Waratah Masters @ Heffron Park @ 10 Sept - Both Craig Pager (left - BiciSport Happy Wheels) and Ian Grant (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) rode well in B grade at Sunday Heffron.
Masters National Championships @ Shepparton Victoria @ 21-24 Sept
Ian Grant (BiciSport Anytime Fitness) & Peter Budd (BiciSport Happy Wheels) will lead the BiciSport team effort at Shepparton. The Individual Time Trial is at Dookie outside Shepparton is on the Thursday but at a somewhat shortened distance of 16k. The road races are again at Dookie over the Friday & Saturday with gentile rolling hills or again comparatively flat. Criteriums are in downtown Shepparton on the Sunday.
Masters National Championships @ Shepparton Victoria @ 21-24 Sept - Peter Budd will be racing at Shepparton
BiciSport Belgium @ 8 Sept - Nick Felix (BiciSport Team Force) takes victory # 4 in Flanders. Nick is in the new “white” version of the Team Force jersey.
BiciSport Belgium @ 8 Sept - Nick Felix (centre - BiciSport Team Force) takes victory # 4 in Flanders
BiciSport Team Force @ Tongeren Belgium @ 25 Aug - The three day Team Force camp was 150k per day and included the Mur de Huy climb (used in the professional Classic in April)
BiciSport Team Force @ Tongeren Belgium @ 25 Aug
BiciSport Team Force @ Tongeren Belgium @ 25 Aug
The BiciSport team ride from Griffith to Melbourne iover 4 days and 550k is 25 to 28 October.
Details are now listed in the BiciSport Special Events section of this website. All welcome
NSW TTT CHAMPIONSHIPS ON 7 OCTOBER, BICISPORT NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN, TEAM TRAINING ON 1 OCTOBER
BiciSport Team Nominations are now open
Training sessions will be held on Sunday 1 October. Meet up is 8.00am at the Hills Nursery carpark Terrey Hills just off Mona Vale Rd. Departure time is 8.30am for Booralie Rd.
Please contact Mike O’Reilly on 0417 403 244
RACE SEEKER
17 Sept
Noosa Rise & Grind Cyclosportive (Qld)
Eastern Creek Dragway (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
Every Tues/Sat/Sun Mornings
Depart Shark Park carpark near Cronulla @ 9.30am for Kurnell & return
Tues 12 Sept & Thurs 14 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 14 Sept
Belgian Waffle Ride @ Spruce Goose Cafe @ Centennial Park @ 10.30am for CP laps
Sat 16 Sept
Coffee @ Sandstone Cafe Miramare Gardens @ 9.30am
Carrera Pro Cycling Team (Italy) - 1984-96
Carrera was Italian jeans with numerous supporting sponsors in Tassoni, Peugeot, Vagabond & Tonello. The Peugeot sponsorship was a hang over courtesy of Stephen Roche. Bikes were originally Battaglin (Italian), then towards the end it morphed into Carrera (again Italian). Group sets were Campagnolo, team shoes were Gaerne (Italian), team clothing was Nalini & drugs were most definitely EPO and lots of it.
Team victories were endless - be it Grand Tours, Classics or World Road Championships. Roberto Visentini won the ‘86 Giro, then Roche won the Grand Triple in ‘87 with Romandie, Giro, Tour & World Road Championships (only Merckx had done that previously). Claudio Chiappucci went podium at the ‘90 Tour de France. Marco Pantani joined the team in 1994 and that was very much a drug fueled journey. The team had more stars than the night sky in Acacio Da Silva, Giovanni Battaglin, Bruno Leali, Urs Zimmermann, Erich Maechler, Guido Bontempi, Rolf Sorenson, Djamolidine Abduzhaparov, Mario Chiesa, Ivan Ghirotto and Fabio Roscioli. Most were named in a 2000 court case regarding EPO use and team history was put in the trash can.
Carrera stopped sponsorship in 1996 and sponsorship then went to the supermarket chain Mercatone Uno in 1997. The Pantani “era” really began in earnest and it all ended tragically for Marco and professional cycling generally. It was a dark period as pro cycling resembled something akin to street theatre blended with athletic karaoke.
Carrera Pro Cycling Team (Italy) - Marco Pantani at the Tour de France
Carrera Pro Cycling Team (Italy) - Claudio Chiappucci (right)
Carrera Pro Cycling Team (Italy) - Claudio Chiappucci
Carrera Pro Cycling Team (Italy) - Stephen Roche
Carrera Pro Cycling Team (Italy) - Roberto Visentini (left), Stephen Roche (in ‘87 Giro Pink Jersey) followed by loyal Belgian team mate Eddy Schepers. Team mates maybe, but friends never
Carrera Pro Cycling Team (Italy)
Carrera Pro Cycling Team (Italy)