NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - Ian Grant (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) took the M7 category road race by 2 minutes with Eric Dole 4th & Peter Budd unlucky to suffer a puncture on lap 2.
NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - on the M7 start line with Peter Budd, Ian Grant & Eric Dole. Conditions were cold & damp.
NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - BiciSport Happy Wheels team mates on the M7 road race start line in Eric Dole & Peter Budd
NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - Peter Budd in warm up mode before the M7 road race
NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - Eric Dole in warm up mode before the M7 start
NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - The King of Bensonia (aka Darren Benson) never takes a bad picture even in rural Kurri Kurri in the Masters criterium
NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - The wet and soggy M7 criterium start in Kurri Kurri with Eric Dole, Ian Grant & Peter Budd
NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - conditions were pretty ordinary in the M7 criterium as Peter Budd leads Eric Dole
NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - looking more like a wet Tour of Flanders than the M7 criterium at Kurri Kurri with the roads awash with Peter Budd leading Eric Dole.
NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - Ian Grant (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) took an excellent M7 Bronze medal in the 20k Individual Time Trial in grey and drizzly conditions
NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - Ian Grant approximately 4k to the finish
NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - John Roberts (BiciSport) with 4k to go
NSW Masters Road Championships @ 2-4 Sept - John Roberts
Ride Epic - Broome to Esperance 22 in Western Australia starts today 5 September & includes Marty Wright from BicIsport. Its by any measure one monster trip with 77 ride days and 11 rest days in the 3000 kilometre journey.
Marty’s journey will be followed each week in BiciSport News
BiciSport Griffith @ 3 Sept … L to R … Roger Thompson Seagrave, Frank Signor & Tony Jones
BiciSport Griffith @ 3 Sept - Albert Ravanello in a sea of canola
NSW TRACK PROGRAM NOW LISTED ON THE CALENDAR SECTION
The NSW (summer) Velodrome program for 2022-23 is now posted on the calendar section of this website.
EVENTS GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN ? ?
Its never easy to admit that a prestige event won’t be happening in 2023 but the “expired events list” in 2023 looks like including the E’tape Cyclosportive, the Cadel Evans RR (and mid week supporting events) plus potentially the historic Herald Sun Tour.
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
From 5 Sept (Week One)
Lanterne Rouge - Broome to Esperance with Marty Wright (BiciSport)
10 Sept
Melbourne Bike Show (Vic)
Oakville Road Race (Parramatta)
11 Sept
Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters)
West Head Road Race (Manly CC)
Amy Gillett Gran Fondo (Lorne, Vic)
12-17 Sept
Masters National Road & CycloCross Championships (Wollongong)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES
Tues 6 Sept
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 8 Sept
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 10 Sept
Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
World Road Championships @ Wollongong - A comprehensive BiciSport review of the Championships plus where to view & how to get around is listed in the Special Events section of this website
Italian Professional Road Championship - a highly coveted jersey in World cycling is the Italian Champions jersey …. commencing with Paolo Bettini (QuickStep) in 2003 & 2006
The Italian Championships started in 1906. Giradengo won 9 Championships, Guerra won 5, Binda & Coppi 4 each with multiple winners in Nibali, Visconti, Bettini, Commesso, Podenzana & Bugno
Gianni Bugno - 1991 & 1995
Gio Visconti - 2007, 2010 & 2011
Massimo Podenzana - 1993 & 1994
Giorgio Furlan - 1990