Tom Green (Happy Wheels) looking comfortable

West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - Mike Lawson (Anytime Fitness) leading the peloton

West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - Eddy Ahumada & Mike Lawson (Anytime Fitness)

West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - Dudley Hoskin (Anytime Fitness) rode well until a last lap puncture ended his day

Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre ITT @ 26 Sept - L to R with Peter Verhoeven, MOR & Kieren Roche. Kieren is a new member to BiciSport in 2020.

Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre ITT @ 26 Sept - Randolph Baral set a very good time and improved on his July effort notwithstanding the adverse winds

Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre ITT @ 26 Sept - Mike Lawson (Anytime Fitness) nice and aero at Penrith Lakes

Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre ITT @ 26 Sept - Peter Verhoeven (Anytime Fitness) on a good ride

BiciSport Griffith @ 27 Sept - Frank Signor (BiciSport) celebrates the upcoming Giro d’Italia in the iconic Molteni Giro Leaders jersey from the 1970’s.

AUSCYCLING & CYCLING NSW PRESENTATION on 28 SEPTEMBER

• There is a video conference to be held by all NSW Clubs and the CyclingNSW Board on Monday 28 September to discuss the go forward on the AusCycling introduction

• BiciSport will convey the outcomes to its members via this website, email & BiciSport Facebook as soon as possible after the meeting.

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• No Brakes Racing @ DGV @ 25 Sept - Series # 5 with Davide van der Browne who took 3rd in the Scratch Race, 1st in the Keirin, 4th in the Motorpace & 5th in the Points Race.

• Penrith Lakes Individual Time Trial @ 26 Sept - Randolph Baral, Kieren Roche, Peter Verhoeven, Mike Lawson flew the BiciSport flag. Results to come.

• Lansdowne Park @ 27 Sept - David Cooper rode C grade on a Colissi Steel bike and got in a 4 man break which was eventually caught by the peloton.

• West Head Road Race @ 27 Sept - a strong BiciSport contingent with Eric Dole, Ian Cocks, Alex Gardiner, Brett Cocks, Dudley Hoskin, Matt Coy, Gio Pilu, Conor Tarlington, Eddy Ahumada, Mike Lawson, David Munro, Jeremy Hopson, Tom Green, Jordan Reizes & Rolly Delaytz.

NSW MASTERS ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS

• 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). The date is 9-11 October.

RACE SEEKER THIS WEEK

• 4 Oct

  • BiciSport TTT training (Terrey Hills)

  • Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)

• 5 Oct (Mon)

  • Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters)

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 29 Sept & 1 Oct - 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

• 30 Sept - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 1 Oct - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 3 Oct - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

The Giro starts 3 October and includes Peter Sagan

RACE EXECUTIONER UPDATE - LATEST LISTING

• Latest (new) cancellation is the Grafton to Inverell Classic on 14 November

• Recent event cancellations include -

  • Oct 5 - Gears & Beers Cyclosportive (Wagga)

  • Oct 8-9 - Tour of Gippsland (NRS)

  • Oct 10 - World Masters Track Championships (Manchester, UK)

  • Oct 11 - Around the Bay in a Day (Melbourne, Vic)

  • Oct 11 - Spring Cycle (Sydney, NSW)

  • Oct 16 - Womens High Country Challenge (Bright, Vic)

  • Oct 18 - Bowral Classic (Southern Highlands, NSW)

  • Oct 25 - Fitzs Challenge Cyclosportive (Canberra, ACT)

  • Oct 25 - Ride Daylesford (Regional Vic)

  • Nov 1 - MS Gong Ride (NSW)

  • Nov 8 - Mt Baw Baw Classic (Warragul, Vic)

  • Nov 8 - Amy Gillett Gran Fondo (Lorne, Vic)

  • Nov 14 - Grafton to Inverell Classic (NSW)

  • Nov 15 - Bass Coast Classic (Inverloch, Vic)

  • Nov 21 - Giro Della Donna (Warburton, Vic)

  • Nov 28 - Ride Around the River Cyclosportive (Nambucca & Macksville)

  • Nov 28 - L’Etape (Nowra)

  • Nov 28 - Great Victorian Bike Ride (Vic)

  • Dec 3-5 - Tour of Bright (Vic)

    • Dec 3-5 - National Masters Road Championships (venue - tbc) watch this space

    • Dec 9-13 - Tour of Tasmania - watch this space

    • Dec 11 - BiciSport Christmas Party Waterloo - watch this space

    • Jan 1-3 - Melbourne Bay Criterium Series (Vic) - watch this space

    • Jan 6-10 - Cycling Australia Road Championships (Ballarat) - watch this space

    • Jan 14-17 - Tour DownUnder (Women) - watch this space

    • Jan 19-24 - Tour DownUnder (Men) - watch this space

    • Jan 29-30 - Cadel Evans Classic (Vic) - watch this space

  • Feb 3-7 - Herald Sun Tour (Vic)

Brooklyn # 1 - Giancarlo Bellini at the 1977 Tour de France

Brooklyn # 1.1 - Italian & classy with an ever lasting iconic cycling jersey. Sponsorship was originally by Dreher (Beer) from 1970-72 then from 1973-77 it was Brooklyn Chewing Gum, frames by Gios Torino in that classic deep blue, groupsets were Campagnolo

Brooklyn # 2 - numerous head liners of note but none better than Roger De Vlaeminck who won 22 Giro stages, 3 Milan San Remo, 4 Paris Roubaix, 1 Tour of Flanders, 2 Tour of Lombardy, 1 Leige B Leige.

Lets not forget the outstanding Patrick Sercu (1974 Tour de France Green jersey) and 6 Day Track star. Ronny De Witte, Marcello Osler & Johan De Muynck (won the Giro)

Brooklyn # 3 - Paris Roubaix 1976 and enough talent in this picture to fill every cycling museum on the planet … L to R … Eddy Merckx (1975 World Champion), Walter Godefroot (obscured in Red Flandria), the great Freddy Maertens (Red Flandria) and Roger De Vlaeminck.

Brooklyn # 4 - Roger De Vlaeminck won three Milan San Remo Classics

Brooklyn # 5 - Johan De Muynck took victory in the Giro on the iconic dark blue Gios Torino frameset … you know where you are with chrome !! on the front forks.

Brooklyn # 5 - Mr Paris Roubaix was four time winner Roger De Vlaeminck. Freddy Maertens (World Champion) is second wheel

Brooklyn # 5.1 - Eddy Merckx & Roger De Vlaeminck at the Giro

Brooklyn @ 5.2 - the Gios Torino blue is now a cycling classic, loaded with chrome forks & Campagnolo groupset. Take a look at the two climbs in the background on both sides of the valley !

Brooklyn Chewing Gum # 6 - the 1975 team presentation

News Shorts - 21 September

BiciSport Griffith @ 20 Sept - no better way to celebrate Peter Budd’s 60th birthday than to ride the 120k from Griffith to Leeton & return. Well done Peter (second left) and happy 60th

L to R … Albert, Peter, Melissa, Michael & Frank at the Budd Service Corse

Singleton recce ride @ 18 Sept - Before the start with Ross (left) of Shearers Farm. Conditions were overcast & chilly. L to R … Ross, Dudley (rear), then Mike, Eric, Ian, Randolph & John

Singleton recce ride @ 18 Sept - The BiciSport team Subaru just celebrated its 300,000k birthday at Singleton. RVV 069 celebrates the Ronde Van Vlaanderen and the 1969 victory by Eddy Merckx

Singleton recce ride @ 18 Sept - Randolph Baral completed a steady warm up ride on the Individual Time Trial course then returned for a second attempt but this time in race simulation mode

Singleton recce ride @ 18 Sept - Randolph Baral on the Hunter River climb just 6k from the start

Singleton recce ride @ 18 Sept - Randolph Baral with 15k completed and just 5k to go

Singleton recce ride on 18 Sept - after two laps completed of the Individual Time Trial course the day finished with a 30k loop of the road circuit

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• No Brakes Racing @ DGV @ 11 Sept - Series # 4 and Davide van der Browne was 1st in the Scratch Race, 5th in the Snowball, 1st in the One Lap Screamer, 2nd in the Belgian Winners race.

NSW MASTERS ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS

• 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). The date is 9-11 October.

RACE SEEKER THIS WEEK

• 25 Sept

  • No Brakes Racing (Dunc Gray Velodrome) from 7pm

• 26 Sept

  • Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre Individual Time Trial (Penrith CC)

• 27 Sept

  • Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)

  • West Head Road Race (Manly CC)

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 22 & 24 Sept - 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

• 23 Sept - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 24 Sept - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 26 Sept - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Centennial Park Ride @ 17 Sept - the featured bike this week is a delightful steel GEFSCO with equally delightful chrome forks owned by the happy owner in Mike Shelley (Waratah, centre of picture)

RACE KEEPER OR RACE SEEKER OR RACE EXECUTIONER

• The relatively smaller club events have 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 an ongoing problem at present.

