News Shorts - 2 December

UCI World Masters Cyclocross Championships @ 29 Nov - Mike Lawson (BiciSport Master) faced four laps (40 minutes) of the sandy & heavy Zilvermeer Lake circuit near Mol on the Belge-Dutch border. Mike struggled with a popped hamstring on the second lap (of four) whilst running down the sand dune section but carried on to finish 11th.
Mike’s next (and last race in Belgium) is at Loksbergen mid week

Tour of Bright (Vic) @ 29 Nov-1 Dec
- Stage 1 (29 Nov) - A new 17k indiviidual time trial course (out & back) along the Buckland Valley near Bright offering a rolling circuit through some delightful Alpine countryside. Conditions were hot & windy and Tom Green finished 44th (from 55 starters) @ 3min 3secs.
- Stage 2 (30 Nov) - The 90k road stage offered the Rosewhite Climb at 40k & the final surge to the finish at Tawonga Gap outside Mt Beauty. Tom was sitting in the B grade Masters peloton very comfortably until the air departed his rear tyre at the 40k mark. No Neutral Spares (usually provided by the Race Organisation) meant a long long wait for a replacement wheel from a very kind onlooker and a steady ride to the finish atop Tawonga Gap.
- Stage 3 (1 Dec) - The final short stage over 39k promised a really gritty finish atop Mt Buffalo. It maybe just 39k but a lot of it was all up, up and up again. It started off dry but turned nasty at the start of the Mt Buffalo climb with steady rain, regular sleet & light snow.
Pilu Bear Cottage Charity Ride @ 1 Dec - Congratulations to Gio Pilu (Pilu Racing) for another highly successful Bear Cottage Charity Ride from Pilu Freshwater
L’Etape @ Jindabyne @ 1 Dec - Eric Dole was a BiciSport starter & a ride report to come

3 Dec - Heffron Park Tuesday Night Criteriums (Maroubra, NSW)
3-7 Dec - Tour of Tasmania (CA NRS)
- Mike O’Reilly is in the NRS convoy driving team
6 Dec - HART (St Ives) (Manly CC)
8 Dec - West Head Road Race (Manly CC), Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters), Ourimbah Criteriums (Central Coast CC)

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

Heffron Park Summer Criteriums - continues on November 26
- Every Tuesday from 6.00pm at Heffron Park Maroubra
BiciSport Christmas Party - Happy Wheels Waterloo - Friday 13 December
- Stew Campbell hosts the night of nights with free pizza and a few wines
Celebratory Noel La Rose 82k ride - 21 December
- Noel turns 82 years young & celbrates with 82k around Homebush Olympic Park
BiciSport Christmas-New Years Tour de Terrey Hills - 21 December to 2 January
- For BiciSport members & friends who’d like a local club ride over the Christmas & New Year period
Cyclosportive - Tumut Cycle Classic - 12 January
- Peter Budd will happily guide you through some delightful Snowy Mountains countryside outside Tumut.

* Motor traffic conditions are now HEAVIER with the NSW School Term back in full swing from 15 October

* Note -

Roadworks
- Forest Way (at Forestville) … taking longer to resolve than the Operation Puerto cycling drug bust !
- Mona Vale Rd (Kimbriki Tip to Mona Vale) … road widening has commenced with a completion date of 2022.

All group rides are cancelled if wet

3 & 5 December
- 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 December
- Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return
5 December
- Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo.
- Chairmans Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe
7 December
- BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am