by albanycycleclub | Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
SEASON OPENER: ELLEKER 18.5km TEAM TIME TRIAL – 30 November 2024 Albany Cycle Club, Western Australia’s best little cycling club, opened its 2025 season with the first of three time trials at the popular Elleker circuit. Eighteen riders lined up,...
by albanycycleclub | Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
The last race of the season on Albany Cycle Club’s 2024 racing calendar is the Elleker Graded Handicap, this year renamed The Graham Forte Memorial in honour of former long-time club member, Graham Forte, who tragically passed away earlier this year while out...
by albanycycleclub | Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Scotsdale Slam 2024 Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!You cataracts and hurricanoes, spoutTill you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks! Yes, it all got a little Shakespearean in the lead up to, and briefly prior to the...
by albanycycleclub | Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
In the lead up to the popular Redmond Gravel Handicap, the challenge went out to see if anyone was game enough to ride a road bike, such were the perfection of the conditions. Butter smooth, hardpacked, and not a rut or stray rock to be seen. On the day, just...
by albanycycleclub | Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
WOW! What an amazing ACC Mt Clarence-Corndarup HILL CLIMB CHAMPIONSHIP 2024 this afternoon. The skies cleared, the wind subsided and a healthy field of 13 starters changed into their small chainring and ditched their bidons. Vince Bascombe put aside his ATAR...
by albanycycleclub | Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
KOSCIUSZKO ‘24 ‘Because it is there,’ thus spoke George Mallory talking of Everest and why man was driven to climb it. Much the same could be said of the Albany Cycle Club’s Kosciuszko Challenge on Woodlands Road in the Porongurups. Because it’s there...