RACE EXECUTIONER UPDATE - LATEST LISTING

• Recent event cancellations include -

  • Oct 5 - Gears & Beers Cyclosportive (Wagga)

  • Oct 8-9 - Tour of Gippsland (NRS)

  • Oct 10 - World Masters Track Championships (Manchester, UK)

  • Oct 11 - Around the Bay in a Day (Melbourne, Vic)

  • Oct 11 - Spring Cycle (Sydney, NSW)

  • Oct 16 - Womens High Country Challenge (Bright, Vic)

  • Oct 18 - Bowral Classic (Southern Highlands, NSW)

  • Oct 25 - Fitzs Challenge Cyclosportive (Canberra, ACT)

  • Oct 25 - Ride Daylesford (Regional Vic)

  • Nov 1 - MS Gong Ride (NSW)

  • Nov 8 - Mt Baw Baw Classic (Warragul, Vic)

  • Nov 8 - Amy Gillett Gran Fondo (Lorne, Vic)

  • Nov 15 - Bass Coast Classic (Inverloch, Vic)

  • Nov 21 - Giro Della Donna (Warburton, Vic)

  • Nov 28 - Ride Around the River Cyclosportive (Nambucca & Macksville)

  • Nov 28 - L’Etape (Nowra)

  • Nov 28 - Great Victorian Bike Ride (Vic)

  • Dec 3-5 - Tour of Bright (Vic)

    • Dec 3-5 - National Masters Road Championships (venue - tbc) watch this space

    • Dec 9-13 - Tour of Tasmania - watch this space

    • Dec 11 - BiciSport Christmas Party Waterloo - watch this space

    • Jan 1-3 - Melbourne Bay Criterium Series (Vic) - watch this space

    • Jan 6-10 - Cycling Australia Road Championships (Ballarat) - watch this space

    • Jan 14-17 - Tour DownUnder (Women) - watch this space

    • Jan 19-24 - Tour DownUnder (Men) - watch this space

    • Jan 29-30 - Cadel Evans Classic (Vic) - watch this space

  • Feb 3-7 - Herald Sun Tour (Vic)

Tour de France 1955 and classic Bianchi & Fausto Coppi and where can you buy that Bianchi team car ! !

Bianchi # 1 - Fausto Coppi in the 1948 Tour of Lombardy climbing the Madonna de Ghisallo going past the IL Perlo Hotel (high above Lake Como). The Hotel was built in 1922.

The spectators don’t dress like that these days ! … note the small tree to the right of the IL Perlo Hotel

IL Perlo Hotel (above Bellagio on Lake Como) in 2019 and Mike Lawson (BiciSport Master) on the same stretch of the Ghisallo climb high above Lake Como … note the same tree to the right of the IL Perlo Hotel.

Bianchi # 2 - the same IL Perlo Hotel in 2019 as the Tour of Lombardy professional race climbs the Madonna de Ghisallo …. same tree same majestic view same Lake Como.

Bianchi # 3 - The Bianchi team started in 1899 ! !. with sponsorship periods from 1905-66, then 1973-84, then individual years in 1993 & 2003 and are now the frame supplier to Jumbo Visma professional team.

Sub sponsors were Pirelli (tyres), Campagnolo (of course), Faema (coffee) & Piaggio (motorbikes). Fausto Coppi was supreme as the team leader and one of the greatest cyclists of all time.

Bianchi # 4 - Felice Gimondi was a legend in the sport with numerous classic victories in the Giro, Tour de France, World Professional Road Championships, Italian National Road Championships, Milan San Remo & Baracchi Trophy

Bianchi # 5 - Classic Italian team picture with Marino Basso (World Road Champion) who had such a frantic sprint his nickname was Mr 10,000 Volts. together with Felice Gimondi (Italian Road Champion jersey) and Vittorio Adorni (Black jersey, ex World Road Champion)

Bianchi # 6 - A recent Felice Gimondi picture with the Bianchi team car taken at an Italian Gran Fondo. Felice recently passed away and will never be forgotten

News Shorts - 14 September

Waratah Masters @ ECR @ 13 Sept - C grade start line (L to R) - Eddy Ahumada, David Cooper & Ian Grainger (BiciSport Anytime Fitness)

Waratah Masters @ ECR @ 13 Sept - Rolly Delaytz (BiciSport Happy Wheels) on the A grade start line

Waratah Masters @ ECR @ 13 Sept - Eric Dole (looking serious) on the A2 grade start line

Waratah Masters @ ECR @ 13 Sept - Rolly Delaytz in the A grade peloton chasing the 4 man breakaway which held on to win by 30 seconds. Rolly went top 10 overall

Waratah Masters @ ECR @ 13 Sept - Eric Dole in A2 grade. Eric rode well and went top 10 overall.

Waratah Masters @ ECR @ 13 Sept - Peter Verhoeven in A2 grade rode well

Waratah Masters @ ECR @ 13 Sept - C grade with (L to R) in David Cooper & Ian Grainger

Waratah Masters @ ECR @ 13 Sept - C grade peloton with David Cooper & Eddy Ahumada

Waratah Masters @ ECR @ 13 Sept - Raoul Westbrook rode strongly in D grade

Waratah Masters @ ECR @ 13 Sept - BiciSport gruppetto at ECR with (L to R) … Eric, Raoul, Ian, Mike, Eddy, Peter & Rolly.

West Head ITT @ 13 Sept - on the start line with Matt Coy & Gio Pilu (BiciSport Pilu Racing)

West Head ITT @ 13 Sept - Tom Green (BiciSport Happy Wheels)

West Head ITT @ 13 Sept - Len Groen (BiciSport Anytime Fitness)

BiciSport - CycNSW derny restoration project @ 14 Sept - John Crouchley (BiciSport) and Sam Layzell (CycNSW) with the restored derny going back to the DGV. John put in endless hours on the restoration project that involved seven dernys (one was a write-off and could not be saved). Thanks John for the commitment to cycling history.

Bordeaux Paris Classic - A single derny & driver leads each team rider (right, Herman Van Springel). The “broader” the derny driver the better the slipstream. A great way to train & an even a better way to race. The traditional derny colour is red.

BICISPORT SINGLETON RECCE on 18 SEPT & TEAM TIME TRIAL TRAINING on 20 SEPT

• A small BiciSport peloton is going to Singleton on Friday 18 September to review the revised Masters Championships ITT circuit just 10k out of Singleton.

  • Meeting Point is Wise Monkey Cafe Berowra - 7.30am. Turn left off Pacific Highway & park in Berowra Parade. If your interested please contact 0417 403 244

• BiciSport Team Time Trial training is set for Sunday 20 September at Miramare Gardens (Sandstone Cafe) at Terrey Hills. Entry to the Miramare Gardens carpark is off Myoora Road Terrey Hills. Meeting time is 7.30am and departure for Booralie Rd loop (x3) is 8.00am.

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• Friday Night Track Racing @ DGV @ 11 Sept - Series # 3 and Davide van der Browne was 2nd in the Keirin, 5th in the Elimination, 3rd in the Points Race. .

• West Head @ 13 Sept - BiciSport starters in Matt Coy, Randolph Baral, Gio Pilu, Len Groen & Tom Green. Tom Green was 12th overall (first in Age category).

• Eastern Creek @ 13 Sept - Cracker entries in every grade and the usual slick organisation by Waratah Masters made for a great day of Masters racing at ECR. Rolly Delaytz & Eric Dole both went top 10 in their respective grades and Eddy Ahumada the big improver in C grade.

NSW MASTERS ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR SINGLETON & GO FOR BROKE

• 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).

  • The revised date is 9-11 October in Singleton

• 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

RACE KEEPER OR RACE SEEKER OR RACE EXECUTIONER

• The relatively smaller club events have 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 an ongoing problem at present.

RACE EXECUTIONER UPDATE - LATEST LISTING

• 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 State border restrictions that again can change at a moments notice.

