THANK YOU:

Commissaire John Buckton. Thanks to our safety marshals Dave & Sandy Mackey, Dieter Winkler and Richard Jenkins. Thanks to Richard Jenkins & assistant Matt Hynes for deploying and retrieving all the safety equipment.  Thanks to Joanne Buckton for assisting on the registration table.  Thanks to Kate Buckton for manning the canteen.  Thanks to Leanne Emery for being our First Aid Officer.  Thanks to Rocky "snaps" Fortuna for being club photographer.

CLUB SPONSORS (see logos right)

Randwick Botany Cycling Club is proudly sponsored by FRF Couriers, parent company of Excelpro.  Excelpro is the distributor of products including BH bicycles, Argon 18 bicycles,  Cinelli bicycle accessories, Colnago bicycles & accessories, 3T cycling assessories, Vittoria shoes and Speedplay pedals.  Bike Bug carries all our major sponsors bikes and products such as Colnago, Cinelli and Argon 18.  Tony "the Bug" is offering all Randwick Botany members a 15% discount off parts and accessories.  Go to cyclebits.com for all your cycling consumable needs like tyres, tubes, bar tape, etc, etc.  Order online from an Australian company, and have your cyclebits arrive at your door a day or two later Long term RBCC sponosr DS Labels – Marrackville. Sponsors of our club jersey include Carroll & O'Dea Lawyers,  Tenpoint, Vantage Freight, Sydney Morning Herald.

REPORT

Received some feedback that the standard of A Club racing had gone down with some riders choosing to sit in and wait for the Open A graders to catch. So in an effort to counter that, I amended the start times this week to make it a REAL handicap and announced to A Club that they had a real chance of winning if they worked together rather than waiting for the chasers.  Seemed to work because A club really worked hard and actually held off the hard charging A Opens who got to about 30 metres of the back of the A clubies on the final straight.  Talk about your close finishes.  Well A Club you can't rest on your laurels just yet.  I am giving the A opens another 20 seconds next race so you guys are going to have to keep working hard together.

Brent Dawson took the Victory with Nick Rathbourne and club sponsor Tony "The Bug" Corrigan coming in third.  In fact the minor places were an RBCC sponsor shootout with Frank "FRF" Fortuna coming fourth. 1st A Open home was Liam Kelly.

	The King of Heffron, Anthony "Spurge" Spurgeon takes the Open A graders over "The Pimple".  Tucked in behind is our own, Stage winner in the Tour Of Ireland, Josh Marden followed closely behind by the recent winner of the Ride for Life Masters race, John Kenny.
	Its Floyd Landis, No it's Pat Jones.  Paddy hasn't raced for quite some time and doubted his form. I convinced him to have a run in A Club and he thoroughly enjoyed it and looked great out there.  Good on you Pat, good to see you back racing at Heffron.
	Great ride in B grade from David Thomas.  David was away in several breaks then got away by himself and stayed away.  Left an early break with David Thomas and Scotty McDonald away together.  Scott also had a great race but unfortunately finished out of the placings.
	Here's a shot of Whitey (Chris White) who is looking around seemingly wondering, "How the hell did I get up the front"
	With David away, the B peleton sprint was for second place. Left Adam Leserve of Illawarra just takes it from Warwick Goldsmith.
	Eventual winner of C Grade and B grade candidate, Victor Gaspar throttles back to pose for Rocky as C grade crests the pimple.  As usual Dave "Knuckles" Crampton can be seen close to the front during most of the race except at the end.
	The C grade sprint and Victor made it look pretty easy.  Where's "Knuckles" now ???  Well we would need a bigger zoom lens on the club camera to see that far back.   Don't forget gang, next week is the 50km reverse direction race.

PRIZE MONEY

With a significant fall in riders entries in the winter months we have had to drop the prise money a little, however it is still fantastic with the handicap winner receiving $150.

START TIMES

Randwick Botany Cycling Club conducts racing at Heffron Park, Maroubra NSW each Saturday throughout the year. Juniors start at 12.30pm. Seniors D, E, & F grades will start at 2pm and A, B & C grades will start at 3pm.

RACING SHEDULE

A handicap race for A B & C grades will be conducted on the first Saturday of every month.  Second,  fourth & fifth Saturdays will be normal scratch races.  On the Third Saturday of every month racing will be longer and conducted in reverse direction.  A grade 25 laps (50 kilometres), B grade 23 laps and C grade 20 laps.  D, E & F will be normal distance

For more information please contact the club secretary Joanne Buckton on 02 9315 7801 or email: secretary@randwickbotanycc.com

Web page layout & editing by: John Buckton

Photos by: Rocky Fortuna

Report by John Buckton

Contact:
Tony:  communications@randwickbotanycc.com

John:   webmaster@randwickbotanycc.com