BiciSport @ Tirenno Adriatico Pro Tour @ 10 Mar - Mike Lawson (BiciSport - white helmet) with the Italian tifosi (or fans) at the stage finish at Sassetteto. Conditions were best described as BLEAK in Italy (the stage in the Paris Nice race was cancelled due to the same awful weather system). The wind was that strong Mike’s glasses were blown off his face !, and riding a bike was virtually impossible. At one point some 400m from the stage finish Mike was blown to a standstill. Mike also experienced heavy rain & hail. .
BiciSport @ Tirenno Adriatico Pro Tour @ 10 Mar - bleak conditions at Tirenno
BiciSport @ Castorano @ 9 Mar - Mike Lawson’s view from his apartment near Siena
Heffron Park Tuesday Criteriums @ 7 Mar - Rolly Delaytz (far right - BiciSport Happy Wheels) takes first in B grade, with A grade taking the overall
Heffron Park Tuesday Criteriums @ 7 Mar - Rolly Delaytz (BiciSport Happy Wheels) hits the repeat button for a Tuesday night B grade victory
West Head Road Race @ 12 Mar - David Munro on the left (BiciSport Pilu Racing)
Carcoar @ Blayney Gravel @ 12 Mar - Marty Wright (BiciSport) centre of picture
Carcoar @ Blayney Gravel @ 12 Mar - Marty Wright
RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK
14 Mar
Heffron Park Tuesday Night Criteriums @ 6pm
Summer Series concludes 28 Mar
14 Mar-26 Apr
BiciSport to the Belgian Spring Classics
17-19 Mar
NSW Masters Track Champs (DGV)
BiciSport starters Jeremy Hopson, Davide Browne, John Robb
19 Mar
Eastern Creek Dragway (Waratah Masters)
Velle Junior Race (Antwerp, Belgium) sponsored by BiciSport
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 14 Mar & Thurs 16 Mar
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 16 Mar
Belgian Waffle Ride @ Centennial Park @ Spruce Goose Cafe @ 10.30am for Park laps
Sat 18 Mar
Odd Spoke Criteriums @ Eastern Creek Raceway @ 6.45am
Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
Belgian Spring Classes 2023 @ 9 Mar - the Patersberg climb @ 9 Mar just 5k from Oudenaarde …..
Belgian Spring Classes 2023 @ 9 Mar - the BiciSport Service Course is at www.kokerelle.be (picture above taken @ 9 Mar). The swimming pool can wait until August ….
Belgian Spring Classes 2023 - another bbrrrr pic from the Kokerelle AirBnB towards the front garden @ 9 Mar. Even Santa’s little elf looks cold.
BiciSport to the Belgian Spring Classics 2023
In 2023 the Belgian Spring Classic program is detailed below with weekly updates in BiciSport News on this website or on the BiciSport Sydney Facebook page.
March
15 - Nokere Kourse (Belgium)
18 - Dwars Vlaanderen Cyclosportive, Velle Antwerp 55k Junior Race sponsored by BiciSport
24 - E3 Classic, 25 - Ghent Wevelgem CycoSportive, 26 - Ghent Wevelgem Classic
29 - Dwars Vlaanderen Classic
April
1 - Tour of Flanders CycloSportive, 2 - Tour of Flanders Classic
8 - Paris Roubaix CycloSportive (France), 9 - Paris Roubaix Classic
12 - Brabant Arrow Classic, 15 - Amstel Gold CycloSportive (Netherlands)
16 - Amstel Gold Classic (Neth), 19 - Fleche Walloon Classic, 23 - Liege Bastogne Liege Classic
For the Belgian Spring Classics the “Wednesday” professional races are typically “semi Classics” whilst the weekend races are generally full status Classics.
The first Wednesday race being the Nokere Kourse on 15 March starting in Deinze with the opening loop through Gavere, back towards Oudenaarde, up the Wolvenberg climb, across the Holleweg cobbles near Mater (just about every race in Flanders hits the Holleweg cobbles at some point) to finish with 4 local laps in the small village of Nokere
The BiciSport accommodation is at the tiny hamlet of Etikhove (Maarke Kerkem) which is close to the Wolvenberg climb (see above, map towards the right)
BiciSport is a co-sponsor to the Velle Junior Road Race over 55k on 19 March near Antwerp
BiciSport Velle (Belgium) Junior Race over 55k attracted 100 starters in 2022 (start line picture above).
The next edition is Sunday 19 March 2023 and again in Velle.