• Recent cancellations include -

  • Oct 5 - Gears & Beers Cyclosportive (Wagga)

  • Oct 8-9 - Tour of Gippsland (NRS)

  • Oct 10 - World Masters Track Championships (Manchester, UK)

  • Oct 11 - Around the Bay in a Day (Melbourne, Vic)

  • Oct 11 - Spring Cycle (Sydney, NSW)

  • Oct 16 - Womens High Country Challenge (Bright, Vic)

  • Oct 18 - Bowral Classic (Southern Highlands, NSW)

  • Oct 25 - Fitzs Challenge Cyclosportive (Canberra, ACT)

  • Oct 25 - Ride Daylesford (Regional Vic)

  • Nov 1 - MS Gong Ride (NSW)

  • Nov 8 - Mt Baw Baw Classic (Warragul, Vic)

  • Nov 8 - Amy Gillett Gran Fondo (Lorne, Vic)

  • Nov 15 - Bass Coast Classic (Inverloch, Vic)

  • Nov 21 - Giro Della Donna (Warburton, Vic)

  • Nov 28 - Ride Around the River Cyclosportive (Nambucca & Macksville)

  • Nov 28 - L’Etape (Nowra)

  • Nov 28 - Great Victorian Bike Ride (Vic)

  • Dec 3-5 - Tour of Bright (Vic)

    • Dec 3-5 - National Masters Road Championships (venue - tbc) watch this space

    • Dec 9-13 - Tour of Tasmania - watch this space

    • Dec 11 - BiciSport Christmas Party Waterloo - watch this space

    • Jan 1-3 - Melbourne Bay Criterium Series (Vic) - watch this space

    • Jan 6-10 - Cycling Australia Road Championships (Ballarat) - watch this space

    • Jan 14-17 - Tour DownUnder (Women) - watch this space

    • Jan 19-24 - Tour DownUnder (Men) - watch this space

    • Jan 29-30 - Cadel Evans Classic (Vic) - watch this space

  • Feb 3-7 - Herald Sun Tour (Vic)

RACE SEEKER THIS WEEK

• 18 Sept

  • Recce - Singleton Masters Championships Individual Time Trial

    • Randolph Baral, Ian Grainger, Mike Lawson, Eric Dole, Dudley Hoskin, Mike O’Reilly - further information contact 0417 403 244

  • Friday Night Track Racing (Dunc Gray Velodrome) from 7pm

• 20 Sept

  • Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)

  • Mt Ku Ring Gai Criteriums (Northern Sydney)

  • BiciSport Team Time Trial training @ Terrey Hills (see Special Events page)

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 15 & 17 Sept - 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

• 16 Sept - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 17 Sept - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 19 Sept - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

• 20 Sept - BiciSport Team Time Trial training @ Terrey Hills (see Special Events page)

Ijsboerke # 1 - The Ijsboerke manager was none other than Patrick Lefevere (of Mapei & Quick Step fame). The team ran from 1973-82. Sponsorship was Ijsboerke (ice cream manufacturer), Capri Sonne (drinks), Warncke (communications). Bike sponsors were varied with Bertin (1973-74), Colner (75), Colnago (76-77), Gios (78), Koga Miyata (80-81), Merckx (82). Campagnolo did the components. Originally there was a large 31 riders in the team but this drifted down to a more manageable 21 riders in latter years.

Ijsboerke # 2 - Gios were frame sponsors in 1978

Ijsboerke # 3 - Walter Godefroot climbing the cobbled Kemmelberg in the 1977 Ghent Wevelgem Classic on a Colnago frameset

Ijsboerke # 4 - Nobody looks particularly happy to be there but an all time Belgian classic line up on the start line with L to R … DAF rider (unknown), Daniel Willems (Ijsboerke), Gerry Ver Linden (Ijsboerke - Belge National Champ), Roger De Vlaeminck (Gis Gelati), Walter Godefroot (Ijsboerke), Fons De Wolf (Lano), Herman Van Springel (Marc Superia), Claude Criqueilon (KAS) & Marc De Meyer (Flanders).

Ijsboerke # 5 - If there was ever a Seventies “super team” then this it and it laid the groundwork for what followed at then Mapei and onto the now of Quick Step thanks to managers Willy Jossart & Patrick Lefevere (now the king of team Quick Step).

The list of talent was seemingly unlimited in Gregor Braun, Ronald De Witte, Rudi Pevenge (of Jan Ulrich manager fame), Paul Haghedooren, Peter Winnen, Fons De Wolf, Frank Hoste, Bert Pronk, Gery Verlinden, Daniel Willems, Andre Dierckx, Roger Swerts, Herman Van Springel, Graeme Gilmore (Aussie), Frans Verbeek, Didi Thurau, and the late Dirk Wayenberg (pictured above). That is one serious bunch of talent.

News Shorts - 7 September

Parramatta Road Race @ Oakville @ 5 Sept - Eric Dole (BiciSport Happy Wheels)

Parramatta Road Race @ Oakville @ 5 Sept - Eric Dole (BiciSport Happy Wheels)

Parramatta Road Race @ Oakville @ 5 Sept - Eric Dole (BiciSport Happy Wheels) finished top 15 from 30 starters in B grade. The race was brutal from the gun, but the bunch stayed together despite a few breaks. Average speed for the 43k journey was 38kph.

Waratah Masters @ Lansdowne Park @ 6 Sept - Raoul Westbrook (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) took 2nd in D grade

Ghosts of BiciSport past surface on Facebook - Phil Dixon full gas at the Dunc Gray Velodrome. The BiciSport team was sponsored by Supreme Cycles Narrabeen & Hamill Press

Next Sunday 13 September BiciSport Masters return to both Eastern Creek Raceway & the West Head ITT

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• Friday Night Track Racing @ DGV @ 4 Sept - David Browne rode well in B grade and placed 2nd in the Scratch Race, !st in the Sprint, 3rd in the Motorpace, 8th in the Mystery race over 4 laps. Race entries increased further for the second round of the series.

• Parramatta Road Race @ Oakville @ 5 Sept - BiciSport starter Eric Dole went top 15 in B grade.

• Cronulla Tri Club ITT @ Kurnell @ 5 Sept - Randolph Baral took the win & completed the 16k course with an average speed of 42.5kph

• Lansdowne Park @ 6 Sept - Ian Grainger was 7th in C grade with Raoul Westbrook 2nd in D grade.

• Recovery Ward - Been a poor few weeks for rider injuries with Frank Signor (ribs), and now Jock Young (shoulder) plus 83 year old Noel Larose (ribs) after an off on the Homebush bike lanes near Parramatta River. Best wishes to Jock & Noel

NSW MASTERS ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR SINGLETON & GO FOR BROKE

• 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).

• The revised date is 9-11 October in Singleton

• 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

RACE KEEPER OR RACE SEEKER OR RACE EXECUTIONER

• The relatively smaller club events have 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 an ongoing problem at present.

RACE EXECUTIONER UPDATE - LATEST LISTING

• 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 State border restrictions that again can change at a moments notice.

• You know things are tough when the Herald Sun Tour is due February 2021 and cancels in August 2020.

• Recent cancellations include -

  • Sept 12-13 - Gunnedah Weekend (CycNSW)

  • Oct 5 - Gears & Beers Cyclosportive (Wagga)

  • Oct 8-9 - Tour of Gippsland (NRS)

  • Oct 10 - World Masters Track Championships (Manchester, UK)

  • Oct 11 - Around the Bay in a Day (Melbourne, Vic)

  • Oct 11 - Spring Cycle (Sydney, NSW)

  • Oct 16 - Womens High Country Challenge (Bright, Vic)

  • Oct 18 - Bowral Classic (Southern Highlands, NSW)

  • Oct 25 - Fitzs Challenge Cyclosportive (Canberra, ACT)

  • Oct 25 - Ride Daylesford (Regional Vic)

  • Nov 1 - MS Gong Ride (NSW)

  • Nov 8 - Mt Baw Baw Classic (Warragul, Vic)

  • Nov 8 - Amy Gillett Gran Fondo (Lorne, Vic)

  • Nov 15 - Bass Coast Classic (Inverloch, Vic)

  • Nov 21 - Giro Della Donna (Warburton, Vic)

  • Nov 28 - Ride Around the River Cyclosportive (Nambucca & Macksville)

  • Nov 28 - L’Etape (Nowra)

  • Nov 28 - Great Victorian Bike Ride (Vic)

  • Dec 3-5 - Tour of Bright (Vic)

    • Dec 3-5 - National Masters Road Championships (venue - tbc) watch this space

    • Dec 9-13 - Tour of Tasmania - watch this space

    • Dec 11 - BiciSport Christmas Party Waterloo - watch this space

    • Jan 1-3 - Melbourne Bay Criterium Series (Vic) - watch this space

    • Jan 6-10 - Cycling Australia Road Championships (Ballarat) - watch this space

    • Jan 14-17 - Tour DownUnder (Women) - watch this space

    • Jan 19-24 - Tour DownUnder (Men) - watch this space

    • Jan 29-30 - Cadel Evans Classic (Vic) - watch this space

  • Feb 3-7 - Herald Sun Tour (Vic)

RACE SEEKER THIS WEEK

• 11 Sept

  • Friday Night Track Racing (Dunc Gray Velodrome) from 7pm

• 13 Sept

  • Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters), West Head ITT (Manly CC)

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 7 & 10 Sept - 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

• 9 Sept - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 10 Sept - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 12 Sept - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Mr Mann Grundig himself in Herman Van Springel - 163 professional victories over a stellar career including podium spots in all three Grand Tours, a Silver medal at the World Road Championship, Belgian National Road Champion (riding for Molteni), and a winner of the Tour of Lombardy.

Mann Grundig # 1 - A Belgian super team loaded with outstanding Flemish talent. Be it Herman Van Springel, Daniel Van Ryckghem, Jos Huysmanns, Jan Boonen (father of Tom), Willy In’ Ven or Georges Pintens. Primarily a yellow team kit but they went into pink at the Tour de France.

Sponsors were Doctor Mann (being a medicine producer ! ! …. yes, a drug company sponsoring a cycling team) and Grundig (electrical goods in stereo’s or televisions). Groupsets were Campagnolo.

