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Round 7 – Long Swamp
After a month-long break, the 2015 Road Racer of the Year competition was back in action on Saturday with a 30K handicap on Long Swamp. Dave Jenner and Peter Wilkinson got things underway in near perfect conditions with a 4-minute advantage on the chasers featuring Billy Mara and a steadily improving Pete Harris who keeps…
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Missile Mick Strikes Again
In a handicapped criterium race yesterday, Mick Hoult made up a one lap deficit to catch the leaders and then outsprint them on the line for an impressive victory. With rain threatening, temperatures barely reaching 8 degrees and a number of riders competing in the Coona-Gunnedah-Tamworth races, just 14 brave souls turned up and were despatched…
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NRS Catch-up
Sam Jenner has been a hard young man to catch over the last few weeks with back to back weekends at the Tour of Toowoomba and the Battle on the Border which were both 5-stage National Road Series (NRS) races. We did manage to catch up with him earlier this week however to hear how he…
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Feedback Needed
Over the last couple of years we’ve run an interclub competition between Armidale, Inverell and Tamworth road racing clubs. This has been a successful event with 53 riders competing in the 2014 competition and interest already growing for a bigger and better version in 2015. At the Armidale club meeting last week we agreed to…
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Head Scratching
The results are in from the weekend racing on Boorolong but interpreting them is proving more challenging for your absent reporter! It was decided to run the event as A and B graded scratch races rather than the advertised Points Race due to the practicalities of getting up and back through the middle of the…