West Head Road Race @ 31 Jan - Klayton Smith took 3rd
West Head Road Race @ 31 Jan - Dudley Hoskin, Klayton Smith, Rolly Delaytz & Darren Benson
Goulburn Track Open @ 30 Jan - Davide Browne (BiciSport Happy Wheels) approaches the Roller Derby ramp
Goulburn Track Open @ 30 Jan - Davide Browne giving it full gas in the Roller Derby. Davide reached the semi finals in a top ride
Goulburn Track Open @ 30 Jan - Davide Browne looking comfortable in the Scratch Race where he went on to finish second.
Goulburn Track Open @ 30 Jan - Davide Browne shadowed by Paul Craft in the Goulburn Wheelrace heat, where both riders qualified for the Final.
Bowral Track Open @ 31 Jan and the picturesque Bowral velodrome
Bowral Track Open @ 31 Jan - Davide Browne wins the Bowral Wheelrace heat in light drizzle
Bowral Track Open @ 31 Jan - Tandem versus 3 Man Teams Pursuit …. Davide Browne eyes off the opposition
Bowral Track Open @ 31 Jan - 3 Man Teams Pursuit on one side of the velodrome … tandem on the other side … Tandem wins by a narrow 15 metres over 3 laps
Bowral Track Open @ 31 Jan - Davide Browne (third wheel) in the Bowral Wheelrace Final, but victory alluded Davide this time.
Penrith Criterium @ Eastern Creek @ 25 Jan - Davide Browne took second place to the Master Blaster in Paul Craft
Waratah Masters @ Eastern Creek @ 31 Jan - Raoul Westbrook 5th in D grade
Waratah Masters @ Eastern Creek @ 31 Jan - Ian Grainger, Raoul Westbrook & David Cooper
Darren Benson (left - BiciSport Happy Wheels)
AUSCYCLING NATIONAL ROAD CHAMPIONSHIPS - 3-7 FEBRUARY
Darren Benson (BiciSport) lines up at the National Road Championships at Ballarat on 7 February. Simply put this effort is no cakewalk with 16 laps of the Mt Helen (double) climb just outside Ballarat.
National Road Championships Program
3 Feb - Time Trials - 9.15am to 6pm
4 Feb - Time Trials - Para @ 10.00am, Club Teams Time Trial @ 12.30pm
5 Feb - Criteriums (All Divisions) - 12.35pm to 6.30pm
6 Feb - Road Races - Para @ 7.30am, Under 19 @ 9.40am, Under 23 @ 1.20pm
7 Feb - Road Races - Women @ 8.50am, Men @ 12.30pm
Website is www.roadnationals.org.au
BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS
Penrith Criterium @ Eastern Creek @ 25 Jan - Davide Browne polished his form with second at the ECR criterium hosted by Penrith CC on the Monday night.
Goulburn & Bowral Track Opens @ 30-31 January
Goulburn CC hosted a great carnival with excellent sized fields in each category, and the three Womens categories typified how good the resultant racing turned out to be. Davide Browne had a cracker of a night with a semi final berth in the Roller Derby, a victory in the Kieren & last Scratch Race, and second places both in the first Scratch Race & Wheelerace heat.
Southern Highlands CC hosted the Bowral Track Open at the delightful Bowral Velodrome. As velodromes go this takes the “most pretty award” every time. Davide won the Wheelrace heat & Kieren sprint, and was narrowly defeated in the Tandem teams pursuit
Waratah Masters @ Eastern Creek @ 31 Jan - Raoul Westbrook took 5th in D grade, with both Ian Grainger & David Cooper prominent in C grade
West Head Road Race @ 31 Jan - Klayton Smith went podium with 3rd, Darren Benson went top ten & a fine ride by Rolly Delaytz
EASTERN CREEK RACES NOW A 6.45AM START
Effective immediately all Waratah Masters races at ECR go to a 6.45am start
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
2 Feb - Heffron Park Criteriums (Maroubra)
3-7 Feb - AusCycling National Road Championships (Ballarat, Vic)
7 Feb - Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK
Tues 2 Feb
Centennial Park Lower Loop from 5.30am to 7.45am
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
Wed 3 Feb
Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return
Thurs 4 Feb
Happy Wheels Waterloo Spin to La Perouse @ 6.00am
Centennial Park @ Spruce Goose Cafe @ 10.30am for Park laps
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
Sat 6 Feb - Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
Atala Professional Cycling Team 1908 to 1989. Yes, from 1908 is a long long time. Atala is Italian and naturally make bicycles. Co-sponsors included Dunlop (tyres), Pirelli (tyres), Ofmega & Campagnolo (both groupsets).
The team itself had somewhat moderate results in the early years (decades ?) with Vito Taccone & Gio Cordovani (pictured above in 1947). To be fair the team rarely ventured outside Italy.
The team won 15 Giro stages and two Giri overall. In the later years Urs Freuler won 10 World Track Championships, and other notables included Pierino Gavazzi and Gianni Bugno. Bugno went onto greater things in his following teams after Atala.
Atala Professional Cycling Team - Urs Freuler wins a Giro stage
Atala Professional Cycling Team - Urs Freuler (right) again at the Giro
Atala-Pirelli Cycling Team at the 1947 Giro
Atala Professional Cycling Team - Urs Freuler was the World Track Pointscore Champion