Mann Grundig # 2 - a classic black & white picture with enough talent to fill several cycling museums with Roger Pingeon (Peugeot), Raymond Pouldor (Mercer), Herman Van Springel (Mann Grundig), Eddy Merckx (Faema, wearing Yellow Jersey at the 1969 Tour de France) and Felice Gimondi (Salvarini).

Mann Grundig # 3 - Herman Van Springel won the 1970 Bordeaux Paris Classic over 600k, where the last 300k was behind the Mann Grundig team derny.

Mann Grundig # 4 - Herman Van Springel won the 1968 Tour of Lombardy

Mann Grundig # 5 - Tour of Flanders (Ronde Van Vlaanderen) from 1962 with right to left - Rik Van Looy (World Champion) took the victory, Norbert Kerckhove (Mann Grundig) took 3rd with Tom Simpson (Leroux) 5th

Mann Grundig # 6 - Mann Grundig at the 1969 Tour de France

News Shorts - 31 August

Friday Night Track Racing @ DGV @ 28 Aug - David Browne (BiciSport Happy Wheels)

Miramare Gardens Terrey Hills @ Sandstone Cafe @ 29 Aug - L to R .. Steve, Karl, Ian, Paul, Marty, Nigel & Eric. Coffee is every Saturday @ Sandstone Cafe from 9.30am. All welcome.

Mona Vale Road near Terrey Hills @ 29 Aug - Steve & Marty (photo courtesy of Eric)

The Tour de France has started and welcome to classic sleep deprivation for the next 3 weeks

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• Friday Night Track Racing @ DGV @ 28 Aug - FNTR has returned with a new promoter and its great to see DGV winter track racing back until early October. David Browne rode well in B grade and placed in nearly every event. Fields were excellent for the first night of the six week series.

• Waratah Masters @ Lansdowne @ 30 Aug - Raoul Westbrook was 4th in D grade from 16 starters. Nice job.

• Recovery Ward - Been a poor few weeks for rider injuries with Frank Signor (ribs), and now Jock Young (shoulder) plus 83 year old Noel Larose (ribs) after an off on the Homebush bike lanes near Parramatta River. Best wishes to Jock & Noel

NSW MASTERS ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR SINGLETON & GO FOR BROKE

• 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).

• The revised date is 9-11 October in Singleton

• 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

RACE KEEPER or RACE SEEKER or RACE EXECUTIONER

• The relatively smaller club events have 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 an ongoing problem at present.

RACE EXECUTIONER UPDATE - LATEST LISTING

• 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 State border restrictions that again can change at a moments notice.

• You know things are tough when the Herald Sun Tour is due February 2021 and cancels in August 2020.

• Recent cancellations include -

  • Sept 12 - Gunnedah Weekend (CycNSW)

  • Oct 5 - Gears & Beers Cyclosportive (Wagga)

  • Oct 8-9 - Tour of Gippsland (NRS)

  • Oct 10 - World Masters Track Championships (Manchester, UK)

  • Oct 11 - Around the Bay in a Day (Melbourne, Vic)

  • Oct 11 - Spring Cycle (Sydney, NSW)

  • Oct 16 - Womens High Country Challenge (Bright, Vic)

  • Oct 18 - Bowral Classic (Southern Highlands, NSW)

  • Oct 25 - Fitzs Challenge Cyclosportive (Canberra, ACT)

  • Oct 25 - Ride Daylesford (Regional Vic)

  • Nov 1 - MS Gong Ride (NSW)

  • Nov 8 - Mt Baw Baw Classic (Warragul, Vic)

  • Nov 8 - Amy Gillett Gran Fondo (Lorne, Vic)

  • Nov 15 - Bass Coast Classic (Inverloch, Vic)

  • Nov 21 - Giro Della Donna (Warburton, Vic)

  • Nov 28 - Ride Around the River Cyclosportive (Nambucca & Macksville)

  • Nov 28 - L’Etape (Nowra)

  • Nov 28 - Great Victorian Bike Ride (Vic)

  • Dec 3-5 - Tour of Bright (Vic)

    • Dec 3-5 - National Masters Road Championships (venue - tbc) watch this space

    • Dec 9-13 - Tour of Tasmania - watch this space

    • Jan 1-3 - Melbourne Bay Criterium Series (Vic) - watch this space

    • Jan 6-10 - Cycling Australia Road Championships (Ballarat) - watch this space

    • Jan 14-17 - Tour DownUnder (Women) - watch this space

    • Jan 19-24 - Tour DownUnder (Men) - watch this space

    • Jan 29-30 - Cadel Evans Classic (Vic) - watch this space

  • Feb 3-7 - Herald Sun Tour (Vic)

RACE SEEKER THIS WEEK

• 4 Sept

  • Friday Night Track Racing (Dunc Gray Velodrome) from 7pm

• 5 Sept

  • Oakville Road Race (Penrith CC)

• 6 Sept

  • Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 1 & 3 Sept - 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

• 2 Sept - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 3 Sept - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 5 Sept - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Novy Dubble Bubble # 1 - If Italian teams can be sponsored by Brooklyn Chewing Gum then its no stretch to be supported by America’s Original Bubble Gum

Novy Dubble Bubble # 2 - its looks cold & brisk for Willy Van Nest (Flandria), Eddy Cael (NDB) and Christian Callens (NDB)

Novy Dubble Bubble # 3 - a classic & simple NDB jersey that gets the job done

Novy Dubble Bubble # 4 - Christian Callens in the NDB team kit. The frameset was Novy loaded with a totally obscure groupset

Novy Dubble Bubble # 4.1 - Paris Tours Classic 1972 with Noel Van Tyghem (NDB) leading

Novy Dubble Bubble # 5 - Framsets were Belgian in Novy, team cars were Peugeot, with additional sponsorship by Romy Pils (Belgian beer) and Total (petrol) framed by the Belgian coastline. How they ever got the team car on & off the Belgian sand remains a mystery

News Shorts - 24 August

BiciSport Team Time Trial Training @ Miramare Gardens @ 23 Aug - L to R … Dom, Eric, Tom, Laurent, Eddy, Rolly, Len, Conor, Randolph, Peter, Matt, Mike (obscured), Dudley, Jordan & Graham

BiciSport Team Time Trial Training @ Terrey Hills @ 23 Aug - Rolly Delaytz leads Laurent Doyon

BiciSport Team Time Training @ Terrey Hills @ 23 Aug - Laurent Doyon leads Tom Green

BiciSport Team Time Trial Training @ Terrey Hills @ 23 Aug - Len Groen looking strong

WEST HEAD ROAD RACE CANCELLED

• Due to bushfire back burning the West Head RR for Sunday 30 August is cancelled

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• BiciSport Terrey Hills TTT training @ 23 Aug - Five BiciSport teams lined up for a chilly start to TTT training from Miramare Gardens at Terrey Hills. The next team training session is 20 September. Thank you to Miramare Gardens for a great venue.

• Recovery Ward - Been a poor few weeks for rider injuries with Frank Signor (ribs), and now Jock Young (shoulder) plus 83 year old Noel Larose (ribs) after an off on the Homebush bike lanes near Parramatta River. Best wishes to Jock & Noel

NSW MASTERS ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR SINGLETON & GO FOR BROKE

• 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).

• The revised date is 9-11 October in Singleton

• 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

RACE KEEPER VERSUS RACE SEEKER VERSUS RACE EXECUTIONER

• 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.

RACE EXECUTIONER UPDATE - LATEST LISTING

• 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.

• You know things are tough when the Herald Sun Tour is due February 21 and cancels in August 20.

• Recent cancellations include -

  • Aug 29 - Cootamundra Open.

  • Sept 12 - Gunnedah Weekend (CycNSW)

  • Oct 5 - Gears & Beers Cyclosportive (Wagga)

  • Oct 8-9 - Tour of Gippsland (NRS)

  • Oct 10 - World Masters Track Championships (Manchester, UK)

  • Oct 11 - Around the Bay in a Day (Melbourne, Vic)

    • Oct 11 - Spring Cycle (NSW) - decision pending

  • Oct 16 - Womens High Country Challenge (Bright, Vic)

  • Oct 18 - Bowral Classic (NSW)

  • Oct 25 - Fitzs Challenge Cyclosportive (Canberra, ACT)

  • Oct 25 - Ride Daylesford (Regional Vic)

  • Nov 1 - MS Gong Ride (NSW)

  • Nov 8 - Mt Baw Baw Classic (Warragul, Vic)

    • Nov 8 - Amy Gillett Gran Fondo (Vic) - decision pending Aug 31

  • Nov 15 - Bass Coast Classic (Inverloch, Vic)

  • Nov 21 - Giro Della Donna (Warburton, Vic)

  • Nov 28 - L’Etape (Nowra)

    • Nov 28 - Great Victorian Bike Ride (Vic) - decision pending

  • Dec 3-5 - Tour of Bright (Vic)

  • Feb 3-7 - Herald Sun Tour (Vic)

RACE SEEKER THIS WEEK

• 29 Aug

  • Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre Criterium (Penrith CC)

• 30 Aug

  • Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 25 & 27 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

• 26 Aug - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 27 Aug - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 29 Aug - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Hitachi # 1 - Claude Criquielon as World Road Champion was the headline act in a Hitachi team loaded with super talent - be it a youthful Sean Kelly, strong man Dirk de Wolf, Rudy Dhaenens (a future World Road Champion), Flemish hard man Rudy Matthijs, Rudy Rogiers, Jean Marie Wampers & sprinter Etienne De Wilde.

