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SENIORS
A/B Grade,
32km
1 Sean Bloch (Randwick
Botany / FRF Couriers), 48.45 (Average speed 39.8kph)
2 Matthew Lucas (Randwick
Botany / FRF Couriers)
3 Frank Fortuna (Randwick
Botany / FRF Couriers)
4 Warrick Goldsmith (Randwick
Botany / FRF Couriers)
Grade, 28km
1 Rodney Mendes (Eastern
Suburbs), 44.20
2 Richard Lang (Colnago /
Caravello)
3 Roy Gruenpetes (Sydney)
D Grade, 20km
1 George Tragaris
(Sydney), 34.16
2 Glen Devine (Randwick
Botany / FRF Couriers)
3 Peter Davison (Randwick
Botany / FRF Couriers)
E Grade, 16km
1 Aaron Francey (Randwick
Botany / FRF Couriers), 31.28
2 Jonathon Fowler
(Dulwich Hill)
3 Alberto Bracco
(Waratah Veterans) (not pictured)
JUNIORS
Juniors results
click here
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THANK YOU:
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Thanks to Commissaire
Helen Vella & Joanne Buckton.
Thanks to our marshals Greg Smart and others. Thanks to
Fred Vella for deploying and retrieving all the safety equipment.
Thanks to Anna Fortuna for manning the canteen. Thanks to Leeann Emery for being our First Aid Officer.
Left I give the riders a few updates on the start line and
test our new PA system. Works great! |
CLUB SPONSORS
Randwick Botany Cycling Club is proudly
sponsored by FRF Couriers, parent company
of Excelpro.
Excelpro is the distributor of products
including Argon 18 bicycles, Colnago bicycles,
3T cycling assessories, Parentini
clothing and Speedplay pedals. Other sponsors
include Carroll & O'Dea
Lawyers, Tenpoint,
Vantage
Freight, Sydney
Morning Herald,
Cheeky Monkey Cycle Company Clovelly Road Centennial
Park, DS Labels – Marrackville.
REPORT
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I was speaking to Sean Bloch before racing and Sean looked
lean and very fit. As soon as he told me that he was
training 2 days a week I immediately put money on him for
the win in the A/B combined race. Sean was a world
class Olympic kilo rider and has absolutely mind boggling
acceleration when he opens up on full throttle. I am
dying to see Sean go head to head with the big fella Chris
"Brutus" Reynolds. Now that will be something to see. |
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With most of our A graders away at the Canberra tour Matty
Lucas was looking fairly confident before the race
especially when Helen and Joanne announced that it would be
an A/B combined event. Well they shook Rocky and
myself fairly smartly with an early average in the race over
40kph, so Rocky and I were pretty impressed about that. |
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Left, Matty our RBCC sprinting coach gets a sprint lesson
himself. Both the boys in classic sprinters "throw at
the line" pose. Frank Fortuna, whose RBCC uniform was
dirty and he grabbed the first old thing that he found in
his drawer, told me that he was on Matt's wheel and had
intended to stay behind Matt for as long as possible and
then have a last second dig for victory. However when
he saw the speed at which Blochey came past on the outside,
he just sat up. |
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Sean O'Neill drives the A/B bunch down the straight with
Chris White sitting in close to the front. Whitey
tried the now infamous "Whitey Manouvre" yet again this
week, going off the front on the bell lap about 1 kilometre
from home. Now last week he went later and got
swallowed up about 3/4 of the way down the start finish
straight. This time he looked like he was dragging the
Titanic behind him and got swallowed up about half way down
the start/finish straight. I'm not getting it Whitey.
What's the strategy here?? Maybe next week if you go
on the bell at the start/finish line you can watch every man
and his dog go past you over the pimple. |
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Karl Bellamy didn't race this week but that didn't stop him
sharing his pearls of wisdom with the boys before the start
of the A/B race. Karl, I don't mind you going through
racing strategies with the RBCC boys can you be a little
more careful in future as it is quite obvious that you had a
Caravello spy listening in. |
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Left, recently crowned 2004 Mens U15 NSW rider of the year,
Luke Davison takes the A/B bunch through corner 1. |
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The C grade bunch packed in tight as they negotiate corner
1. Far right is eventual winner Rodney Mendez soon to
test himself up in B grade. On the left side in RBCC
retro kit is RBCC's Tony Caruana. Tony is waiting for
the call. He tells me that he hasn't heard anything
yet but we remain hopeful and I think that it would be quite
a status symbol for RBCC if Tony is elected Pope. The
mind bobbles. A two wheeled Pope Mobile. |
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Rodney Mendez keeps a close watch on Caravello young gun
Richard Lang. Dominic Caravello brought the boys down to
Heffron for a bit of team tactics practice last week.
Richard must have enjoyed the racing because he was back
again this week stirring up the C grade bunch with Dad
Roland watching. |
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I spent a few laps on the back of C grade this week and was
very impressed with the way Roy OToole (light blue jersey)
was riding. Left Roy can be seen surrounded by fellow
RBCC riders. Roy rode very strongly and to put it
delicately, Roy is no spring chicken any more. Mark
Davies pictured just in front of Roy is also riding very
strongly at the moment and tells me that it his hope to ride
up in B grade in the near future. |
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Big Barry looked pretty "Fair Dinkum" this week as he got
his pre race manipulation and massage from Leeann.
Self appointed D grade correspondent, George Tragaris
informs me that it did him no good as "Big
Barry Mourad strained a muscle while stretching on the start
line before the race and had to pull out after 1 lap."
There is no information as to which muscle Big Bazza
strained. Suffice to say that we have exonerated
Leeann as it was Barry who had to get that little bit extra
stretch at the start line which apparently did the damage.
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What would D grade be like without big Paul Dimitriou
driving from the front. Paul loves it out there.
Loves to feel the wind in his face and on his chest.
(Personally I hate the feeling - but I digress). Good
on you Paul. D grade correspondent George Tragaris
attributes his victory partly to your assistance in keeping
the pace high. You are going to have to help someone
else now though Paul as George as elected to become C grade
correspondent. |
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E grade action and Tony captures a good picture of Charles
Dalrymple-Hay negotiating turn number 1(after the
start/finish line). It is interesting to note that
many of the D and E grade riders race on the hoods then
there a few C graders but as you go up to A & B grade the
riders are almost entirely on the drops. D's and E's
take note. You get lower and more aerodynamic also you
drop your pump (heart) lower and it does less work to pump
blood to the head and upper body. You will go faster,
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MORE INFORMATION
Randwick Botany Cycling Club conducts
racing at Heffron Park, Maroubra NSW each Saturday throughout the
year. Juniors start at 12.30pm. Seniors D & E Grade start 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
Web page layout & editing by: John Buckton
Podium Photos by: Tony Horneman
Report by John Buckton
Contact:
Tony:
communications@randwickbotanycc.com
John:
webmaster@randwickbotanycc.com
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