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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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Stuart Tripp Gets 6th At The Worlds
September 15, 2011SKCC’s very own Stuart Tripp finished 6th in this week’s World Hand Cycling TT in Denmark.Stuart said “It was a hard day in the office today! A challenging, technical, wind affected course. I went out a little too hard too early, a bit of a problem of mine. In my defence it was a slight…
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SKCC Committee for 2011-12
September 15, 2011The committee! (LtR back) John Kelly, Matt Pieterse, Adrian Vlok, Rick Horvat, Peter Hood.(LtR front) Alex Johnstone, Yvonne Dolphin, Robbie Moore, Gaelene Snelling, Lee Turner,Lisa Flaherty, Gavin Bryant, Anthony Seipolt. (Term: Sept 2011 - Aug 2012)Last week SKCC held its AGM at the Urban in St Kilda where over 30 members came along to hear…
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SKCC (World) Road Champs – Race Report
September 3, 2011Crisp and fine conditions greeted a record 81 competitors (60 Men, 1 Junior and 20 Women) at Woodend for the SKCC (World) Road Cycling Club Championships. The 24.77km 'big mans' course was probably going to favour the 'small guys' as a brisk westerly wind picked up just as proceedings kicked off at 10am. The wind…
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Peloton Ball – Winners And Grinners
September 3, 2011There were lots of lucky boys and girls who walked away from the Peloton ball with goodies. The full list of winners and grinners is below. We would like to say a big thankyou to the club's sponsors and everybody who donated prizes. You can see all the pictures from the night at the SKCC gallery…
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Fast Facts
September 3, 2011Anthony Seipolt has been reviewing the club's activities and has gathered some illuminating statistics. 23,076 Page views on the SKCC website for the month of June 2011. 775 The number of followers of the SKCC twitter account @stkildacc. 646 The number of SKCC members registered as of 31 August 2011. 476 Number of SKCC race…
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National Duathlon Series – Canberra Edition
September 3, 2011SKCC member Karen Hill headed to Canberra on the weekend to compete in the Canberra edition of the Australian duathlon series (5km run/30km ride/2.5km run). The race start was split up, with females under 50 going off 4 minutes before the guys under 50. The girls set a cracking pace at the start, but I was…
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Blackburn Cycling Club – Supporting Womens Cycling
August 26, 2011Picture: Jodie and Grace in the women’s criterium – photo Still Waters Photography. Blackburn Cycling Club hosted a Women’s Criterium on Saturday afternoon at Casey Fields, the first of what we hope will be a regular feature. A field of eleven women competed, three of them SKCC. Jodie Batchelor from the SKCC Giant Women’s Race…
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SKCC Women In The Medal Count
August 1, 2011The SKCC women for the Vic Club Team Time Trial Championships – photo David HeatleyL to R: Lisa Coutts, Grace Phang, Justyna Lubkowski, Alison Raaymakers, Jodie Batchelor, Pip Read, Von Micich. After an inspiring time trial placed Cadel Evans in the yellow jersey two SKCC/Giant teams and one SKCC Development Squad team were fired up…
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