A truly tough & talented Classics team.

Hitachi # 2 - 1987 Tour of Flanders and Claude C headed for another Classic victory. Groupsets were Mavic, framesets were Italian Rossin being the R on the headset.

Not strictly in the Hitachi sponsorship era but at least its in the same team …. who can resist Claude C in the World Champions jersey

Hitachi # 3 - As the name states on the car Claude wins the 1987 Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders)

Hitachi # 4 - Sponsorship started with Belgian Splendor bikes way back in 1975, then it varied through Admiral (televisions), Europ Decor (furniture), Hitachi (from 1985 until 1989), even Bosal (being car mufflers !!). Framesets switched from Splendor (originally), to the Italian built Rossin, then finally Eddy Merckx. Groupsets seemed be whatever they could beg, borrow or steal … but generally a blend of Campagnolo or Mavic. Best team result was winning the Team Classification at the 1980 Tour of Spain.

Hitachi # 5 - Hitachi at the 1987 Tour de France

News Shorts - 17 August

West Head Individual Time Trial @ 16 Aug - Len Groen on a fine ride along the West Head Road

West Head Individual Time Trial @ 16 Aug - Mike Lawson (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) & Tom Green (BiciSport Happy Wheels).

Waratah Masters @ Lansdowne Park @ 16 Aug - Raoul Westbrook took 2nd in D grade with a nice win by Terry Freshwater

BiciSport Team Time Trial training has a new home from Sunday 23 August … with a start from Miramare Gardens (off Myoora Rd Terrey Hills). Meet up time is 7.30am and depart at 8.00am.

BICISPORT TEAM TIME TRIAL TRAINING starts SUNDAY 23 AUGUST at MIRAMARE GARDENS TERREY HILLS

• The BiciSport Teams Time Trial sessions commence on Sunday 23 August at Terrey Hills (meeting time is 7.30am at Miramare Gardens off Myoora Rd Terrey Hills, then depart at 8.00am)

• Wet weather training cancellation will be advised on this webpage at 6.00am on the Sunday

• There will be four sessions at Terrey Hills and two sessions at either the West Head Individual Time Trial or Eastern Creek Raceway Criteriums in the lead up to the NSW TTT Championships in November.

• The six dates are -

  • Sun 23 August - Miramare Gardens Terrey Hills

  • Sun 6 September - Miramare Gardens Terrey Hills

  • Sun 13 September - West Head Individual ITT (Manly CC) or Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah CC)

  • Sun 4 & 25 October - Miramare Gardens Terrey Hills

  • Sun 1 Nov - West Head Individual ITT (Manly CC) or Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah CC)

• These six dates have been blended throughout various club racing events at Waratah Masters and West Head. BiciSport riders are firstly encouraged to come to the four Terrey Hills sessions but equally encouraged to attend the excellent club racing events now on offer. All of these training dates and club racing opportunities are listed in the Special Events section of this website.

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• West Head Individual Time Trial @ 16 Aug - A solid entry list greeted the starters gun. Tom Green (13th @ 1hr15min30secs) did two laps with a one lap efforts for Matt Coy (22nd @ 38min16secs), Gio Pilu (26th @ 39min44secs), Len Groen (31st @ 41min22secs), Mike Lawson (34th @ 45min08secs)

• Waratah Masters @ Lansdowne @ 16 Aug - Ian Grainger was a peloton finish in C grade & Raoul Westbrook finished 2nd in D grade. Terry Freshwater (regular Thursday starter on the Spruce Goose ride) won D grade.

NSW MASTERS ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR SINGLETON & GO FOR BROKE

• 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).

• The Championships have been moved to 8, 9, 10 October at Singleton

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

RACE KEEPER versus RACE SEEKER versus RACE EXECUTIONER

• 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.

RACE EXECUTIONER UPDATE - BOWRAL CLASSIC CANCELLED

• 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 22 - BiciSport Tour de France Dinner (with CJ Sutton)

  • Aug 22-23 - NSW Elite Criterium Champs (Heffron Park)

  • Aug 29 - Cootamundra Open.

  • Sept 12 - Gunnedah Weekend (CycNSW)

  • Oct 5 - Gears & Beers Cyclosportive (Wagga)

  • Oct 8-9 - Tour of Gippsland (NRS)

    Oct 10 - World Masters Track Championships (Manchester, UK)

  • Oct 11 - Around the Bay in a Day (Melbourne, Vic)

    • Oct 11 - Spring Cycle (NSW) - decision pending

  • Oct 16 - Womens High Country Challenge (Bright, Vic)

  • Oct 18 - Bowral Classic (NSW)

  • Oct 25 - Fitzs Challenge Cyclosportive (Canberra, ACT)

  • Oct 25 - Ride Daylesford (Regional Vic)

  • Nov 1 - MS Gong Ride (NSW)

  • Nov 8 - Mt Baw Baw Classic (Warragul, Vic)

    • Nov 8 - Amy Gillett Gran Fondo (Vic) - decision pending Aug 31

  • Nov 15 - Bass Coast Classic (Inverloch, Vic)

  • Nov 28 - L’Etape (Nowra)

    • Nov 28 - Great Victorian Bike Ride (Vic) - decision pending

  • Dec 3-5 - Tour of Bright (Vic)

Sandstone Cafe Terrey Hills @ 15 Aug - A nice sized BiciSport peloton with L to R … John, Karl, Mike, Marty, Paul, Ken, Nigel, Ian, Sean & Raoul

NSW Cyclo Cross Championships @ 23 Aug @ Central Coast - Mike Lawson (BiciSport) is the BiciSport entry

RACE SEEKER THIS WEEK

• 22 Aug

  • Oakville Road Race (Parramatta CC)

• 23 Aug

  • Waratah Masters Club Championships (note - no visitors), NSW Cyclocross State Championships (Central Coast CC) - BiciSport starter Mike Lawson

CYCNSW SINGLETON TEAM TIME TRIAL -

TRAINING FROM 23 AUGUST & TTT RACE DATE OF 7 NOVEMBER

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

BICISPORT NOW ON FACEBOOK AT BICISPORT.SYDNEY

This is a new (closed) Facebook site (your membership needs to be approved) and can be found at -

• Bicisport.Sydney

• Email is - Bicisport.Sydney @gmail.com

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 18 & 20 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

• 19 Aug - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 20 Aug - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 22 Aug - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Palmans # 1 - Mario De Clerq was the reigning World Cyclo Cross Champion

Pamans # 2 - Another Belgian professional team from 1993-2010. Palmans was an international road transport company & Collstrop made wooden products. An outstanding Flemish based team with several notables in Geert Omloop (Belgian Champ 2003), Jan Bogeart, Nico Eeckhout, Roger Hammond, Peter Van Petegem (won Paris Roubaix) and Magnus Backstedt (also won Paris Roubaix).

Palmans # 3 - a classic Flemish cyclist in Staf Scheirlinckx

Palmans # 4 - Geert Omloop (2003 Belgian National Road Champion)

Palmans # 5 - Geert Omloop takes a great victory at the Belgian National Road Championship

News Shorts - 10 August

Waratah Masters @ 9 Aug - L to R … Rolly Delaytz, Tom Green, Peter Verhoeven, Eddy Ahumada & Eric Dole. Waratahs hosted big fields in each grade for an excellent days racing.

Waratah Masters @ 9 Aug - Rolly Delaytz (BiciSport Happy Wheels) takes second in A grade

Waratah Masters @ 9 Aug - 100 metres from the Waratah Masters A grade finish

Waratahs Masters @ 9 Aug - Rolly on the Waratah Masters A grade podium

Waratah Masters @ 9 Aug - Peter Verhoeven (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) rode well in A2 grade

Waratah Masters @ 9 Aug - Tom Green leads Eric Dole in Masters A2 grade

Waratah Masters @ 9 Aug - Eddy Ahumada in the Masters C grade peloton

BiciSport Happy Wheels @ 6 Aug - The Thursday Happy Wheels training ride ride departs Happy Wheels Waterloo @ 6.00am and then heads for La Perouse and return led by Computa Campbell. All welcome

Stelvio Pass Italy @ 4 Aug - its August and the Stelvio Pass still looks like this !. Picture courtesy of Frank Signor (BiciSport Griffith) …. all that is missing is a few speed bumps !

McCarrs Creek Road Speed Bumps @ 8 Aug - 20 speed bumps in just 3k on the only bike safe road into the National Park from a northern approach …. If that bit of traffic management sounds silly … it is

MCCARRS CREEK ROAD SPEED BUMPS ALERT

• 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.

NSW MASTERS ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR SINGLETON AND GO FOR BROKE

• 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

RACE KEEPER VERSUS RACE SEEKER VERSUS RACE EXECUTIONER

• 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.

