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Above- Andrew Weetman demonstrates how to negotiate the sharp turns through the witches hats and looks pretty impressive.  Notice Andy on the drops looking forward to the next turn and not focusing on the front wheel of the current turn.  Looking good Andy !

Ben Elliot goes through the witches hats with Adriano Maradini hot on his tail.

Tom Patton shows how it is done keeping it nice and tight to the witches hats through the turns.  Would look a little nicer on the drops though Tommy.

New member, Alexandra Constantine shows that it is not necessary to have a road bike to have fun doing these skills.

THANK YOU:

Thanks to our Commissaires John Buckton & Tony Horneman.   Thanks to Richard Jenkins who deployed and retrieved all the safety equipment.  Thanks to our safety marshals, Mark Murdoch & others. Thanks to Joanne Buckton who manned the registration table.   Thanks to to First Aid Officer,  RJ from St John. A big get well soon to Freddy Vella who is off resting after an operation and Helen is having a well earned day off to look after Fred. A big thankyou to our Junior Support Co-ordinator Janette Murdoch who with the help of Tanya Bosche arranged a fabulous skills workshop for the juniors. Photos at the bottom of the story

CLUB SPONSORS

Randwick Botany Cycling Club is proudly sponsored by Cheeky Monkey Cycle Company Clovelly Road Centennial Park, Newington Inn – Petersham, DS Labels – Marrackville and   and Velomax Wheel Systems distributed by Excelpro.  We should explain also that whilst club sponsor Velomax Wheel systems is displayed on our club jersey, it is really the Velomax wheel systems Australian distributor Excelpro who actually sponsors us.  We are in fact sponsored by all the products distributed by Excelpro including Argon 18 bicycles,  Colnago bicycles, Velomax wheels systems, 3T cycling assessories, Parentini clothing and Speedplay pedals.

REPORT

A diminished crowd this week as the Ride for Life in Centennial Park in the morning together with the windy conditions and riders resting up prior to the following day's State Team Time Trial Championships at Calga.   Left Matt Lucas takes out the A grade sprint closely followed by Crispin Arnell in second place.  As there were only 2 regular A graders, I graded all B graders up to A grade for the day.  Race Committee take note when you are looking at the handicaps for next week's 2 day tour, Crispin Arnell came second and Clive Hammerson third.

A grade action and Matty Lucas was doing it so easy, he thought to himself, "This is too easy. How can I make this harder? - I know, I'll shut my eyes"

Tony Horneman is a master photographer.  Not only is he able to catch them at the precise millisecond when they close their eyes in the podium shots but now he is able to do it whilst they are racing.

C grade action.  Chris "Dowdie" Dowde keeps an eye out for any breaks off the front.  RBCC Stalwarts Wayne Goold and Shaun Ballesty monitor the action from the back of the peleton.  Congratulations to Xavier Calquhoun, who in his first C grade race, took victory. Xavier, if you are rolling Tony Caruana in sprints, I would be reserving a place in B grade if I were you.

D grade action and Paul Dimitriou drives the bunch.  One thing big Paul is not and that's a "wheel-suck".  Paul will happily sit at the front and drive the bunch for long periods during a race.  Congratulations on your 3rd place Paul.  That's to take nothing away from Michael and Jason with fine first and second placings.  Sorry E grade no action shots of you.  You will have to have stern words to Tony H.

JUNIORS

This week Tanya Bosch ran a skills activities programme for RBCC Juniors and visitors.  It was a great success.  All enjoyed her challenging activities, although would be fair to say that Tom Patton's track stands & bike skills were quite awesome, so we might have to set something a bit more difficult for Tom. 

We had two new riders come along Seamus & Alexandra.  Hope they enjoyed their experience with us.  Tanya will be running a skills workshop every month, next dates 4^th September & 16^th October.  Now that you have had a chance to see how Tanya runs her activities why not ask some of your friends to come along with their bikes, as you saw, they don't necessarily need a road bike.  Here are some photos of the action

This was an exciting duel with the boys restrained to a small area with the aim of riders to make their opponents cross outside the borders.  If you could track stand you had a distinct advantage except if your opponent could too.  Then it became a track standing duel.  Ryan Clarke had another tactic.  Ride around at 20kph and scare everyone out of the square.  Great track standing by Tommy Patton, Adriano Maradini and Matthew Fortuna.

This was a great exercise with two cyclists having to negoitiate the tight turns through the witches hats whilst side by side.  Left Taylor Weetman and new member Shamus Dowde show how it is done.

left Emma Jones and Andy Weetman get pretty close as all the riders had to cross each other through the two witches hats.  There was no margin for error.

Emma and Shamus duel it out trying to get each other to run wide and out of the field of play.  In the end this particular match was a draw.  Congratulations Emma and Shamus.

Taylor Weetman, like Ryan Clarke, had a unique approach to this particular activity.  Taylor used a few intimidatory tricks. Here she goes "head to head" with her brother Matthew.  Matthew has put a foot down and is "out".

MORE INFORMATION

Randwick Botany Cycling Club conducts racing at Heffron Park, Maroubra NSW each Saturday throughout the year.  Juniors start at 12.30pm and Seniors D & E Grade at 2.00pm and A, B & C grade at 3pm.  For more information please contact the club secretary Helen Vella on 02 9667 3307 or email: secretary@randwickbotanycc.com

Race report by John Buckton

Web page layout & editing by: John Buckton

Photos:  Tony Horneman (Seniors), John Buckton (Juniors)

Contact:
Tony:  communications@randwickbotanycc.com

John:   webmaster@randwickbotanycc.com