This year a more democratic process was used with you all having the opportunity to nominate who you thought should win each category.

Ride Leader of the Year

All ride leaders deserve a massive amount of credit for sacrificing their own rides to keep the rides safe, and for imparting knowledge onto the future fast group riders.

Special nomination mentions to…

• Julian Johnson
• Shaw Goh
• Mark Stupart
• Graham Hoskins

This year’s winner is Carol Dowse for her ceaseless efforts with the Development Group

Most Improved Rider

Loads of improvement across the board especially a demonstrated progression through the various spr groups throughout the year.

Special mention was made of…

• Rosslind Ellis
• Luke Ellis
• Phil Davidson
• Claire Hines

But this year’s winner is Kizzi Neale…despite a couple of set-backs throughout the year KIzzi has gone from strength to strength progressing from the Transitional group to Main 1 this year, and now manages the ‘double’ many Saturdays as well as competing in the mandurah half ironman.

Most Improved Racer

Lots of great results in racing this year and an ever increasing SPR presence at the full calendar of events.

A terrific selection of improved racers this year with special mentions going to…

• Jim Flynn
• Luke Ellis
• Carlos De Oliveira

This year’s winner is Jonathan Bolton…whilst starting from a high base Jono has developed into a leading A grader, and for those who don’t know has just returned from his first professional race overseas, riding the Tour de Ijen with Plan B.

Clubperson of the Year

It’s the people involved that make this club what it is, and it is the collective effort that sees us grow and succeed

This award attracted the largest range of nominations, some of the most notable being…

• Andrew Ballam
• Peter Mah
• Jordan Brock
• Rob Ramsden
• Jason Gordon

This year’s Clubperson of the Year is Alison Ramm.  Some of the comments she received via the nomination process included;

• she attends rides, chats at the shop, tries the races, and has done endless amounts behind the scenes to help keep the club ticking;
• she has gone above and beyond, working tirelessly to manage the kit ordering and has dragged that kit bag in and out, up and down all times of the day, (even making personal kit deliveries) despite her poorly and painful arm and despite not being able to ride herself.

Online Media Presence Award

One feature of the club is how active our members are online…some more so than others.  This year we are recognising for the first time the achievements of these folk in lifting the profile of the club in new media…

There were some serious contenders for this one.  Noted nominations were…

• Amanda Nabi
• Toby Brown
• Rosslind Ellis
• Lennie McKenzie
• Rob Ramsden

The people have spoken…This year the person for ‘putting it about’ the most in cyberspace is Anna Massey.  Anna pops up on pretty much every platform!

Most Unintentional/Spectacular Dismounts this Year

We have had a couple of nasty accidents in this calendar year and we don’t wish to make light of those, so this category is about rewarding those who have provided us with the most amusement.

Nominees for this category included…

• Ben Madsen – for an increasing number of ‘false starts’ at traffic lights
• Kizzi Neale – for the frequency of her dismounts and her frightening and rather unceremonious dismount on Burke Drive on a Thursday morning, and then bouncing straight back
• Julian Johnson – for falling off his bike while not actually on it

But this year’s winner is Amanda Nabi for at least 4 this year, the memorable ‘canoe incident’, a slide out at the bottom of Mount Street, a spectacular stack in the wet (broke her bike and needed stitches), and then a topple while wearing Australian kit on her first club ride back after South Africa (the ‘canoe incident’ was mentioned in 4 separate nominations)

Puncture Award

Again there were a range of nominations but some stood out…

• Graham Hoskins– with a run of about 5 in a row
• Jerry Ghossien – who had a number late in the year, including in one instance trying to insert a ‘tube too large’ leading to an unfortunate bulge and having to ring his wife Tanya to come and collect him….all us gents hope he doesn’t have the same problem when it comes to his day job!
• Ryan ‘Flying’ Finn – for the most tragic puncture of the year with photographic evidence to prove it…the UCI race

 

The winner is Andy Prosser. Andy has had a lot of rubber related bad luck this year, there seemed to be a period there where we getting daily status updates on Facebook about multiple punctures!

Dirty Bike Award

There weren’t a huge number of nominations for this award but of note was one for the ‘Dirty Sunday’ girl in blog post a couple of weeks ago.  Out of the other nominations received there were two clear favourites, so the award is going to both of those people

They are… Ben Madsen  and Dave Shailer

With Ben we know it’s not about the look, and to be honest we are surprised anyone can hold his wheel long enough to look at his bike!

Dave on the other hand is proud of the fact that his bike has never  even seen a soap sud…