spr has been all around the world this year.  paul_o went to watch the tour of flanders, declan watched roubaix, julian almost got to see liege, and now paul_o is back watching the giro.  on top of this, davina was racing in a bunch of top women’s events across europe.  closer to home we have had pretty good representation in the perth based events, especially at the uci masters race.  it’s good to see the members out and about in the cycling world.

black armband saturday – northern districts club has started this initiative in memory of all cyclist that have been taken from us in recent times.  this has been spurred on by the loss of wouter weylandt and young aussie, shamus liptrot.  however, even closer to home it wasn’t that long ago that south west club lost darren strudwick to an accident on his way home.  we have been pretty lucky and i would like to keep it this way for a long time.  show your support for this by wearing a black armband on your left arm on saturday at the ride.  i know this is hard as our sleeves are black, but a strip of insulation tape around the arm will show your respects.  bring some extra tape if you have any so that others can join in.  see here for extra details.

members benefit – as you may have seen we have now included strava into the members benefits.  this allows those with a garmin to upload their rides to a leaderboard to see who is actually the quickest up the hills.  i am just dreading the day that bonner decides to logon to strava as then all the records will tumble.

ride routes – last week the transitional group had to finish their ride into a headwind along mounts bay road.  this week they will get the benefit of a tailwind along benara road while the rest of us will tackle the headwind home.  oh, and we also get to do ewen st.  on sunday, the long course will take on campersic rd up to brigadoon.  if you remember last time we did this one, that there is no water, or shops or toilets up this way so you need to be self sufficient.  i will see if we can find a tap once we get back down to the bottom.  just be aware.  the route is also a bit convoluted, so if you have a garmin, it is worth loading the course into it.

saturday 14th may

ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30am

early lap – spr earlybird ride

all rides start at coode st carpark at 7:00am

development group – spr saturday 35.48km (novice shelley)

transitional 1 – spr saturday 39.04km (benara rd)

fast, main 1, 2 & 3 – spr saturday 50.23km (ewen st)

sunday 15th may

ride starts under the narrows (cityside) at 5:30am

early lap – spr earlybird ride

all rides start at coode st carpark at 7:00am

short – spr sunday 56.93km (kalamunda)

long – spr sunday 104.03km (campersic & kalamunda)