Race report by Chris

Being

left to fend for himself as the only entry from the bunch in the Golden Spokes Support race Michael B was treating the race as a personal test. Whilst the rest of the racers were off chasing Rouleurs points Mike reeled off a fine second place winning the mens support race. Mel Hoskins who has ridden with us on the Sunday rides in the past pulled off the overall win (and obviously first woman) after outsprinting Mike for the line.

The pair escaped at about half race distance and with no concerted effort by the bunch to chase them down extended their lead to finish 30 seconds in front of the bunch.

Another some time Rouleur, Josie Tomic, finished with a third after being heavily marked by the other ladies.

As an aside two defacto Rouleurs, Julian and Hamish, from the Barista boys raced in the Open. They were taught a couple of lessons by the big boys, not the least of which was to make sure they enter the support race when there is one. However, sounded like they enjoyed the outing, particularly the opportunity to race with the fast guys.

In the Open, I believe Luke Durbridge took out the win. He was with a breakaway bunch of 3 from the first or second lap and left them with two to go. Not bad beating home the likes of Ben King and Cam Meyer even though this was probably not a priority race for them.

Good to see Davina out and about, it seems the broken Radius isn’t holding her back too much. Check her blog for an update soon.

I went along to have a look and liked what I saw, the circuit was fast & pretty safe. The organization looked pretty solid aside from a minor hiccup with the witches hats causing a delay to the start.

One concern to my mind was the presence of tri-bars in an Open road race, not sure how they slipped passed the commissaires. As it turned out they didn’t figure in the results or I believe the accident that occured, so no harm done.

A great result for Michael and here’s hoping this event grows into something over the coming years.

Congratulations Mr B.