Race News
Another bumper day of racing
December 2, 2011One of the original founding members of SKCC – Rene Bueman still doing his bit 11 years later. It was another bumper day of racing with great numbers across all grades on Sunday as the weather played a nice backdrop to the fierce racing going on around the South Melbourne circuit.The atmosphere was second to…
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Congratulations Brad Davies – Croc Trophy MAS2 Winner
November 6, 2011Club member Brad Davies has recently taken out the masters 2 category by over and hour at the Crocodile Trophy in far north Queensland. The race is a 10 stage mountain bike race of over 1200km through the remote rainforest and outback scrub from Cairns to Cooktown with stages as long as 190km. The race is…
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Melbourne To Warrnambool Race Report
November 6, 2011SKCC Club President Anthony Seipolt deep in the hurt box (photo courtesy of “The Wheeler” Magazine) Congratulations to all the SKCC guys that went and raced the gruelling 260KM Melbourne to Warrnambool Race on Saturday in horrible conditions. These mighty men were faced with strong head and cross winds with some rain to add to…
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Wet, Windy, Cloudy But We Still Raced
October 17, 2011Winners are grinners – Photo courtesy of Colin RedmondIt was a cold dark wet & windy morning and it was touch and go to see if racing would be called off but we took the risk and it paid off as the rain stayed away but the numbers didn’t.Men’s A Grade had another quality field…
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The SKCC Kit Races MTB In Switzerland
October 17, 2011SKCC’S Tim Tyler headed for Switzerland in August to compete in the Eiger Bike Challenge.Part of the Swiss Bike Marathon series the Eiger Bike Challenge with it’s 1,500 participants is one of the five main MTB events in Switzerland and offers three distances, 25km, 55km & 88km. Tim opted for the 55km event with it’s…
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The Day The Big Hitters Came Out To Play
October 11, 2011The SKCC crit season started off on fantastic note with massive fields across all grades and some heavy hitters coming out to race A Grade. The weather after days of rain cleared and showed us some beautiful rays of sunshine. The atmosphere was electric, the crowds were huge and the mood was joyous with everyone…
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SKCC Mountain Bikers At The “You Yangs Yowie” – 15 Oct
October 11, 2011Saturday 15th of October is the “You Yangs Yowie” solo endurance mountain bike event run by The Geelong Mountain Bike Club. This is a great event with a choice of 3 distance options, either 33, 66 or 99km and all within a one hour drive from the centre of Melbourne. This is the first in a…
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Northern Combine Road Champs – Women’s Race
October 4, 2011A sunny day greeted us at Broadford on Saturday. Sadly the wind was not our friend, the shape of the course ensuring we would be facing a head or crosswind for most of the race with the only relief being a short stretch at the beginning of each lap!SKCC members were very well represented, making…
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Velo Vendredi Is Back – Friday 7 Oct
October 3, 2011Spring is in the air and SKCC is inviting you to join us to celebrate the opening 2011/12 crit season. Come and have a coffee on us this Friday at Rush Cafe at Total Rush, Richmond. Located inside the Total Rush bike shop, 100m from Richmond train station, Simon and his team at Rush Café, deliver…
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Big Day, Big Ride At The Amy Gillet Gran Fondo
September 27, 2011Picture: Anthony Seipolt lines up at the start of the inaugural Amy's Gran FondoIt’s natural for every rider to wake up and look either at the weather radar on their phone, or out the window. This was no different for Sunday’s Amy Gillet Gran Fondo. Earlier on in the week, the forecast was for a…
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