AusCycling National Cyclo Cross Series @ Adelaide @ 4 June - Mike Lawson (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) took the win in the M9 Category
Waratah Masters Lansdowne Park @ 5 June - Ian Grant (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) took the win in A2 grade
Parramatta Interclub @ Oakville @ 4 June - Ian Grant (left) finished 4th in the A+B Grade combined handicap at Oakville. Peter Milostic took the win.
Parramatta Interclub @ Oakville @ 4 June - Ian Grant (left) & Peter Verhoeven (BiciSport Anytime Fitness)
Griffith BiciSport @ 5 May - an early Sunday morning (freezing) dash around the outskirts of Griffith (L to R) - Max Kopp, Melissa Budd, Frank Signor, Peter Budd, Grantley Hodge, Mike O’Reilly & Roger Thompson-Seagrave
Barellan @ 4 June - on the way to Griffith, through the original home of Yvonne Goolagong
Giro 22 - Stage 19
BiciSport Special Events now resets towards 9 July at the Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre Sydney Championships.
With the NSW calendar in something of a winter recess over the coming weeks the next major get together is at the Sydney Champs at Penrith on Saturday 9 July. But this is the calm before the Spring Storm when everything comes in a mad rush towards Wollongong in late September then it continues into October with the Singleton TTT & Bowral Classic
The following Special Events listing (below) has more detail in the Special Events section of this BiciSport website & hope to see you there.
July 9 - Sydney Road Championships @ Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre
Aug 28 - BiciSport Team Time Trial Training commences @ Terrey Hills
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
Penrith Lakes Regatta Centre @ 26 May - the heavy Sydney floods during the summer has resulted in major roadworks that are still being rectified
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
12 June
Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES
Tues 7 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 9 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 11 June
Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
Vini Caldirola Cycling Team (Italy) - 1998-2004
Vini Caldirola was a wine company with numerous secondary sponsors. De Rosa was the bike supplier. In 2005 the sponsorship moved onto Liquigas who sponsored the team for several years.
The team itself won numerous races at both Grand Tours & one day Classics - Francesco Casagrande was the major “notable” pictured above and Casa finished 2nd in the 2000 Tour of Italy (plus won the King of the Mountains) and prided himself on riding heavy gears at nearly every opportunity.
Romain Vainsteins hit a well known “sweet spot” of form in winning the 2000 World Road Championships and reached the podium at both the 2000 Milan San Remo & Flanders Classics. The likes of Mauro Gianneti was well past his career best but the team appeared loaded with “sweet spot” notables of that dubious era - Stefano Garzelli, Pavel Tonkov, Sergy Honchar, Nicola Minali, Dario Frigo & Gianluca Bortalami. If any team typified the era that was an alternate universe then this was most certainly it.
Casagrande at the Giro on top of a delightful De Rosa
Casagrande wins again
Casagrande at the 2000 Giro on a mountain stage
