News Shorts - 17 February

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 14 Feb - Lise Benjamin took Gold in the Pointscore

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 14 Feb - Lise Benjamin took Gold in the Pointscore

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 14 Feb - Jeremy Hopson (BiciSport Pilu Racing) took Silver in the Pointscore

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 14 Feb - Jeremy Hopson (BiciSport Pilu Racing) took Silver in the Pointscore

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 13 Feb - Davide Browne (BiciSport Happy Wheels) puts the spin on Mike Smith in the Sprint final. It didn’t work and Davide took the Silver medal

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 13 Feb - Davide Browne (BiciSport Happy Wheels) puts the spin on Mike Smith in the Sprint final. It didn’t work and Davide took the Silver medal

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 13 Feb - Davide Browne faces off against Mike Smith

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 13 Feb - Davide Browne faces off against Mike Smith

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 13 Feb - Lise Benjamin took the Bronze in the Sprint

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 13 Feb - Lise Benjamin took the Bronze in the Sprint

Waratah Masters @ Eastern Creek @ 16 Feb - Eric Dole in Masters B grade

Waratah Masters @ Eastern Creek @ 16 Feb - Eric Dole in Masters B grade

Waratah Masters @ Eastern Creek @ 16 Feb - Ian Grainger, Eric Dole & Marty Wright

Waratah Masters @ Eastern Creek @ 16 Feb - Ian Grainger, Eric Dole & Marty Wright

BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS

  • NSW Masters Track Championships @ 13-16 Feb

    • Sprints @ 13 Feb - Davide Browne took Silver & Lise Benjamin the Bronze

    • Time Trials & Points Race @ 14 Feb - Davide Browne took Bronze in the ITT, Silver in the Points. Lise Benjamin took Gold in ITT and Silver in the Points. Jeremy Hopson the Gold in the ITT & Silver in the Points

    • Individual Pursuit @ 15 Feb - Jeremy Hopson & Peter Verhoeven both took Silver medals in their age category

    • Scratch Race @ 16 Feb - Davide Browne finished 4th courtesy of a softening rear tyre

  • Eastern Creek Raceway @ 16 Feb - Eric Dole & Marty Wright rode a peloton finish in B grade with Peter Krause 3rd in C grade and Ian Grainger 6th

RACING THIS WEEK

  • 18 Feb - Heffron Park Criteriums

  • 23 Feb - Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters), Giro d’Canberra Cyclosportive (ACT)

BICISPORT SPECIAL EVENTS NEWS

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

  • Heffron Park Summer Criteriums

    • Every Tuesday from 6.00pm at Heffron Park Maroubra

  • Wagga (Tolland) Weekend - 7 & 8 March

    • Traditionally the first event on the NSW Open Winter program.

  • Bathurst to Bathurst Weekend - 14 & 15 March

    • The premier weekend on the NSW calendar with criteriums on the Saturday in central Bathurst and a new B2B course on the Sunday

  • Winter Special Events - now updated

    • Further dates now posted with information to follow

Herald Sun Tour @ Melbourne Botanical Gardens @ 9 Feb - a local fan turns up to display a 1988 PDM team issue time trial bike - complete with full Campagnolo groupset, Delta brakes, cowhorn handelbars, rear HED disc wheel & slightly smaller fron…

Herald Sun Tour @ Melbourne Botanical Gardens @ 9 Feb - a local fan turns up to display a 1988 PDM team issue time trial bike - complete with full Campagnolo groupset, Delta brakes, cowhorn handelbars, rear HED disc wheel & slightly smaller front Campagnolo Shamal disc wheel. Very very nice.

The PDM Concorde in action in 1988 with Steven Rooks (left) in control with Claude Criquelion

The PDM Concorde in action in 1988 with Steven Rooks (left) in control with Claude Criquelion

BICISPORT GROUP RIDES THIS WEEK - FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT 0417 403 244

Motor traffic conditions are now HEAVIER with the NSW School term in full swing

* Note -

  • Roadworks

    • Forest Way (at Forestville) … taking longer to resolve than the AusCycling fiasco

    • 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

  • 18 & 20 February - 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 February - Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return

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

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

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 13 Feb - Lise Benjamin (BiciSport Anytime Fitness)

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 13 Feb - Lise Benjamin (BiciSport Anytime Fitness)

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 13 Feb - Davide Browne and the life of a DGV track rider

NSW Masters Track Championships @ DGV @ 13 Feb - Davide Browne and the life of a DGV track rider

Tour de France 1973 - Luis Ocana (Team Bic) atop the first titanium road bike in the professional peloton way back in 1973

Tour de France 1973 - Luis Ocana (Team Bic) atop the first titanium road bike in the professional peloton way back in 1973