News Shorts - 20 October

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - Congratulations to Cath Haines (BiciSport Pilu Racing) who took an outstanding victory at the UCI World Gran Fondo Championships in Lorne. A truly outstanding performance. The picture above is just after the Lorne finish line.

BiciSport started Cath Haines, Matt Coy, Ian Grant, Craig Pager & Sam de Beule.

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - Cath Haines (BiciSport Pilu Racing) UCI World Champion

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - Matt Coy at the start

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - Matt Coy at the finish

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - Sam & Patrick de Beule at the start

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - Sam de Beule at the Lorne start

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - Sam de Beule (right) finish

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - Craig Pager at the Lorne start

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - Craig Pager after the finish

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - Ian Grant (left) after the finish

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - picture by Craig Pager BiciSport

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - Lorne sunrise (picture by Ian Grant BiciSport)

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 19 Oct - a very pretty Lorne at dawn

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 17 Oct - Pre training start at Lorne with Craig Pager, Ian Grant, Patrick de Beule, Sam de Beule & MOR

Marconi Criteriums @ Eastern Creek Dragway @ 14 Oct - David Cooper (BiciSport) went top 10 in a combined C/D grade

RACING THIS WEEK

  • Oct 25

    • Sydney 1000 (Tempe Velodrome)

    • BiciSport Coffee @ Berkelow Cafe Terrey Hills @ 9.30am

  • Oct 26

    • West Head Road Race (Manly CC)

      • West Head flag marshall (MOR)

    • Eastern Creek Raceway (Waratah Masters)

    • Around the Bay in a Day (Melbourne-Queenscliff-Melbourne)

TRAINING RIDES THIS WEEK

Every Mon/Wed/Fri Mornings @ 8.15am

#  Centennial Park Molteni Masters @ Centennial Park - Meet at the corner of Parkes Drive/Grand Drive at 8.15am 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 22 Oct & Thurs 24 Oct

#  Waratah Peloton @ pass the corner of Yulong Ave & McCarrs Creek Rd Terrey Hills

  • Faster group departs @ 7.50am (don’t be late)

  • Slower group departs @ 8.00am (sharp … don’t be late) 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 24 Oct

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

Sat 26 Oct

#  BiciSport Coffee @ Berkelo Cafe @ McCarrs Creek Rd Terrey Hills @ 9.30am

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 18 Oct - Craig Pager, MOR & Ian Grant

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 18 Oct - Team BiciSport with an Aussie cycling legend Clyde Sefton (Munich Olympian & Olympic Road Race Silver medallist)

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 18 Oct - Sam de Beule & MOR (with a Flanders flag in Lorne)

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 17 Oct - a Friday training ride up the first 10k climb out of Lorne with Ian Grant, Craig Pager & Sam de Beule

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 17 Oct - Grant, Pager & de Beule on the first climb

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 17 Oct - Grant, de Beule & Pager on the climb. Conditions were chilly.

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 17 Oct - Craig Pager

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 17 Oct - near the summit of the first climb

UCI Gran Fondo World Championships @ Lorne @ 17 Oct - Sam de Beule beside Ian Grant at the summit of the first climb