RACE EXECUTIONER UPDATE - THE LIST GROWS …

• 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)

COVID 19 & NORTHSIDE TRAFFIC HOTSPOTS - TRAFFIC VOLUMES UP 20%

• 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

MANLY BEACHFRONT ROAD NOW 30 KPH SPEED LIMITED

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

RACE SEEKER THIS WEEK

• 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)

CYCNSW SINGLETON TEAM TIME TRIAL -

TRAINING FROM 23 AUGUST & TTT RACE DATE OF 7 NOVEMBER

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

BICISPORT NEWSLETTERS

• 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

BICISPORT NOW ON FACEBOOK AT BICISPORT.SYDNEY

This is a new (closed) Facebook site (your membership needs to be approved) and can be found at -

• Bicisport.Sydney

• Email is - Bicisport.Sydney @gmail.com

BICISPORT SPECIAL EVENTS NEWS

Special Events have been added & updated on the BiciSport website which includes -

• Revised 2020 into 2021 BiciSport Special Events now updated

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 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

Mario Cipolini # 1 - rode for the Acqua & Sapone professional team based in Italy. The team competed from 2004-2012. The team kit was the non too subtle zebra style. Framsets were Specialised loaded with Shimano components

Mario Cipolini # 2 - Super Mario wins the Milan San Remo Classic

Mario Cipolini # 3 - not sure what is more noticeable … the Acqua & Sapone team car or Super Mario

News Shorts - 3 August

Waratah Masters host racing at Eastern Creek from Sunday 9 August …. hope to see you there

BiciSport Griffith @ 31 July - Peter Budd has a delighfully appointed service corse/manshed/garage with all manner of personal memorabilia that includes clothing, medals, race numbers, trophies, posters, then a classy bike wall of Fuji, Specialised, Ciocc, Giant, Morgan x 3, a GT, finally a Cannondale and a very nice tandem.

BiciSport Griffith @ 1 Aug - Saturday ride completed in pretty chilly conditions, then a quick coffee at the Budd Service Corse.

L to R … Albert Ravanello, Melissa Budd, Roger Thompson Seagrave, Peter Budd, Michael Taylor & Frank Signor. Frank is recovering well from his recent training ride crash.

MCCARRS CREEK ROAD SPEED BUMPS ALERT

• Beware the 19 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 will continue this week with relevant authorities regarding a considered solution.

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• Recovery Ward @ 1 Aug - Good to report that Frank Signor & Tony Deligigante are both recovering well from the training ride mishap in Griffith

EASTERN CREEK RACEWAY RECOMMENCES ON 9 AUGUST

• Waratah Masters relaunch club level events at Eastern Creek Raceway on Sunday 9 August. Start time is a brisk 7.00am and all BiciSport Masters are encouraged to make it a date. BiciSport entries can be made on the day and a BiciSport support team will be in attendance on 9 August.

RACE KEEPER VERSUS RACE SEEKER VERSUS RACE EXECUTIONER

• 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.

RACE EXECUTIONER UPDATE

• Note that some of the bigger events have recently cancelled, including -

  • 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 25 - Fitzs Challenge Cyclosportive (Canberra, ACT)

  • Oct 25 - Ride Daylesford (Vic)

  • Nov 8 - Mt Baw Baw Classic (Warragul, Vic)

  • Dec 3-5 - Tour of Bright (Vic)

COVID 19 & NORTHSIDE TRAFFIC HOTSPOTS - TRAFFIC VOLUMES UP 20%

• 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

• Centennial Park remains very busy with car traffic volumes have increased 20% courtesy of Covid 19

MANLY BEACHFRONT ROAD NOW 30 KPH SPEED LIMITED

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

RACE SEEKER THIS WEEK

• 8 Aug

  • Oakville Road Race (Parramatta CC), Canyonleigh Road Race (Southern Highlands),

  • Heffron Park (RBCC), Kurri Kurri Criteriums (Newcastle CC)

• 9 Aug - Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters)

CYCNSW SINGLETON TEAM TIME TRIAL -

TRAINING FROM 23 AUGUST & RACE DATE OF 7 NOVEMBER

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

BICISPORT NEWSLETTERS

• 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

BICISPORT NOW ON FACEBOOK AT BICISPORT.SYDNEY

This is a new (closed) Facebook site (your membership needs to be approved) and can be found at -

• Bicisport.Sydney

• Email is - Bicisport.Sydney @gmail.com

BICISPORT SPECIAL EVENTS NEWS

Special Events have been added & updated on the BiciSport website which includes -

• Eastern Creek Raceway (Masters)

  • Several weekends to choose from with the next ECR Masters booked for 9 August

• Revised 2020 into 2021 BiciSport Special Events now updated

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 4 & 6 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

• 5 Aug - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 6 Aug - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Chairmans Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 8 Aug - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Kwantum Hallen is a furniture chain store & Decosol installed window curtains and blinds

Kwantum Hallen-Decosol @ 1984 # 2 - Adrie Van De Poel (above) was just one of numerous outstanding cyclists to pass through this team since 1984, be it under sponsorship from Kwantum, Superconfex, Buckler, Word Perfect, Novell, Rabobank, Belkin, Lotto NL or Jumbo Visma.

The team originally formed after a split from TI Raleigh in late 1983 … half the team then went to the Panasonic Team (led by Peter Post) and the other half formed under Jan Raas at Kwantum. Peter Post & Jan Raas most definitely did not get on and the rivalry was bitter as it was fierce.

Framesets were Colnago, then Giant then finally Bianchi.

Kwantum Hallen-Decosol @ 1984 # 1 - Joop Zoetmelk & Hennie Kuiper … both won a World Road Championship, plus numerous Classics not to mention a Tour de France win by Joop.

News Shorts - 27 July

European Classics kick off next weekend with Strade Bianche in Siena, Italy

Genuine Italian style at Strade Bianchi with a single speed Bianchi, aluminium bidon on the bars, and nothing beats a set of Plus 4 knicks & long socks in matching sky blue

RACE KEEPER VERSUS RACE SEEKER

• 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 some of the bigger events have recently cancelled, including -

  • 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)

Centennial Park Ride @ 23 July - L to R with Ian Grainger, Mike O’Reilly, Peter Stupka, Ivan Sher, Terry Freshwater & John Crouchley.

The ride is held every Thursday starting at the Spruce Goose Cafe @ 10.30am. All welcome.

COVID 19 & NORTHSIDE TRAFFIC HOTSPOTS - TRAFFIC VOLUMES UP 20%

• 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

• Centennial Park remains very busy with car traffic volumes have increased 20% courtesy of Covid 19

MANLY BEACHFRONT ROAD NOW 30 KPH SPEED LIMITED

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

RACE SEEKER THIS WEEK

• 1 Aug - Wombeyan Caves Road Race (Southern Highlands CC)

• 2 Aug - Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)

CYCNSW SINGLETON TEAM TIME TRIAL -

TRAINING FROM 23 AUGUST & RACE DATE OF 7 NOVEMBER

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

BICISPORT NEWSLETTERS

• 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

BICISPORT NOW ON FACEBOOK AT BICISPORT.SYDNEY

This is a new (closed) Facebook site (your membership needs to be approved) and can be found at -

• Bicisport.Sydney

• Email is - Bicisport.Sydney @gmail.com

BICISPORT SPECIAL EVENTS NEWS

Special Events have been added & updated on the BiciSport website which includes -

• Eastern Creek Raceway (Masters)

  • Several weekends to choose from with the next ECR Masters booked for 9 August

• Revised 2020 into 2021 BiciSport Special Events now updated

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 28 & 30 July - 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

• 29 July - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 30 July - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Chairmans Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 1 Aug - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Alfa Lum # 1 - the team was sponsored by the Italian aluminium manufacturer Alfa Lum from 1982 to 1990. Originally the team was Italian based with some excellent imports (including Australian Michael Wilson). Originally on Olmo framsets, then Legnano, then finally on to Colnago framesets in 1989-90. Campagnolo was the groupset of choice throughout.

In 1989 the team sourced riders from the Soviet Union and team Sports Director Primo Franchini (above) got the Soviet theme humming along. Not sure about a hidden Colnago behind a red curtain (??) and a single shoe (what was that all about ?? .. )

Alfa Lum # 2 - 1989 featured riders with names not particularly soft on the English tongue headed by the sprinter Giamolidin Abdoujapavov (aka the Tashkent Terror). Several riders (including Abdo, Tchmil, Konyshev) progressed to outstanding professional careers.

Alfa Lum # 3 - Barrachi Trophy 2 man time trial in 1989 on Colnago framsets loaded with Campagnolo groupsets

Alfa Lum # 4 - circa 1987 with a heavy reliance on a strong Italian core of exceptional professionals

Alfa Lum # 5 - 1989 saw the team virtually rebuilt around 15 riders from the Soviet Union. The team folded at the end of 1990 with several riders going on to exceptional careers with other professional teams

News Shorts - 20 July

Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre @ 18 July - Randolph Baral & Tom Green before the start

Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre @ 18 July - Randolph Baral approaching the start line

Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre @ 18 July - Randolph Baral launches off the Penrith start line

Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre @ 18 July - Tom & Sam Green enjoy the Penrith sunshine

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre on 18 July - A well organised individual time trial by Penrith Club around Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre was held in bright sunshine with little wind with a good sized field of 120 starters. Tom Green & Randolph Baral represented BiciSport in the 20k Masters ITT effort. From the 32 starters in Masters 4-6 category Randolph posted 28min 23secs for 4th, and Tom posted 28min57 secs for 5th.

