St Ives to Broome (WA) @ 10 June - approaching the WA-NT border
St Ives to Broome (WA) @ 10 June - Eric Dole (BiciSport) enjoying the journey out the middle of somewhere
St Ives to Broome (WA) @ 11 June - Eric Dole (BiciSport Happy Wheels) sitting second wheel approaching Lake Argyle in Western Australia
BICISPORT MEMBER NEWS
Recovery Ward - Best wishes to Raoul Westbrook after a car accident and time in RNS in recovery. Best wishes Raoul and a speedy recovery
Update @ 14 June - Raoul did take a heavy knock from the car with several broken bones (collarbone/ribs/pelvis) but Raoul is in remarkably good spirits and on the way to recovery. Raoul will be transferred out of RNS shortly for rehab on the northern beaches.
MELBURN ROOBAIX - COVID CAUSES A DATE CHANGE TO 29 AUGUST
The Melburn Roobaix Cyclosportive set down for late June is now scheduled for 29 August courtesy of the latest Melbourne Covid lockdown
SINGLETON STATE TEAMS TIME TRIAL - RESERVE SATURDAY 30 OCTOBER
By the time you read this it could be time to dust off the time trial beast and start thinking about the NSW Team Time Trial Championships on Saturday 30 October at Singleton
BiciSport training sessions for the prospective TTT teams will commence in early August at Terrey Hills based out of Miramare Gardens (Sandstone Cafe on Myoora Rd).
Details are in the Special Events section of this website
ST IVES TO BROOME (WA) - GREETINGS FROM THE WEST AUSTRALIAN BORDER
The Burke & Wills peloton led by Eric Dole has arrived at the Western Australian border & currently sits near Lake Argyle (Western Australia). The next milestone is the big turn left past Lake Argyle (WA) and whilst Broome isn’t on the horizon just yet it is certainly coming
BOWRAL CLASSIC ADDS SATURDAY CRITERIUM TO THE OCTOBER WEEKEND
The Bowral Classic has added a Saturday criterium based around the Bradman Oval on the outskirts of Bowral. Well done Bowral Classic for making a great weekend even better.
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
June 19 - Wombeyan Caves Handicap (Southern Highlands)
June 19-20 - Gunnedah Weekend (CyclingNSW)
June 20 - Mt Ku Ring Gai Criteriums (North Sydney CC), Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK
Tues 15 June
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 16 June
Wise Monkey Cafe Gruppetto @ Berowra Railway Station @ 7.30am for 60k to Calga & return
Thurs 17 June
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 19 June - Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30amx
Bonjour Professional Cycling Team (France) - 2000-2002 (with Sylvain Chavanel pictured)
Bonjour had its roots in System U (1984), Castorama (1990), then Jean Rene Bernandeau arrived in the shape of Team Vendee U in 1992. Bonjour arrived in 2000, then morphed into Brioches le Boulangere (2003), then onwards towards Bouygues Telecom, BBox, Europcar and finally today with Total Direct Energie and just perhaps Peter Sagan & Co in 2022 ?
Sponsors were Bonjour (home improvement chain), groupsets were Shimano, framesets by Time (one of the first monocoque carbon framesets) ... as an aside Tom Boonen (QuickStep) rode the highly desirable Time carbon framesets in the 2006 season. In the fashion stakes the French blue team kit was a real stunner (yes, even you would look good in this classy French team kit)
The team itself was based in the Vendee heartland of French cycling and it would be a touch unfair to say it was all about Sylvain Chavanel and Thomas Voekler but then again maybe it just was. Chavanel won the Four Days of Dunkirk stage race in 2002 but his more famous career days followed in QuickStep (everyone goes better in QuickStep) and Voekler’s fame went rogue when racing under the Europcar banner at the TdeF. In looking at the team photo it was a real struggle to get past Engoulvent, Geslin, Pineau and Rous as helpers of note. Maybe it was a case of if you looked good you raced good, but then again maybe not
