News Shorts - 8 May

BiciSport @ Kosciusko National Park near Cabramurra @ 1 May - BiciSport’s Marty Wright & Dudley Hoskin ventured into “Bear Grylls Territory” with gravel roads, local wildlife & campside accommodation. Congratulations guys and it makes Paris Roubaix look like a cruise. Marty Wright is pictured above.

BiciSport @ Kosciusko National Park near Cabramurra @ 1 May

BiciSport @ Kosciusko National Park near Cabramurra @ 1 May

BiciSport @ Kosciusko National Park near Cabramurra @ 1 May

BiciSport Belgium @ East Flanders Road Race @ 1 May - Koen VerHulst (BiciSport Belgium) on the start line

RACE SEEKER - THIS WEEK

  • 8 May

    • Compass ITT Series @ Eastern Creek (Camden CC)

  • 13 May

    • AusCycling AGM

  • 14 May

    • NSW Cyclo Cross Series (Heffron Park, NSW)

    • Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters)

    • West Head Road Race (Manly CC)

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 9 May & Thurs 11 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

  • Thurs 11 May

    • Belgian Waffle Ride @ Centennial Park @ Spruce Goose Cafe @ 10.30am for Park laps

  • Sat 13 May

    • Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am

Dauphine Tour & Plane Flight & Bordeaux Paris & Mauberge Criterium @ 1965 - Jacques Anquetil (Ford France) left pictured with Raymond Poulidor (BP) & Rik Van Looy (Solo)

The Jacques Anquetil story runs thus … In a single 11 day period Master Jacques won the 8 day Dauphine Tour, rode the 557k Bordeaux Paris behind a motorized derny then raced the Mauberge Pro Criterium. It was no surprise that Jacques was famous for calling UCI drug tests “an invasion of personal liberty”.

Jacques won the Dauphine Tour, then 2 hours later caught the flight from Nimes to Bordeaux for the 557k Bordeaux race. The plane flight was organised by the French President Charles de Gaulle.

Jacques won Bordeaux Paris by just 57 seconds over his team mate Jean Stablinski with Tom Simpson third. The very next day Jacques drove to northern France to compete in the Mauberge pro criterium.

Dauphine Tour & Plane Flight & Bordeaux Paris & Mauberge Criterium @ 1965 - Jacques aboard the French President sponsored flight from Nimes

Dauphine Tour & Plane Flight & Bordeaux Paris & Mauberge Criterium @ 1965 - departing the Nimes flight at Bordeaux

Dauphine Tour & Plane Flight & Bordeaux Paris & Mauberge Criterium @ 1965

Jacques wins Bordeaux Paris at the Vincennes Velodrome in Paris with his two derny drivers (the last 300k was paced behind the motorised derny). The second derny was a spare should the first derny break down.

Dauphine Tour & Plane Flight & Bordeaux Paris & Mauberge Criterium @ 1965 - Jacques behind the team derny with the spare derny in reserve

Dauphine Tour & Plane Flight & Bordeaux Paris & Mauberge Criterium @ 1965 - Jacques behind the team derny during Bordeaux Paris