Taree Team Time Trial @ 22 May - Stew Campbell (left) and Randolph Baral combined in the 2 person teams event
Taree Team Time Trial @ 22 May - Stew Campbell & Randolph Baral (BiciSport Happy Wheels) at the new Taree event
BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS
Recovery Ward - Best wishes to Raoul Westbrook after an accident and time in RNS in recovery. Best wishes Raoul and a speedy recovery
Taree Time Trial @ 22-23 May - Stew Campbell & Randolph Baral (BiciSport Happy Wheels) ventured up the NSW north coast to Taree for the inaugural Taree Chrono. A podium spot beckoned but a late puncture (to Stew) ended the team effort.
ST IVES TO BROOME (WA) - GREETINGS FROM BANKA BANKA NORTHERN TERRITORY
The Burke & Wills peloton led by Eric Dole continues half way through the Northern Territory & currently sits at Banka Banka (Northern Territory). The next milestone will be the NT-WA border crossing in a few days along the Buchanan Highway.
DE RONDE 104 NOW OUT ON YOUTUBE
For fans of Ronde documentaries then Ronde 104 has just been released. Simply brilliant.
Ronde 104 - Van der Poel versus Van Aert
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
29 May - Bundanoon Handicap (Southern Highlands)
30 May - Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK
Tues 25 May
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
Centennial Park Lower Loop from 5.30am to 7.45am
Wed 26 May
Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return
Thurs 27 May
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 29 May - Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
MELBURN ROOBAIX COBBLES RETURN ON 27 JUNE IN MELBOURNE
Its quirky as the Melburn Roobaix cyclosportive finds all of the cobbled back lanes of inner city Melbourne to loosely replicate the French original (well maybe not) over some 40k. The finish is at the Brunswick Velodrome for a great day out.
Melburn Roobaix on 27 June has it all ! ! … its got cobbles and yes its super quirky
Index Alexia Professional Cycling Team - 2002 was a one lire hit wonder
Sometimes in cycling the back story is far more interesting than the racing itself. Who needs racing when politics and dollars or lire collide. So is the story of the one shot wonders at Index Alexia where the story got in the way of truth and a complete lack of real lire or dollars. Sponsors were Index (Internet ticketing services), Alexia (a Bergamo aluminium company), Ciocc frames (but branded as Coppi for some reason). Nobody knew what Blue Merchandising did as a sponsor but it didn’t really matter as no money was ever forthcoming (no surprises there). The team manager was Piercarlo Pedruzzi … who had the dream (or nightmare) but no dollars to keep the good ship Index afloat from day one. In fact the team ran out of money by February (of 2002) of the year it all started … the team itself was more like a lycra clad Ponzi scheme.
Team riders were an odd bunch of fading talent and Paolo Salvodelli very much the one and only main man. Paolo somehow actually won the 2002 Tour of Italy for Index Alexia but only when several other close competitors got busted for doping and arrested by the local police (that does help the DNF list). At the end of the day poor Paolo was still an unpaid leader of a bankrupt team who somehow took the coveted 2002 Giro pink jersey.
