Race News
SKCC 2015 Road Champs – News Flash – 29 August 2015
August 14, 2015The SKCC Club Road Championships are back and are going to be bigger and better than ever this year. Lock in Saturday 29 August because this is going to be another classic SKCC event not to be missed. We are going to be racing on an all new course for SKCC at Harcourt North which…
Read More
Lessons from a TTT newbie
July 2, 2015Sarah Grove, SKCC member, shares her lessons learnt from her first Team Time trial: Ensure you are at the start line at least 3 min prior, or the marshals will let you know about it! Don’t get scared by all the speedy areo looking cyclists, looks can be deceiving. ;-) Perfect course for those who…
Read More
SKCC shines at Vic Cycling Club Champs
July 2, 2015On Sunday, 28th June, all of the cycling clubs in Victoria were invited to participate in the Victorian Cycling Club Championships, which takes the form of age-category team time trials (TTT). SKCC member, Sarah Dam shares her view from the cockpit of her TT bike, and we also get to hear from her TTT teammate Sarah…
Read More
Charter Mason holds onto NRS lead
June 4, 2015CharterMason Giant (powered by Brennan IT) have completed yet another successful tour in the Cycling Australia National Road Series. This time the team moved just a relatively small distance from Toowoomba to the Battle on the Border, an event based around the Tweed Coast. Stage One saw the riders take on the 123km from Tweed…
Read More
Charter Mason takes NRS lead at Toowoomba
May 28, 2015CharterMason Giant Racing Team (powered by Brennan IT) have come away from the FKG Tour of Toowoomba with an impressive list of achievements and outcomes- including the overall lead in the 2015 National Road Series. In short: • CharterMason Giant Racing Team takes the points lead in the 2015 National Road Series competition, making the team the…
Read More
Monthly Meanders returning to SKCC
May 15, 2015We're returning to a long-standing SKCC tradition of the monthly meanders, run once a month on a Sunday morning over winter, with the kick-off starting on Sunday the 24th of May! These are social rides, not smash-fests, although if we have enough respondents, we may run two groups as we have done in the past: to accommodate…
Read More
SKCC welcomes its new CX Director!
May 15, 2015SKCC is proud to announce that it has a new Director of Cyclocross (CX), in the shape of the quietly passionate gun rider, and genuinely nice guy, Allan (Alby) Iacuone. Cycling Tips has already covered Allan's career in some detail, so we won't go over it again here, other than to note that he has…
Read More
Over 2000 do the Women’s Ride!
April 16, 2015Last Sunday, around 2000 women joined the inaugural “Women’s Ride” which comprised 53 rides and 13 events around Victoria. The rides came in many varieties: slow meanderings along bike paths, heart starting efforts along picturesque Beach Road and ascending and descending hills and mountains and navigating mountain bikes along single tracks in bushland. St Kilda…
Read More
Mini Parsons blitzes at NRS Tour of Adelaide!
April 16, 2015Last Sunday, the NRS Tour of Adelaide finished and St. Kilda cycling club member, Michaela Parsons won the overall classification in the women's race. This is an impressive result especially considering that Michaela only picked up cycling a couple of years ago, and this was her first ever NRS race and tour. She managed to win the first…
Read More
Charter Mason Giant Racing keep on their form!
April 16, 2015Charter Mason Giant Racing Team (powered by Brennan IT) have come away from the Tour of Adelaide satisfied after the close knit squad of Dan Fitter, Ryan MacAnally, Raph Freienstein, Nic Katsonis, Scott Bowden, Sam Crome and Ben Hill took a stage win and the event sprint jersey. With sponsor Kieser Training in attendance via their…
Read More