Lansdowne Park @ Waratah Masters @ 12 June - Peter Verhoeven (left) & Ian Grant (BiciSport Anytime Fitness). Both rode well in A2 grade.
Lansdowne Park @ Waratah Masters @ 12 June - Ian Grant
Lansdowne Park @ Waratah Masters @ 12 June - Peter Verhoeven
Lansdowne Park @ Waratah Masters @ 12 June - Ian Grant
Lansdowne Park @ Waratah Masters @ 12 June - Peter Verhoeven
Lansdowne Park @ Waratah Masters @ 12 June - Peter Verhoeven (second wheel) & Ian Grant (fourth wheel) in A2 grade
Sydney Cold Snap versus Giro 88 - Yes, its freezing but the next time your toes fall off going around Akuna Bay or Griffith think of poor Franco Chiccolli (pictured above) climbing the Gavia Pass in the 1988 Giro in a snow blizzard.
Note that Franco is using Campagnolo Delta brakes that were notorious for 1. looking great 2. simply not working ! … Franco is lucky he didn’t sail straight through Bormio at the stage finish and end up in deep darkest Austria
Its not official just yet but the Sydney Championships have quietly disappeared off the AusC Events calendar so its a fair statement to make that the Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre Sydney Championships have been CANCELLED due to ongoing roadworks stemming from the recent summer floods in Sydney. No news yet on a replacement venue but watch this space.
With the NSW calendar in something of a winter recess over the coming weeks the next major get together is at the NSW Masters State Championships in Singleton in early September but this is the calm before the Spring Storm when everything comes in a mad rush towards Wollongong in late September then continues into October with the Singleton TTT, Bowral Classic & Tour of Bright in Victoria
The following Special Events listing (below) has more detail in the Special Events section of this BiciSport website & hope to see you there.
Aug 28 - BiciSport Team Time Trial Training
Sept 2-4 - NSW Masters Road Champs @ Singleton
Sept 12-26 - National Masters Road Champs & World Elite Road Champs @ Wollongong
Oct 8-9 - NSW Teams Time Trials @ Singleton
Oct 15-16 - Bowral Classic @ Bowral
Dec 2-4 - Tour of Bright @ Bright, Vic
BELGIAN WAFFLE RIDE IN CENTENNIAL PARK REVERTS TO A THURSDAY
The BiciSport gruppeto tried Wednesday, but have now reverted back to a Thursday @ 10.30am from the Spruce Goose Cafe in the centre of the Park. All welcome.
NATIONAL MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS - WOLLONGONG DATES & COURSES ANNOUNCED
Details of the National Masters Road Championships in Wollongong are now posted in the Special Events section of this website
EASTERN CREEK RACEWAY RACING NOW IN WINTER RECESS UNTIL SEPTEMBER
Waratah Masters now focus on Lansdowne Park & Heffron Park during the Winter 22 recess. So see you at ECR in early September
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
18 June
Oakville Road Race Handicap (Parramatta CC)
18-19 June
Tamworth Weekend
19 June
Heffron Park (Waratah Masters)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES
Tues 14 June
Waratah Peloton @ pass the corner of Yulong Ave & McCarrs Creek Rd Terrey Hills @ 8.00am 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
Thurs 16 June
Belgian Waffle Ride @ Centennial Park @ Spruce Goose Cafe @ 10.30am for Park laps
Waratah Peloton @ pass the corner of Yulong Ave & McCarrs Creek Rd Terrey Hills @ 8.00am 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 18 June
Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
Jacques Pro Cycling Team (Belgium) - 2004-07
Belgian to the core and nothing beats Belgian chocolate except maybe Belgian beer. Antoine Jacques was a chocolate maker based in Verviers Belgium. Bikes were Eddy Merckx (that’s a surprise, not). Sub sponsors were T-Interim (mobile phones) and Capri Sonne (soft drinks). Clothing was Vermarc (also Belgian).
Team managers were Roger Swerts (ex team mate of Eddy Merckx), Walter Planckaert (legendary ex pro) plus Christophe Sercu.
Team riders were a classy lot. Nico Eeckhout won numerous events (mostly Belgian), Matt Gilmore & IIjo Keisse featured on the velodrome, then Kevin Van Impe, Jens Koerts plus Dave Bruylandts were prominent on the road. Bruylandts was certainly prominent and enjoyed more than just Belgian beer & chocolate and did get caught for doping with EPO which ended that career quicker than it takes to neck a Duvel beer.
IIjo Keise moved onto Quick Step from Jacques and retires at the end of 2022 at the Gent 6 on the t’Kuipe Velodrome in his hometown.
Nico Eeckhout won the Belgian Road Championship in 2006 in driving rain in Antwerp and went by the nickname of “Bulldog”
