Eastern Creek Raceway @ 10 Apr - Stew Campbell (BiciSport Happy Wheels) takes a B grade victory
BiciSport Report on Paris Roubaix 23 @ 9 Apr - Just over a two hour drive down the A1 Motorway in heavy fog for a 9am arrival in Compiegne. Crowds were building in Compiegne and took up position under the start banner at 9.30am and waited.
Plans were to then hit zone 6 but police road closures near Orchies thwarted that idea and we settled for zone 15 by sheer accident (we really had no choice). Talk about good luck as the police had set the road closures kilometres away in the middle of nowhere & then along came the salvation in dear old zone 15. Zone 15 came with its own bustling street party, a big tv screen, food, local produce and a band & seemingly endless beer, The French crowd was all for Van Aert but the victory went to VdP.
Paris Roubaix 23 @ 9 Apr - Compiegne start line (Wout van Aert in yellow jersey)
Paris Roubaix 23 @ 9 Apr - Zone 15 street party was left of picture in a local farmers paddock …. and it went off
Paris Roubaix 23 @ 9 Apr - The zone 15 street party had a must see TV screen & seats were provided
Paris Roubaix 23 @ 9 Apr - The zone 15 street party came with live music
Paris Roubaix 23 @ 9 Apr - VdP followed by Delkenlob & Ganna through the Zone 15 Feed Zone
Paris Roubaix 23 @ 9 Apr - Wout van Aert through the Zone 15 Feed Zone with VdP just behind
Paris Roubaix CycloSportive @ 8 Apr - Mike Lawson (BiciSport) before the start of the PR CycloSportive on the Saturday near the Roubaix Velodrome
Paris Roubaix 23 @ 8 Apr - The latest Eddy Merckx monument unveiled at the Camphin-en-Pevele cobbles just before this edition of Hell and 20k from the finish at the Roubaix Velodrome
Paris Roubaix 23 @ 8 Apr - on the Wannehain pave @ zone 6
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
10 Apr - 24 Apr
BiciSport to the Belgian Spring Classics
13-16 Apr
National Masters Track Championships (Brisbane)
15 Apr
Glen Innes Gravel
16 Apr
Mail Run CycloSportive (Singleton, NSW)
West Head Road Race (Manly)
Hayman Gravel Classic (ACT)
Lansdowne Park (Waratah Masters)
BICISPORT TRAINING RIDES
Every Mon/Wed/Fri Mornings
Centennial Park Masters @ Centennial Park
Meet at the corner of Parkes Drive/Grand Drive at 8.30am and do CP laps until 9.30am then coffee at Spruce Goose Cafe
Tues 11 Apr & Thurs 13 Apr
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 13 Apr
Belgian Waffle Ride @ Centennial Park @ Spruce Goose Cafe @ 10.30am for Park laps
Sat 15 Apr
Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
Paris Roubaix Training Day (Thursday) @ 6 Apr - Wout van Aert has completed his training effort at the Roubaix Velodrome. Conditions were cold & damp on the Thursday with light drizzle making the pave both slippery & dangerous.
Paris Roubaix Training Day (Thursday) @ 6 Apr - A very dirty Team Wanty rider jumping into the Wanty team bus after finishing at Carrefour
Paris Roubaix Training Day (Thursday) @ 6 Apr - AG2R on the Carrefour pave
Paris Roubaix Training Day (Thursday) @ 6 Apr - No putting your mouth to that gift from the Wanty Sports Director …. at the Carrefour pave with the L’Arbre Hotel in the background (right)
Amstel Gold Race starts in Maastricht then morphs into the worlds hilliest criterium over some 260k.
Lets not talk about the endless corners, countless traffic furniture and general road calming devices !. Most climbs and connect roads are traversed several times and in the opposite direction to the first pass. The finish is in Valkenberg (only 15 minutes by train from the Maastricht start).
Despite racing on rural laneways it’s not the easiest race to follow in a car or on a bike. A case of getting to Valkenberg and watch them come past a few times then head to a local cafe with a TV and a beer.