Waratah Masters Ride around Akuna Bay @ 1 Dec - Ian Grainger & Paul Evangilides at Terrey Hills
Climbing Mt Kosciuszko @ 1 Dec - Graeme Cocks (BiciSport) earning a well deserved polka dot climbers jersey at the summit
BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS
Waratah Masters @ 6 Dec - Ian Grainger & Mike Lawson both went top 10 in C grade
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
8 Dec - Tuesday Heffron Park Summer Series (Maroubra)
13 Dec - Heffron Park (Waratah Masters). West Head “The Wall” 100k Handicap (Manly CC), Rhys O’Shea Classic (Camden CC), Tamworth Track Open (CycNSW)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK
8 Dec - Centennial Park Lower Loop from 5.30am to 7.45am
8 & 10 Dec - 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 Dec - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return
10 Dec - Happy Wheels Waterloo Ride @ 6.00am @ Happy Wheels bike shop at Waterloo. Spruce Goose Ride @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am @ Spruce Goose Cafe
12 Dec - BiciSport Coffee at Miramare Sandstone Cafe (enter off Myoora Rd) @ 9.30am
Giro d’Italia 1965 - the Stelvio stage resorts to cyclocross as a snow avalanche blocks the road but the stage continues. Aldo Moser leads the peloton through the Stelvio snow wall. Aldo was the brother of Francesco Moser, and sadly Aldo recently passed away due to Covid 19 complications. RIP Aldo.
Saeco Professional Cycling Team - Established in 1996 and sponsorship ended at the end of 2004 (team then became Lampre). Saeco was (is) Italian coffee and the bikes were Cannondale loaded with Campagnolo groupsets.
They raced hard, they played hard, they won a lot and big. Obviously you couldn’t get past Mario Cipollini most of the time but the team was much more than just Cipo and over the top publicity. Be it a Francesco Casagrande (one tough unit), Silvio Martinelli, Ivan Gotti (Giro win), Roberto Petito, Salvatore Commesso, Paulo Salvodelli, Stefano Zanini, Gilberto Simoni (Giro win), Fabio Sacchi, Igor Astarloa (2003 World Road Champion) pictured above, Damiano Cunego (Giro win) and Danilo De Luca.
Mario Cipollini took 4 consecutive stage wins at the 1999 Tour de France
Mario Cipollini came to the 1997 Tour De France team presentation dressed as Julius Caesar …. as you do
Mario Cipollini and “that” speedsuit
Damiano Cunego won the Giro in the early stages of his career plus the Tour of Lombardy
The seriously talented Gilberto Simoni won the Giro and a whole lot more
The Saeco Red Guard getting serious and in full flight at the Giro
