Bathurst to Bathurst @ 14 Mar - Tom Green & a pensive Eric Dole on the start line … it wasn’t raining (yet)
Bathurst to Bathurst @ 14 Mar - a damp roll out from the Bathurst start for Tom & Eric
Bathurst to Bathurst @ 14 Mar - Tom Green has the ride of the weekend for an excellent 5th in category
Bathurst 2 Bathurst @ 14 Mar - Eric Dole finishing 15th in category in the Bathurst main street
Bathurst 2 Bathurst @ 14 Mar - before the (damp) start with Eric Dole, Ruth Strapp, Tom Green
Bathurst 2 Bathurst @ 14 Mar - Ruth Strapp on the Sunday start of the Bathurst Road Race
Bathurst 2 Bathurst @ 13 Mar - Ruth Strapp (far left - BicisPort Happy Wheels) in the Mt Panorama Criterium
Heffron Park @ 9 Mar - Rolly Delaytz “full gas” coming into the Heffron finishing straight
Heffron Park @ 9 Mar - Rolly Delaytz (BiciSport Happy Wheels).
Heffron Park Tuesday Night Criteriums conclude Season # 35 on Tuesday 23 March.
Heffron Park @ 9 Mar - Rolly Delaytz
Heffron Park @ 9 Mar - Rolly Delaytz
Heffron Park @ 9 Mar - Rolly Delaytz (3rd from left) on the Heffron Park finishing straight
West Head Individual Time Trial @ 7 Mar - Tim White (Anytime Fitness) giving it everything on the West Head Road
BATHURST 2 BATHURST REPORT BY MIKE O’R
After overnight thunderstorms conditions dawned damp & dirty. Mt Panorama was slippery but everybody survived. Tom Green finished in the front group (for a super 5th), with Eric Dole in the second group for 15th and Ruth Strapp a solid 17th.
CYCLOSPORTIVES DATES ANNOUNCED - SNOWY VALLEY 28 MARCH & SINGELTON 11 APRIL
The Snowy Valley Challenge runs out of Adelong (near Tumut) on 28 March. Start & finish is in Adelong with a route via backroads to Batlow and return
The Mail Run on 11 April is a long running cyclosportive in the Hunter Valley based out of Singleton on roads used in the NSW Teams Time Trial Championships around Glendon. A great weekend is guaranteed.
Both event details are in the BiciSport Special Events section of this website.
EASTERN CREEK MASTERS RACES NOW A 6.45AM START
Effective immediately all Waratah Masters races at ECR go to a 6.45am start
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
16 Mar - Heffron Park Criteriums (Maroubra)
21 Mar- L’Etape Cyclosportive (Nowra) …. CANCELLED
21 Mar - Mt Ku Ring Gai Criteriums (Northern Sydney), Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)
Griffith BiciSport @ 9 Mar - The Gang of Four during the early morning Griffith sunrise. The ride starts at 6am and headed out towards Lake Wanguyn on the outskirts of Griffith, then the final climb up to Pioneer Park above Griffith. Left to right - Melissa Budd, Tony Jones, Peter Budd and the Maglia Rosa in Frank Signor
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK
Tues 16 Mar
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 17 Mar
Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return
Thurs 18 Mar
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 20 Mar - Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
Fagor Professional Cycling Team from 1966-69 then 1985-1989. Fagor manufactures high quality kitchen appliances, with secondary sponsors in Mercier (bikes), MBK (bikes), Hutchinson (tyres), Fargas (?) and Bose (stereo equipment).
The early Fagor team (1966-69) was Spanish registered and was loaded with Spanish locals including Luis Ocana (pictured above - Luis won the 1973 Tour de France). The second Fagor team (1985-89) was French registered and had a much more Anglo feel with several English speaking notables.
The team won stages at both Giro & Tour. These Anglo imports into Fagor were a hugely talented peloton and included Sean Yates (the ultimate hard man), Stephen Roche (World, Giro & Tour winner), Robert Millar, Malcolm Elliott (won a stage in the 1988 Herald Sun Tour in Australia), Paul Kimmage, Pedro Munoz & Eddy Schepers. Fagor “Mark 2” only lasted 5 years (from 1985-89) and deserved a longer life.
Fagor Professional Cycling Team - Luis Ocana (centre) crashed in the 1969 Tour de France and was assisted to the stage finish by his Fagor team mates
Fagor Professional Cycling Team - Sean Yates was a powerhouse in the Milan San Remo Classic. Note the use of Campagnolo Delta brakes (universally acknowledged as the worst braking system ever invented).
Fagor Professional Cycling Team - Sean Yates (again on Delta brakes) takes a stage win at the Tour of Spain
Fagor Professional Cycling Team - Paul Kimmage (left) with Stephen Roche with not a Campag Delta brake caliper in sight.
Fagor Professional Cycling Team - Pedro Munoz (centre) wearing the last version of the Fagor team jersey in 1989. Most of the talented Anglo peloton had left the Fagor team in late 1988.
