Heffron Park @ 13 Aug - Craig Pager (BiciSport Happy Wheels) went top 10 in Division 3
Sydney Dragway @ Eastern Creek @ 14 Aug - L to R … Peter Verhoeven, Ian Grant & Eric Dole
Sydney Dragway @ Eastern Creek @ 14 Aug - Peter Verhoeven (BiciSport Anytime Fitness)
Sydney Dragway @ Eastern Creek @ 14 Aug - Congratulations to Waratah Masters for rebirthing criterium racing at the Dragway.
Pictured above is Ian Grant, Peter Verhoeven & Eric Dole facing the starters pistol in A2 grade. The new criterium circuit uses the large carpark at the Dragway with several 90 degree turns, a few slight rises and from reports an exciting & challenging criterium course. A2 grade had 18 starters & Eric finished 7th
Victorian Cyclo Cross @ Beechworth (Vic) @ 13-14 Aug - Mike Lawson (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) continues to chase the Victorian State series
BiciSport in Belgium @ 12 Aug - Two Masters races on the Velle Friday night program over 40k & 65k passing the somewhat infamous pub called The Falcon where many Aussie cyclists have entered sober and exited somewhat less so. Both Masters races attracted 60+ starters and racing and beer drinking was furious. The bigger race on the Velle program (sponsored by BiciSport) is next Tuesday 16 August.
BiciSport in Belgium @ 12 Aug - Star attraction at Velle was the local legend Guy Smet who won a staggering 400+ amateur UCI races but never turned professional. Rumour had it he made more money as an “amateur” than signing a professional contract. Now nearly 50 years old the grand old man of Flanders cycling cut a great look as he passed The Falcon. No disc brakes for this Flandrien.
BiciSport in Belgium @ 12 Aug - The Falcon pub crowd in Velle spills on to the street … the cycle race was great but where is the Duvel beer …
BiciSport in Belgium @ 12 Aug - to have this much fun at a bike race does convince one self that am indeed a Belgian by birth but was kidnapped at The Falcon and packed off to Australia … this feels like home with MO’R in front of his ancestral birthplace.
BiciSport in Belgium @ 10 Aug - Circuit Franco Belge is a mid week (Wednesday) semi classic and as the name implies the race hugs the French Belgian border and over the years has positioned itself as a sprinters race, so generally flattish with a few nasty bergs tossed in for the opportunists. Caleb Ewen (for Lotto), Alex Kristoff (Wanty) and maybe Greg van Avermatt (Citroen), or a Victor Campernants were the favourites. Kristoff took the win in a cracker of a ride.
A short 30 minute drive from Oudenaarde to the Tournai start (near the French border) and a great service corse with the spectators given the freedom to roam amongst the bikes & team cars & buses. For the purists some teams were on 25c tyres but several were on 28c tyre set ups.
BiciSport in Belgium @ 10 Aug - Circuit Franco Belge and the Team Lotto Soudal service course at the Tournai start. Conditions were hot.
BiciSport in Belgium @ 10 Aug - Circuit Franco Belge and Caleb Ewen had signed on and returning to the Lotto team bus
BiciSport in Belgium @ 10 Aug - Circuit Franco Belge and Alex Kristoff returning to the Wanty team bus after sign on. Kristoff would take the win.
BiciSport in Belgium @ 10 Aug - Circuit Franco Belge and the Quick Step team car loaded with a smorgasbord of Specialised S Works
BiciSport in Belgium @ 10 Aug - Circuit Franco Belge and the peloton lines up for the hot 1pm start in the Tournai main square. Conditions were hot for the 180k race to the finish at La Louviere
Walter Planckaert won the Tour of Flanders classic in 1976 and a legend in Flanders cycling
BiciSport in Belgium @ 10 Aug - At the Circuit Franco Belge start and Walter Planckaert (left) now runs the Baloise Belgian team. Walter won a Tour of Flanders and the other guy couldn’t win B grade at West Head
BiciSport in Belgium @ 14 Aug - At the rear patio at the Tour of Flanders Museum in Oudenaarde is a quiet spot for a coffee … until the Belgian Boogie Boys appear around the corner singing Dance Monkey
BiciSport in Belgium @ 14 Aug - Belgian Boogie Boys strut their stuff with Dance Monkey
BiciSport in Belgium @ 14 Aug - at the same Tour of Flanders Museum and after Dance Monkey then along came … this with classic Opera music …
BiciSport proudly sponsors an Elite race in Velle (near Antwerp) on 16 August. The race for Elites is over 119k
NATIONAL MASTERS ROAD & CYCLOCROSS 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
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
16 Aug
Velle Elite Race (Belgium) sponsored by BiciSport
20 Aug
Great Divide Open (Goulburn CC)
21 Aug
Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES
Tues 17 August
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 19 August
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 20 August
Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
GBC-Sony-Zimba Pro Cycling Team (Italy) - 1963-77
Sponsorship was GBC (manufactured televisions), Sony (electrical appliances) with sub sponsors in Wega (coffee), Zimba & Furzi did the framsets. Team manager was Franco Cribiori.
A long time Italian team sponsor for 14 years but they really didn’t win much. They had 8 starts at the Tour of Italy but only won one stage, so successes were few & far between.
Team riders were Wladmiro Panizza (had a great career after GBC), Rudi Altig (future World Pro World Champion riding for Molteni), Eric Spahn, Enzo Cardi (track specialist), Aldo & Diego Moser and Dino Zandegu (a podium at the Tour of Flanders).
GBC-Sony at the Tour of Italy
GBC team rider (bottom left) climbing the Dolomites at the Giro
GBC-Sony Team Presentation