Codemo Machinery Services are proud to sponsor BiciSport to the Tour of Bright 2025

2025 BiciSport Team accomodation is at 5 Hargraves Rd, Bright

Tour website : www.tourofbright.com.au

• TOB 25 - BiciSport race dates

  • Race dates - 5-6-7 December 2025

    • TOB 25 is technically just two days (Sat & Sun) with a separate inner city twilight criterium on the Friday night (5 December) before in central Bright … so an optional criterium on the Friday night then the main event being TOB 25 over the Saturday & Sunday

• Weather Forecast

  • TBA

• Bright Training Rides - contact MOR on 0417 403 244

  • Training rides all start from the BiciSport House

    • Thurs - Wandiligong @ 4.00pm

    • Fri

      • 10.00am - for Buckland Valley ITT recce

      • 3.30pm - Team Meeting @ Hargraves House

      • 4.00pm - Team photo @ Hargraves House

    • Sat - No ride

    • Sun - No ride

    • Mon - 10.30am for Harrietville via Bike Path

    • Tues - 9.30am for Buckland Valley

• Racing in Bright

  • Riders need to attach a static tail light for all stages

  • No spares vehicles are provided during any stage - riders need to carry their own spares

  • Saturday Road Race has Feed Zones near Tawonga

• Friday

  • Team photo is at the Hargraves House @ 4.00pm

  • Friday Night Criterium in Bright town centre (optional)

    • 5.00pm - Junior race

    • 6.00pm - Div 2

    • 7.10pm - Div 1

  Saturday

  • Tour Stage 1 is an early Saturday morning road stage over 92k (finishing atop Tawonga Gap).

  • Stage 2 - a Saturday afternoon Individual Time Trial over 17.5k in the nearby Buckland Valley

    • Stage 1 … Masters 6+ - Holland & Grant @ 8.05am (ETA = 10.30am)

    • Stage 1 … Masters C - Pager @ 7.45am (ETA = 10.00am)

      • stage time benchmark 2 hrs 40 min + 25 minute peloton envelope

    • Stage 2 … ITT at Buckland Valley - Start sequence

      • start Egglestones Lane, down to the bridge and finishing back at Harris Lane

        • Craig Pager = 2.58pm

        • Steve Holland = 3.21pm

        • Ian Grant = 3.22pm

      • Sequence - Mens B, Masters B, Men C, Masters C, Masters 6+, Wom B, Wom C, Wom A, Masters A, Elite A

• Sunday

  • Stage 3 is a short sharp Bright-Mt Buffallo Road stage on the Sunday morning

  • Start times - Masters 6+ 7.15am - Ian Grant & Steve Holland , Wom A 7.25am, Wom B 7.35am, Wom C 7.45am, Masters A 8.00am, Men B 8.10am, Masters B 8.20am, Men A 8.30am, Men C 8.40am, Masters C 8.50am - Pager

• Hargraves Team House

  • Lawson, Hoskin/Wright, Benson, Holland/Pager, Figg, Cooke, Fox

  • MOR (D - from Thurs), Grant, Signor

• Team personnel + roof racks

  • O’Reilly (Manager). Figg (Soigneur), Signor (Soigneur), Cooke (Driver)

    Accommodation

    • 5 Hargraves Rd Bright

      • Thurs in, Tues out

Dinners :

• Sat - Star Hotel - @ 7.00pm

• Sun

  • Presentations 3.00pm @ Bright Brewery, Hargraves House + Pannatone Award @ 6.00pm

• BiciSport contact : Mike O’Reilly on 0417 403 244

Friday Twilight Criterium - see maps below

Tour stages 1 & 3 - start at the Bright Tennis Club Oval on Coronation Ave Bright (just a 5 minute pedal from the Bright town centre) - see maps below

Enter via Gate 1 and head for parking zone 3 & 4

Bright Friday Twilight Criterium - a separate race to the ToB 24 this Friday twilight crit is really unique & entries open 9 September 2024

Stage 1 - Gaps Loop Road Race Bright to Tawonga Gap @ 93k

Ride to the start. then a flat stage profile out of Bright towards Ovens village. Turning right at Ovens village its along an undulating valley to the Rosemount climb, then descending into the Kiewa Valley. Turn right along the flat Kiewa Valley, again turning right at Mt Beauty, then finishing atop the Tawonga Gap climb for the 93k.

Some riders prefer the neutral cool down ride back into Bright before the afternoon ITT @ 2pm. BiciSport rider support will be located at both the stage finish at Tawonga Gap finish and the ITT finish.

Stage 2 - An individual time trial over 17.5k in the Buckland Valley

Start Egglestones Lane then finish Harris Lane on the Buckland Valley Road just 5k from Bright.

Don’t forget your tail lights !.

Discussion points

Process Goals, Results Goals

Pre Circuit checks

pothole checks (all circuits), Feed Zones support tbc, team clothing, ITT loaner bikes & equipment, support cars with roof racks, Flanders tent, team accessories

Race start protocols

Agreed pre start timings sequences posted on team car & team marquee

Spare wheels for MOR

Efforts - nothing heavy on Thursday or Friday

Strategies - Field of Play, Break formations, Rosewhite - 3 levels then veer right, Sprint and/or KOM options, Sprint locales

Start Times - Pre start roll out, Team accom to start line timings (RR - 15 min, ITT - 20 min), Sign On, Spares Vehicles (no), Littering, Race Flashing Lights, Presentations