News & Race Reports
W SMITH HANDICAP Albany Cycle Club’s last race of the season was the newly reconstituted J W Smith handicap. Held under clear skies, the field was started in three groups at intervals calculated to give everyone a reasonable chance at holding the trophy aloft. First...
RACE REPORT What a day! Forget cold, dark, wet, windy. Conditions were 💯% PERFECT for this year's ACC LOWLANDS SCRATCH GRAVEL RACE. The 10km circuit had everything to challenge & delight: fast gravel, serpentine single track, bitumen, undulations, potholes, mud,...
RACE REPORT With the first attempt postponed because of a weather forecast resembling a rabid pit-bull on a rampage, the inaugural running of the ACC’s Gravel Gauntlet, a 23.6 kilometre time trial on good, wholesome, brown dirt took place last Saturday. The gently...
Teardrop Handicap Road Race 2025 The most recent event on Albany Cycle Club’s calendar saw riders venture west to take on the hilly Denmark Teardrop course. From a very damp and gloomy morning, the weather had transformed itself and conditions were ideal for the...
RACE REPORT: ACC NULLAKI HANDICAP Road Race 2025 . 7am, Sat 15 Feb, 2025. Albany Cycle Club’s latest race, the Nullaki Handicap, was held on a deceptively testing course on the Nullaki peninsular. While the initial kilometres of the race are flat, each end of the...
KEES GLORIE HANDICAP 2025 The second road race of Albany Cycle Club’s 2025 season was the iconic Kees Glorie Memorial handicap. Dating back to 2009, the race is held in honour of the memory of Kees Glorie who was tragically struck and killed while out riding. Sadly,...
RACE REPORTELLEKER HANDICAP ROAD RACE 18 JANUARY 2025 Albany Cycle Club’s 2025 road racing season kicked off with the Elleker Handicap on Saturday morning. The flat and fast course, four laps of the pond for a total of 37kms made for high average speeds across the...
RACE REPORT: ACC Elleker 18.5km Individual Time Trial. Sat 14 Dec, 2024. The third of Albany Cycle Club’s trio of time trials was held at Elleker on Saturday morning, once again in great conditions, although, as it was apparently ‘fully winter’ just a few short...
RACE REPORT: ACC Elleker 18.5km Individual Time Trial. Sat 7 Dec, 2024. The second round of Albany Cycle Club’s summer time trial series shifted from the team format to individual battle against the clock on the 18.5km course; two laps of the Elleker circuit....
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, departing in...
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...
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 start of the...
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...
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...