so the news world has found out about cycling this week and for all the wrong reasons.  lots of my non-cycling work colleagues have been asking me about drugs in cycling and how can it have happened and why don’t they just let everyone on it and do they take it at my level in the sport etc, etc.  i am kind of in a “whatever” mode over the whole lance thing.  he will continue to deny everything and as such there will always be a shadow of doubt.  what will it do for cycling???  well for those that are already cycling, i doubt that they will hang up the bike.  lance has not been and inspiration for many people lately (especially after doing triathlons in just speedos) and there is a new crop of cycling drug takers superstars to inspire new riders.  the biggest shock was the admission that an aussie cyclist had taken drugs.  really???  was this such a big shock???  matt white was on the us postal team that was chocked full of …. ahem, talent, and it was really competitive to get on the tour team.  you are riding in a pro team, on the same team as the previous winner, and you can get a chance to ride in the tour on a winning team.  not really that much of a stretch.  so will either lance or matt white stop people from taking up cycling???  i don’t think so as most people feel quite distanced from the upper echelon of any sport especially when they are starting out.  i think that it is pointless to hope that this is the end of it and there are definitely others out there.  if you have a good team budget, you can probably stay ahead of the game and not get caught (for a while).  i also love the term “glo-time”.

gloves & booties – the gloves have arrived and so we will be doing a distribution at the coffee shop after the saturday ride.  any of the gloves, booties, t-shirts or bottles ordered can be collected on the day.

kings of wanneroo – we are holding a race with the RCCC at barbagello raceway on the 3rd and 4th of november.  held as part of the motobike “kings of wanneroo” we will have age grouped masters races on the saturday and graded open races on sunday.  more info can be found here.

dirty sunday – our mountain bike come and try day will be held on the 28th october.  if you have a mountain bike and want to give the dirt a try check out the previous post here and add your name to the comments.

track day – in november we are also looking at putting on a come and try the track afternoon out at the velodrome.  keep an eye out for more info.

ride routes – some interesting comments after my little main 1 apartheid experiment last week.  am wondering how many spr kits we will see this week on the saturday ride.  comments from both groups is that it went well.  don’t be afraid to speak up.  a quite word now sure beats a word to the ambulance operator later.

saturday 20th october

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 – spr saturday 40.72km (mosman park)

fast & main groups – spr saturday 49.69km (holmes rd)

NOTE: change to the fast/main course.  due to the ride to conquer cancer leaving from south perth near the causeway, we will reroute our ride.  it will be similar to the sunday rides when we head out to welshpool rd.  from mill pt rd, right onto douglas, follow this past the uni, left onto marquis, follow this till you cross shep rd, right onto swansea, left onto welshpool.

sunday 21st october

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 70.93km (kahuna)

long – spr sunday 96.36km (patterson & canns & urch)