Southern Cross Criteriums @ 15 May - Craig Pager (BiciSport Happy Wheels) took 2nd in the C grade criterium @ Waratah Park
Southern Cross Criteriums @ 15 May - Craig Pager and the Merckx 525.
‘525’ celebrates the number of professional victories by Eddy Merckx
Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters) @ 15 May - Peter Verhoeven (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) on the A2 grade start line
Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters) @ 15 May - the ECR finishing straight serves as the warm up zone as the 6.45am start time approaches. This was the last Sunday ECR event before the winter recess and racing resumes at ECR in September
Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters) @ 15 May - ECR was foggy at 6.30am but temperatures were nearly 20 degrees
Happy Wheels Waterloo @ 13 May - Rolly Delaytz atop his latest MTB purchase from Happy Wheels. The “Messina Ice Cream” socks were a nice touch
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
22 May
Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)
Mt Ku Ring Gai Criteriums (North Sydney)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES
Tues 17 May
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
Wed 18 May
Belgian Waffle Ride @ Centennial Park @ Spruce Goose Cafe @ 10.30am for Park laps
Thurs 19 May
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 21 May
Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
Pelforth-Sauvage-Lejeune Pro Cycling Team (France) - 1960-68
A classic French team as the picture above at the 1967 Tour de France suggests (when was the last time you wore a suit & tie to a coffee shop at the Tour de France !). Pelforth was French beer and Lejeune supplied the French bikes. Pelforth team manager was Maurice De Muer who later moved onto the Peugeot-BP team in the 1970’s.
A classy Pelforth grupetto with Jan Janssen (Netherlands) the stand out lead act. Janssen’s best years were 1967 & 68 when he won the Tour of Spain, Paris Roubaix, World Road Championships & Tour de France plus the Antwerp 6 Day track race for good measure (assuming here it wasn’t a well paid & pre-arranged gift). Janssen’s career came to a sudden halt when one Eddy Merckx came along and that was that. Other team mates were also very gifted - Jose Samyn won a stage in the 1967 Tour de France, Jean Marie Leblanc went on to being the Tour de France Race Director for several years, Johny Schleck (father of the Schleck brothers) the Groussard brothers, the Guyot brothers & Willy Monty.
Pelforth riders assist in helping themselves at a road side stop at the Tour de France
Pelforth rider climbs the Stelvio climb through the snow at the Tour of Italy
Jan Janssen (centre) with team mate Bernard Guyot to the right. Herman Van Springel (Mann Grundig) is far right
Jan Janssen (left) at Paris Roubaix Classic 1967
Pelforth at the Tour de France