• Mt Ku Ring Gai Criterium @ 19 July - Both Ian Cocks (Pilu Racing) and David Browne were on the Beaumont Rd start sheet

• Waratah Masters Lansdowne Park @ 19 July - Ian Grainger was 6th in C grade

• Recovery Ward - Speedy recovery to both Frank Signor & Tony Delgigante who had an “off” in Griffith on a training ride on 14 July. Frank cracked four ribs and both are recovering well albeit somewhat battered & sore

COVID 19 RACE CANCELLATIONS EVER PRESENT

• The smaller club events are quietly restarting (Heffron Park, Lansdowne Park, Eastern Creek, Penrith, Parramatta & West Head) but the larger promotions remain in the 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 some of the bigger events have recently cancelled, including -

  • 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)

COVID 19 & NORTHSIDE TRAFFIC HOTSPOTS - TRAFFIC VOLUMES UP 20%

• Caution still needs to be exercised on traditional cycling roads like McCarrs Creek Rd towards Church Point, then into Akuna Bay & West Head. Traffic volumes are much higher than normal

• Centennial Park remains very busy with car traffic volumes have increased 20% courtesy of Covid 19

MANLY BEACHFRONT ROAD NOW 30 KPH SPEED LIMITED

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

RACING THIS WEEK

• 25 July - Oakville Road Race (Parramatta CC), Bundanoon Road Race (Southern Highlands CC)

• 26 July - Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters), West Head Road Race (Manly CC)

SOME RACES NOT YET COVID APPROVED

• Note that each race organiser needs to have approved COVID procedures from each local Council before their race can proceed. So check on each club website to ensure that the club race has been COVID procedures have been approved.

CYCNSW SINGLETON TEAM TIME TRIAL -

TRAINING FROM 23 AUGUST & RACE DATE OF 7 NOVEMBER

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

BICISPORT NEWSLETTERS

• 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

BICISPORT NOW ON FACEBOOK AT BICISPORT.SYDNEY

This is a new (closed) Facebook site (your membership needs to be approved) and can be found at -

• Bicisport.Sydney

• Email is - Bicisport.Sydney @gmail.com

BICISPORT SPECIAL EVENTS NEWS

Special Events have been added & updated on the BiciSport website which includes -

• Eastern Creek Raceway (Masters)

  • Several weekends to choose from with the next ECR Masters booked for 9 August

• Revised 2020 into 2021 BiciSport Special Events now updated

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 21 & 23 July - 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

• 22 July - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 23 July - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Chairmans Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 25 July - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

La Vie Claire # 1 - Conceived by Bernard Tapie in late 1983 it all kicked off in 1984. Jersey design was based on the Mondrian inspired multi-coloured squares designed by Dutch abstract artist Piet Mondrian. Sponsors were many with La Vie Claire (Health food chain), Radar, Wonder (batteries), Terraillon (bathroom scales), Look (Ski & cycling bindings) and finally Toshiba.

La Vie Claire # 2 - a team loaded with extreme talent with the likes of Greg Lemond, Steve Bauer, Kim Anderson, Andy Hampsten, Bernard Hinault, Nikki Ruttiman, Marc Gomez, Jean Francois Bernard and Pascal Richard. The list was endless.

La Vie Claire # 3 - Toshiba came on board in 1988 as the primary sponsor. The famous Mondrian squares gave way to whatever you call the 1990 team kit (lets be polite … it didn’t really work !)

La Vie Claire # 4 - Bernard Hinault in early 1984 leading the LVC team photo.

News Shorts - 13 July

PENRITH CC HOST AN INVITATIONAL TIME TRIAL ON SATURDAY !8 JULY

• The Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre is a great venue for an Individual Time Trial on Saturday 18 July. Hope to see you there.

• Full event details are listed in the Special Events section of this website

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• Waratah Masters @ Lansdowne @ 12 July - Ian Grainger went top 10 in C grade

COVID 19 RACE CANCELLATIONS re-START

• Covid 19 is most certainly not history yet, and you get the sense that apprehension has well and truly returned.

• Some of the bigger events have recently cancelled, including -

  • 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)

COVID 19 & NORTHSIDE TRAFFIC HOTSPOTS - TRAFFIC VOLUMES UP 20%

• Caution still needs to be exercised on traditional cycling roads like McCarrs Creek Rd towards Church Point, then into Akuna Bay & West Head. Traffic volumes are much higher than normal

• Centennial Park remains very busy with car traffic volumes have increased 20% courtesy of Covid 19

MANLY BEACHFRONT ROAD NOW 30 KPH SPEED LIMITED

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

RACING THIS WEEK

• 18 July - Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre Individual Time Trial (Penrith CC) - from 1pm

• 19 July - Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters), Mt Ku Ring Gai Criteriums (Northern Sydney)

SOME RACES NOT YET COVID APPROVED

• Note that each race organiser needs to have approved COVID procedures from each local Council before their race can proceed. So check on each club website to ensure that the club race has been COVID procedures have been approved.

WARATAH MASTERS RESTART RACING

• Waratah Masters have restarted their interclub racing at Landsowne Park

• Note that non Waratah riders must pre-enter for the next period from July to December for the full period to get a start.

• Non Waratah riders cannot enter on a race by race basis and cash is not accepted.

• Covid 19 Waratah race entry protocols are now listed in this website under Sydney Racing

CYCNSW SINGLETON TEAM TIME TRIAL -

TRAINING FROM 23 AUGUST & RACE DATE OF 7 NOVEMBER

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

BICISPORT NEWSLETTERS

• Many thanks to Ian Grainger for the dedication to the cause in putting out the regular BiciSport email newsletters

• Going forward the new author will be 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

BICISPORT NOW ON FACEBOOK AT BICISPORT.SYDNEY

This is a new (closed) Facebook site (your membership needs to be approved) and can be found at -

• Bicisport.Sydney

• Email is - Bicisport.Sydney @gmail.com

BICISPORT SPECIAL EVENTS NEWS

Special Events have been added & updated on the BiciSport website which includes -

• Eastern Creek Raceway (Masters)

  • Several weekends to choose from with the next ECR Masters booked for 9 August

• Revised 2020 into 2021 BiciSport Special Events now updated

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 14 & 16 July - 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

• 15 July - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 16 July - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Chairmans Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 18 July - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Jacky Aernoudt 1983 # 1 - Another Belgian team … another Belgian furniture (meubel) manufacturer, but this time the team had real firepower in Adrie Van Der Poel (father of Mathieu) and the likes of Hennie Kuiper & Eric Vanderaerden. This was a class team with talent to burn ….

…. but the big trouble was the team was seriously short of real money and burnt through the cash long before the 1983 season got to the midway point at the Tour de France. 1983 was it, thank you very much.

Jacky Aernoudt 1983 # 2 - Hennie Kuiper on the attack in Paris Roubaix through the Wallers Arenberg forest pave.

Jacky Aernoudt 1983 # 3 - Hennie Kuiper punctured on the Hem cobbles just 5k from the Roubaix Velodrome finish, changed team bikes and took the win.

Jacky Aernoudt 1983 # 4 - Aernoudt rode Italian Rossin frames with Campagnolo groupsets. A great team loaded with talent but regrettably inversely proportional to the amount of cash on hand to keep it all alive.

News Shorts - 6 July

BiciSport Holbrook to Albury @ 27 June - Frank Signor (Anytime Fitness) chasing the Bici peloton into Albury in light drizzle

BiciSport Centennial Park Ride @ 2 July - weather was delightful & Centennial Park hordes were not as prolific as in past (COVID crush) weeks & included BiciSport regulars in Ian Grainger, John Crouchley & Peter Stupka.

BICISPORT MEMBER RACE NEWS

• Waratah Masters @ Lansdowne @ 5 July - Ian Grainger rode well in C grade but acknowledged those who spent the Covid period active on Swift & Strava and those who maybe cycled to coffee shops … By all accounts it was a good turn up & great to see racing back again

COVID 19 & NORTHSIDE TRAFFIC HOTSPOTS - TRAFFIC VOLUMES UP 20%

• Caution still needs to be exercised on traditional cycling roads like McCarrs Creek Rd towards Church Point, then into Akuna Bay & West Head. Traffic volumes are much higher than normal

• Centennial Park remains very busy with car traffic volumes have increased 20% courtesy of Covid 19

RACING THIS WEEK

• 12 July - Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)

Penrith CC host an Individual Time Trial club event at the Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre on Saturday 18 July. If you would like a start please contact Danielle on 0468 913 682

Whilst NSW Club Racing has officially resumed this week some racing venues have not had their Covid Safety Plans approved by Local Councils just yet.

Check club websites for the latest updates.

