Yesterday while most Australians enjoyed a day filled with a barbeque, sun and for some the beach, I and many others were at the annual Australia Day Madison run by Blackburn Cycling Club. From 10-4 there were four madisons and three support races run over six grades making for an action packed day of [...]
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With no fencing the past two Saturdays, today included I’ve had the opportunity to both days race track at the Blackburn Outdoor velodrome. On both ocassions I’ve been successful and last Saturday I won D Grade and this Saturday I won C Grade. Both days I have phenomenally enjoyed myself and the unique atmosphere of club track racing. It [...]
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Happy New Year everyone, I hope Christmas treated you well and you enjoyed the festive week and got in a lot of riding. As you may be aware I kind of dropped the ball in terms of blogging taking a two week holiday but you can now expect more frequent blog posts, hopefully twice a [...]
Read more →Rider: Eddy Merckx As we draw to the end of the Christmas countdown we see that Eddy Merckx was the most victorious cyclist ever with 333 road victories during his career. There is little to say about Eddy Merckx as his palmares are complete barring one race which was Paris-Tours. Fellow Belgian Noel Vantyghem said famously, “Between [...]
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Rapha Rising Day 1 Today the Rapha Festive 500 begun and to celebrate Dad and I rode a lovely 70.5km through the Melbourne’s East on route to the Dandenongs. Here we climbed the Devil’s Elbow before a lovely ride back down to Hawthorn after stopping in the Basin for coffee. All up we rode 70.5km [...]
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Rider : Rik Van Steenbergen Rik was a monster of 1950′s cycling who raced practically non stop and in the process collected a staggering amount of victories. His greatest victories on the road involved five monuments as well as tying the World Championship victory count of three with Alfredo Binda, notice that name keep popping up? [...]
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Rider : Roger de Vlaemnick Roger de Vlaemnick was one of the only riders who was truly able to challenge Merckx during the classics of the early 1970′s. However racing through the Merckx era meant that Roger de Vlaemnick achievements were even more extraordinary. Monsieur Paris-Roubiax as he was known dominated all the classics and as [...]
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