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Calling all Roadies
Have you noticed how our fearless Mountain Biking friends seem to be doing rather well at road racing these days? While it really is great to have them race with us (even though they’re hopeless at calling out potholes under 2 metres in size, and insist on bunny hopping over fallen branches), they are starting to show…
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ACC at Northern Division Champs
Last weekend, the 20th and 21st August 2016, Port Macquarie Cycle Club hosted the Percival Property Northern Division Championships which had not been held for several years. There was fierce racing in every event with riders racing for prize money and the title of Northern Division Champion. Despite the culmination of the Rio Olympics, Armidale still had sufficient…
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Round 16 – Boorolong
Club racing was back on Boorolong this weekend and an already tough course was made all the more challenging by a 35kph headwind on the uphill way out. It is usually the case that once riders turn for the downhill homeward leg, positions don’t change too much, particularly with a strong tail-wind. This week was different…
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Gold for Hosking at State Championships
Katherine Hosking has returned to Armidale this week as NSW U17 Womens Road Race State Champion. One of five riders who traveled south and represented the club on the weekend in Wagga Wagga, Katherine was in great form in the 60km road race, attacking off the front of the bunch on an incline with 8km…
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Round 15 – Long Swamp
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time when President Tindale decided to mix it up a bit and put a hilly 45k handicap race on the Saturday race program in the middle of winter. Most people did seem to quite enjoy the extra distance and change of format but there were quite a few…