the tour is starting.  the tour is starting.  get ready for three weeks of late nights, cold early morning bike rides and falling asleep at work.  i told my guys at work to expect me to be cranky for the next few weeks.  i told them the same thing last year and the sky team went and ruined it for me.  it just wasn’t as much fun. everyone is saying that froome will win this year based on the sky formula for tour riding.  however, it doesn’t take much in that first week to make it all come undone.  cadel isn’t the strongest rider, but the other year, he kept out of trouble while others suffered from a number of misfortunes.  the tour is three weeks long so don’t count anyone out or anyone as a sure thing just yet.  now where is that no-doze.

ride leaders – we are trying to be proactive by setting up our ride leaders in advance.  this way you can work out your training and on your “off” days you can help out taking charge of one of the groups.  see the previous post for more details or sign up here.  please help out the club and volunteer your time.  thanks to those that have already put their name down.

spr breakfast – the quarterly spr breakfast is on this saturday after the ride.  cost is $15 and this gets you a coffee and a selection of food.  please try to bring along exact change to speed up the process.

tour tipping comp – with the tour de france starting this weekend we again will be running our tour tipping comp.  it is quite detailed and it gives you a reason to stay up and watch even the boring stages.  cost is $20 and all money goes into the prize pool.  the more people that enter, the bigger the prize pool.  more info here.

bwa swan valley – we have a number of groups entered in the cyclo-sportif this weekend at swan valley.  please do your best to wear the current club kit as we are using this as an opportunity to update the club photos and will be looking at getting as many people photographed as possible.

track cycling grand prix – if you are not doing the cyclo, there is still an chance to see some first rate track racing as tickets are available to the track cycling grand prix.  more info here.

spr kit order – the next kit order will close at midnight on monday 1 july and arrive in mid august.  orders are made via the champion systems online ordering system.  advice on how to order can be found on the team kit section of this website.  SPR kit wishlist_June2013 provides a summary of current kit options.  don’t forget only financial spr (south perth cycle club) members can be seen around town in our kit…

ride routes – with the club breakfast on, i thought it was a good chance to build up an appetite by doing the holmes road route.  on sunday, there will be lots of people off doing the cyclo, so make sure you know the ride route.

saturday 29th june

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

early lap – earlybird 40.93km spr special

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

development group – novice shelley 36.06km spr saturday

transitional – trans canning vale 42.34km spr saturday

fast & main groups – holmes rd 50.42km spr saturday

sunday 30th june

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

early lap – earlybird 40.93km spr special

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

short – spr sunday 70.93km (kahuna)

long – khna can mills 94.55km spr sunday