THANK YOU:

Commissaire John Buckton. Thanks to our safety marshals Rob Marden & Warwick McCalpine. 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 Rocky Fortuna for manning the canteen.  Thanks to Leanne Emery for being our First Aid Officer.  Thanks to Ritchie "Cecil B de Jenkins"  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

Being third week of the month, it was racing in reverse direction for A. B & C grades.  We haven't been game to try it with D, E & F who are happy to go the normal direction.  Also different this week was our photographer, Mr Ritchie Jenkins who announced early in the day, this quote (which I am pretty sure that I recollect word for word), "I am a very good photographer, I just don't know how to use this camera properly"  Well Ritchie you were not kidding. 

I am not sure if automatic cameras get any easier than point and click Ritchie.  Actually there really is not such an animal as you still have to adjust for the speed of your subject and the prevailing light conditions by selecting the little running man or the night/day switch.  Then there is the zoom button where you try to get the subject when he/she is not 300 metres away.  Anyway without heaping too much more shame on poor Ritchie. 

Here are some of his better shots.

Here's an example of the correct exposure (light conditions) selected.

A well focused shot.  I think that is you Jacko !!

Good use of the 10 by optical lens to zoom into the subject.

Good framing of the subject in the shot

Ritchie has mastered cycling photography and tries his hand at soccer.

Well Leanne you asked for a shot of E grade action and Ritchie delivers !!!!   (If you  click on image to enlarge to full size and then hold a magnifying glass in front of the screen), you will see that it is you DRIVING the E grade bunch down the start/finish straight.

PRIZE MONEY

Handicap winner receiving $150.  A grade winner on normal day is $120 and we now have a first A club prize of $50.

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: Cecil B deJenkins

Report by John Buckton

Contact:
Tony:  communications@randwickbotanycc.com

John:   webmaster@randwickbotanycc.com