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