Tour website : www.tourofbright.com.au

• BiciSport accommodation & race dates

  • Race dates - 30 Nov-1 Dec 2024

• Weather Forecast

  • tbc

• Bright Training Rides - contact MOR on 0417 403 244

  • Long & short teams, team clothing, ITT equipment, support cars & roof racks, Feed zones yes/no, Bici membership yes/no, periodisation & peaking yes/no, nothing heavy on Thursday.

  • Start Times & strategies - grade specific, Sign On, Field of Play strategies, Sprint/GC options, Sprint locales, Spares Vehicles, Littering, Race Lights, Presentations

  • Rider Registration @ Bright Velo @ 5.30pm

  • Dinner @ Porepunkah Pub @ 7.00pm

• Racing in Bright

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

  • No spares vehicles are provided during any stage (carry a spare)

• Saturday

  • Race Day 1 is an early Saturday morning road stage over 92k (finishing atop Tawonga Gap) followed by a Saturday afternoon Individual Time Trial over 16k

    • Masters C - Riders tbc @ 7.45am

      • stage time benchmark 3 hrs + a 25 minute peloton envelope

    • Masters 6+ - Riders tbc @ 8.35am

    • Women C - Riders tbc @ 8.15am

    • ITT - Start sequence = Mens B, Masters B, Men C, Masters C, Masters 6+, Wom B, Wom C, Wom A, Masters A, Elite A

• Sunday

  • Race Day 2 is a short sharp Bright-Mt Buffallo Road stage on the Sunday morning

Riders :

• Dudley Accomm

  • Grant (D), Brown (D), Hoskin (S), Holland (S), Dole (S), Wright (S), Pager (S), spare (S)

• MOR Accomm

  • MOR (D), Signor (D), Figg + Robb (D), O’Keefe (tbc)

• Riders racing - tbc

• Team personnel (tbc) : O’Reilly (Manager). Figg (Soigneur), Marina J (HW & Anytime Fitness Soigneur), Robb (Soigneur) , Signor (Soigneur), Brooke G (Soigneur)

  Accommodation

  • MOR Service Course - dates in Wed 27 Nov out Mon 2 Dec 2024 (booked 4 Jan 04)

    • 3 br - 1 = 1 x D, 2 & 3 = ! x D, 1 x Double Bunks + couches

  • Dudley Service Course - dates in Tues 26 Nov/out Wed 4 Dec 2024 (booked 7 Feb 24)

    • 5 br - 2 x double + 3 x 2 singles + couches

Dinners :

• Tues, Wed, Thurs - The Star Hotel/Bistro @ 6.30pm (back area)

• Fri & Sat - Porepunkah Pub - @ 7.00pm

• Sun

  • Presentations 3.00pm @ Bright Brewery, Dudley Service Course + Panatone Award

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

BiciSport will be awarding the Panettone Award in 2024

All ToB stages start at the Bright Tennis Club Oval on Coronation Ave Bright (just a 5 minute pedal from the Bright town centre)

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

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 - Bright-Wandiligong-Bright Time Trial @ 15.8k

Ride to the ITT start. then the course is undulating to flat out from the Bright Tennis Club to the end of the Wandiligong Rd (u turn at the end of the bitumen). There is one short brief climb some 4k from the start going out towards the Wandiligong village.

Stage 3 - Bright-Mt Buffalo Summit Road Stage @ 40k is quality not quantity

Ride to the start. the stage profile is briefly flat out of Bright township, then straight onto the Mt Buffalo climb then finishes @ the top of Mt Buffalo.