General News
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Adrian Booth, Ironman, fifty pushups!
April 1, 2015Definitions of “extreme” include “exceeding the ordinary, usual, or expected.” For most people… the idea of completing a triathlon fits that definition. However for a certain, shall we say “unique” (crazy) demographic in our midst, such a task is nothing more than a challenge that needs to be conquered. And, for an even smaller group,…
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Charter Mason Giant posts its best tour ever!
March 31, 2015CharterMason Giant Racing (Powered by Brennan IT) have returned from the first round of the National Road Series in Western Australia on a high having posted the team’s best ever results. From the opening prologue on Thursday night, where newly crowned Australian Eliminator MTB Champion Paul van der Ploeg took the win, it was clear…
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