Heffron Park Tuesday Night Criteriums - Eastern Suburbs host the final round on Tuesday 23 March @ 5pm.
Should 23 March get washed out the final round will be postponed to 30 March
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.
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
23 Mar - Heffron Park Criteriums - Final Round (Maroubra)
Will be postponed to 30 March if 23 March is washed out
27-28 Mar- Giro Della Donna Cyclosportive (Warburton, Vic)
28 Mar - Bobbin Head Classic (Turramurra), Snowy Mountains Challenge (Adelong, near Tumut), Heffron Park Criteriums (Waratah Masters)
31 Mar-1 Apr - AusCycling National Masters Track Championships (Brisbane)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK
Tues 23 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 24 Mar
Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return
Thurs 25 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 27 Mar - Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
The Belgian Classic season continues with the E3 Harelbeke Classic on Vrijdag (Friday) 26 March on similar roads used in the Tour of Flanders next week. The E3 is well known for its quirky annual race publicity posters and the tradition continues in 2021.
Skil Sem Professional Cycling Team 1984-85
A quality French team with Jean De Gribaldy the iron fisted Sports Director ( … been there, done that, now get on with it sort of attitude … ). Sponsors in 1984 were Skil (drills), Reydel, Sem, Mavic (cycle components). Then in 1985 it switched to Sem, Kas (Spanish soft drinks) and Miko (ice cream). Framsets were Vitus Aluminium or Vitus Carbon and both had a pedigree of poor build quality and didn’t last long (frame breakages were common place).
The team itself won a lot and won big (often) … Sean Kelly was a class act and won 33 times in 1984 and took Paris Roubaix, Leige B Leige, Paris Tours and a whole lot more later in his career with Milan San Remo and Tour of Lombardy. Eric Caritoux won the Tour of Spain in 1984 with other victories flowed at Amstel Gold, Criterium International, Basque Tour & Nissan Classic. It was a class team with the likes of Gerrie Knetemann, Jean Claude Bagot, Frederic Vichot & Jorg Muller,
Skil Sem Professional Cycling Team 1984-85 - Sean Kelly in Paris Roubaix
Skil Sem Professional Cycling Team 1984-85 - Sean Kelly again in Paris Roubaix
Skil Sem Professional Cycling Team 1984-85 - Sean Kelly climbing the Geraadsbergen Mur cobbles in the Tour of Flanders
