KOM Financial Advice’s NRS Team talks Handicap Etiquette
As some of you may remember, we featured KOM Financial Advice’s NRS Team NeroKOM a few newsletters ago. Our SKCC member, Sam Basccombe is a rider for NeroKOM. The NeroKOM team captain is Chris Miller, 2016 winner of LeTape and 2017 Bowral Classic. He puts out a weekly vlog, viewed by several thousand cyclists each…
Vice President, Alison Raaymakers answers the 5 Questions
If you've joined SKCC in the past 3-4 years, you've probably had a welcome phone call from Alison! Alison is one of the stalwarts of the club and knows most (if not all!) members, she raced in the SKCC Giant Women's Race Team for 5 years, has been on committee for 4 and is a…
Sponsorship Director, Enzo Compagnoni answers the 5 Questions
Enzo started road riding in May 2016 as a way to stay in touch with a friend who was going through a rough time. He didn’t expect to love it so much and become so addicted to the feeling, fitness and community that riding brings! Enzo originally joined SKCC in Sept 2016 as he wanted to…
KOM Handicap Series continues
Ladies - Sunday 25th of Feb, along with state crit champs, we have Race 2 of the KOM Financial Advice Women’s Handicap Series. The handicapping is being tweaked, stand by for more. Racing is at 8:30am so get yourself on the startlist https://entryboss.cc/calendar/skcc AND there's also a skills session, register for that one: https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=352330&
Tour of East Gippsland a happy hunting ground…
When we go to Metung we do not muck around, there are so many quality performances to mention, we had to limit it to the top 10. Congratulations to you all for getting out there and doing it! Men's A Grade - General Classification 1st Raphael FREIENSTEIN 5th Jordan VILLANI 9th Sam BASCOMBE Stage 1 TT 3rd Jordan…
2018 State Crit Championships at SKCC – 25th Feb and 4th Mar
We're excited to be hosting the Victorian Criterium Championships over two weekends on our South Melbourne circuit. Below is an approximate schedule of all racing occurring on the 25th of Feb and 4th of March. Please note that this is entry dependent and is subject to change. As Men's Masters categories are being held on a different day to…
Race 1 of the KOM Financial Advice Handicap Series for women
Sunday’s first race in the KOM Financial Advice 3 Race Women’s Series saw a new face on the top step at SKCC. Congratulations to Viki Newton of Pirates Sporting Club. Handicap racing is new to SKCC crits, with many of the B and C graders participating in their first. As with road handicaps they are…
Steve Drake – new CEO of CA answers the 5 Questions
Many of you would have seen that SKCC member, Steve Drake has taken over the running of our national Sporting Body, Cycling Australia, so we thought it would a great idea to find out a bit more about Steve. Steve has been a Cycling Australia board member since February 2017 and it's fair to say…
Carol Cooke carries Queen’s Baton
A few months ago I received a letter telling me that I was to be one of the 3800 people chosen to carry the Queen's Baton in the relay that was going around Australia on a 70 day trip to the opening of the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. I felt very honoured to…
KOM Women’s Handicap Race Series – how do we play?
The first round of the Women's KOM Financial Advice Handicap 3 Race Series is on this weekend and will be run as a graded handicap with all riders in the running for the series leader's jersey and points towards the overall. The prize pool for the series is $1000, split amongst the…