SOME RACES NOT YET COVID APPROVED

• Note that each race organiser needs to have approved COVID procedures from each local Council before races can proceed. So check on each club website to ensure that the club race has been COVID approved.

WARATAH MASTERS RESTART RACING

• Waratah Masters have restarted their interclub racing at Landsowne Park

• Only Lansdowne is currently COVID approved (not Eastern Creek as yet)

• Note that non Waratah riders must pre-enter for the next period from July to December for the full period to get a start. Non Waratah riders cannot enter on a race by race basis and cash is not accepted.

• Covid 19 Waratah race entry protocols are now listed in this website under Sydney Racing

CYCNSW SINGLETON TEAM TIME TRIAL -

TRAINING FROM 23 AUGUST & RACE DATE OF 7 NOVEMBER

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

BICISPORT NEWSLETTERS

• Many thanks to Ian Grainger for the dedication to the cause in putting out the regular BiciSport email newsletters

• Going forward the new author will be 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

BICISPORT NOW ON FACEBOOK AT BICISPORT.SYDNEY

This is a new (closed) Facebook site (your membership needs to be approved) and can be found at -

• Bicisport.Sydney

• Email is - Bicisport.Sydney @gmail.com

BICISPORT SPECIAL EVENTS NEWS

Special Events have been added & updated on the BiciSport website which includes -

• Eastern Creek Raceway (Masters)

  • Several weekends to choose from with the next ECR Masters booked for 9 August

• Revised 2020 into 2021 BiciSport Special Events now updated

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 7 & 9 July - 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

• 8 July - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 9 July - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Chairmans Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 11 July - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Spanish KAS # 1 - Jean de Gribaldy (in the team car) was the esteemed KAS Sports Director who was tragically killed in a car accident in 1987

Spanish KAS # 2 - Sean Kelly atop the aluminium team issue Vitus frameset in the Tour of Spain … arguably one of the worst framesets ever built with frame breakages pretty much standard

Spanish KAS # 3 - Sean Kelly was the leading KAS team professional between 1986-88.

KAS was Spanish soft drinks & Canal 10 a TV station

Spanish KAS # 4 - Sean Kelly going aero atop the aluminium Vitus … good luck with that !

Spanish KAS # 5 - KAS was a Spanish soft drinks manufacturer and sponsored cycling teams from 1958 until 1979, then re-entered cycling team sponsorship from 1986-88 with Sean Kelly.

News Shorts - 29 June

BiciSport Holbrook to Albury @ 27 June - a chilly start at the Holbrook Submarine with 10 starters in the BiciSport peloton

BiciSport Holbrook to Albury @ 27 June - a gentile start out of Holbrook towards Annandayle then onto the climbs of Woomargama Way, then the rolling countryside towards the Wymah Ferry and into Albury.

BiciSport Holbrook to Albury @ 27 June - Frank Signor tackles the steep climb on Woormargama Way

BiciSport Holbrook to Albury @ 27 June - Melissa Budd over the Woormargama Climb

BiciSport Holbrook to Albury @ 27 June - Peter Budd leads the peloton out of Holbrook through some delightful scenery

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

• BiciSport Holbrook to Albury Ride @ 27 June

  • A peloton of 10 riders lined up for the 120k from Holbrook to Albury. Road conditions were good with a light chilly breeze for the 80k run towards the Murray River, then the final 40k loop run into Albury via the Wymah Ferry

  • Special thanks to Peter & Melissa Budd for organising the journey and the following team bus.

COVID 19 & NORTHSIDE TRAFFIC HOTSPOTS

• Caution still needs to be exercised on traditional cycling roads like McCarrs Creek Rd towards Church Point, then into Akuna Bay & West Head. Traffic volumes are much higher than normal

• Centennial Park remains very busy with car traffic at present courtesy of Covid 19

RACING THIS WEEK

• 5 July - Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)

WARATAH MASTERS RESTART RACING 5 JULY

• Waratah Masters restart their interclub racing at Landsowne Park on Sunday 5 July.

• Note that non Waratah riders must pre-enter for the next period from July to December for the full period to get a start.

• Non Waratah riders cannot enter on a race by race basis and cash is not accepted.

• Covid 19 Waratah race entry protocols are now listed in this website under Sydney Racing

CYCNSW SINGLETON TEAM TIME TRIAL -

TRAINING FROM 23 AUGUST & RACE DATE OF 7 NOVEMBER

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

BICISPORT NEWSLETTERS

• Many thanks to Ian Grainger for the dedication to the cause in putting out the regular BiciSport email newsletters

• Going forward the new author will be 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

BICISPORT NOW ON FACEBOOK AT BICISPORT.SYDNEY

This is a new (closed) Facebook site (your membership needs to be approved) and can be found at -

• Bicisport.Sydney

• Email is - Bicisport.Sydney @gmail.com

BICISPORT SPECIAL EVENTS NEWS

Special Events have been added & updated on the BiciSport website which includes -

• Eastern Creek Raceway (Masters)

  • Several weekends to choose from with the next ECR Masters booked for 9 August

• Revised 2020 into 2021 BiciSport Special Events now updated

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 30 June - 2 July - 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

• 1 July - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 2 July - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Chairmans Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 4 July - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Belgium Vermeer Thijs # 1 - Alfons (Fons) de Wolf was the leading rider in the Vermeer team. Meubelen is Flemish (Meubles in French) for furniture and several furniture brands sponsored cycling teams at that time .

Belgium Vermeer Thijs # 2 - Fons De Wolf won the Tour of Lombardy at the end of 1980, then won Milan San Remo (picture above) at the beginning of 1981.

Belgium Vermeer Thijs # 3 - Fons De Wolf in classic aero position atop the Gios Torino framset loaded with a Campagnolo groupset

Belgium Vermeer Thijs # 4 - Roger Swerts (ex Eddy Merckx team mate) was the Vermeer Sports Director

Belgium Vermeer Thijs # 5 - Roland Liboton (centre of picture) was the World Cyclo Cross Champion.

News Shorts - 15 June

Giro 1988 # 1 - The Gavia Pass was first used in the Giro in 1960. Its been 32 years since the Giro went over the Gavia Pass in 1988 in a freakish snow storm on the way to the Bormio stage finish.

Eric Breukink (pictured, Team Panasonic) near the summit. The descent from the Gavia summit into Bormio was as dangerous as it was cold.

Giro 1988 # 2 - The Gavia Pass was built by the military during World War 1 and essentially hangs off a cliff. In 1988 there was still gravel sections to be traversed. Franco Chiccoli defends the Pink Jersey

Giro 1988 # 3 - Andy Hampsten (7 Eleven Team) prepares to attack both Chiccoli & Bruekink. Hampsten would go on to win the Giro.

Giro 1988 # 4 - things begin to get a bit grim towards the Gavia Pass summit

Gavia 1988 # 5 - Andy Hampsten crests the Gavia Pass summit

COVID 19 & NORTHSIDE TRAFFIC HOTSPOTS

• Caution still needs to be exercised on traditional cycling roads like McCarrs Creek Rd towards Church Point, then into Akuna Bay & West Head. Traffic volumes are much higher than normal

CYCNSW SINGLETON TEAM TIME TRIAL -

TRAINING FROM 23 AUGUST & RACE DATE OF 7 NOVEMBER

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

FLANDERS CLASSICS - THE BEST YOUTUBE EVER

• A bit bored watching the Food Channel replaying calorie inspired reruns ? …. If you want some great Flanders YouTube then go to Flanders Classics and go to Flanders 100, 101, 102 and beyond. Simply brilliant behind the scenes documentaries.

BICISPORT NOW ON FACEBOOK AT BICISPORT.SYDNEY

This is a new (closed) Facebook site (your membership needs to be approved) and can be found at -

• Bicisport.Sydney

• Email is - Bicisport.Sydney @gmail.com

Don’t miss the BiciSport ride from Holbrook to Albury on Saturday 27 June. Details are in the Special Events section of this website.

The BiciSport Holbrook to Albury ride on 27 June features the crossing of the Whymah Ferry near Albury

BICISPORT SPECIAL EVENTS NEWS

Special Events have been added & updated on the BiciSport website which includes -

• BiciSport Ride : Holbrook to Albury on Saturday 27 June

• Eastern Creek Raceway (Masters)

  • Several weekends to choose from with the next ECR Masters booked for 9 August

• Revised 2020 into 2021 BiciSport Special Events now updated

BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

• 16 & 18 June - 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

• 17 June - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

• 18 June - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Chairmans Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe

• 20 June - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am

Sandstone Cafe @ 13 June - The Sandstone grupetto included (L to R) - Richard Mulberry, Ken Edwards, Paul Worby, Eric Dole, John Page, Ian Grainger, Marty Wright & Nigel Smith. Coffee is from 9.30am every Saturday and all welcome.

Belgian professional teams circa 1986 - this time its the kermesse focused TeVe-blad team sitting atop a team Citroen.

TeVe-blad as the name implies was the Belgian weekly TV magazine at the time (like our own TV Times magazine). Eddy Merckx supplied the frames & Campagnolo the groupsets.