Ride Routes 26th March – 1st April

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The recent Canteen ride from Bassendean to Busselton ranged from 300km to 400km with or without hills over 2.5 days offering a goldilocks ride for all. In the slower levels the roll through sometimes involved a five-minute chat with each person as they rolled by so you got to know all the members of your group – not an option in the faster groups!

The huge support of so many volunteers for the whole event such as 15 support vehicles, trucks, trailers, cooks, organisers and a masseur to name a few, as well as Rotary and Lions Clubs in the country towns to provide meals really takes this event to a totally different level you rarely get to experience.

All participants discover a new perspective when they hear about what young cancer patients and their families go through – it truly is an immersive and uplifting experience.

The 11 members of the SPR team raised over $13,000 to help support CanTeen!

The CanTeen organisers did a fantastic job with their COIVD plans to keep it a safe event including their Covid Man (picture above 😎) to keep the message front and centre.

Of course the Club too has been following the government advice on COVID for community sport and wants to reinforce the need to not attend an event or ride if you are not feeling well; alternatively, returning a negative RAT based on the instructions prior to attending. Don’t forget a mask and your phone for proof of vaccination if you plan on a coffee afterwards as per the government requirements for hospitality venues.

 

Jim Flynn and the Indian Pacific Wheel Ride 2022 – Last week we saw off Jim on his IndiPac 2022 adventure (see last week’s blog).

See below for the progress update as at now and see his latest Facebook post here.

AGM Reminder – Don’t forget that voting is open until tomorrow evening for the SPR Annual General Meeting 2022. Check your email or voting link here.

The in-person section of the meeting will be held on Saturday 26 March 2022 at 9:00am at DOME Westralia Plaza (5/167 St Georges Terrace, Perth) following the usual Saturday ride.

The Committee requests that all attendees of the meeting vote using this form wherever possible. Please contact the club via the email address admin@southperthrouleurs.com.au if you have any problems voting.

New Race Day Gear – the SPR Kit Subcommittee and Mayeur are proud to announce the SPR Race Day Hoodie and SPR Race Day Tee for your wearing pleasure.

You know you want one.

Unlike our normal kit orders, these items may be ordered any time and will be delivered direct to your door. Order on the Mayeur SPR shop here.

 

Criterium racing this weekend – If you want to race, or get in on the action watching others race, read on.

1. PDCC Summer Criterium Series 2021-22 #9

2. WCMCC Kewdale Criterium

 

From the Ride Coordinator – So it looks like this weekend may be our first “inclement weather” forecast for the year on our Saturday main ride with an ex tropical cyclone weaving its way down the west coast It’s a good time to remind people to look over your bike for things like tyre and brake wear and to make sure that everything is in good working order. Which is an expectation on all riders who ride with SPR. The consequences of a poorly maintained bike might not just be an early finish to your ride but could impact others as well. As we move towards the wetter months, now is the time to recheck everything so you are prepared for the more slippery conditions across May into September.

Speaking of getting prepared for the winter months, our Sunday Short Hills and Long Hills ride will revert back to a 7am start time from Sunday 3rd of April. So to be clear that is NOT this Sunday it is the following Sunday. This will mean that from that first Sunday in April ALL Sunday rides will depart Coode Street at 7am after the coffee ride and the Social Short Hills ride moved to the 7am start time a few weeks back.

Also worth highlighting is that over the coming months there will be significant road works being done around Bayswater but also along Welshpool road as the bridging for the Metronet Station near Whatley and the same on the Leach Highway over Welshpool take place. You can bet there will be disruptions and diversions taking place on these busy roads and many of our ride routes also traverse these intersections. Whilst we will do our best to minimize interactions/routes to avoid these works, the ones on Leach Hwy will be the most problematic for the Sunday Hills riders so we would encourage all regular Sunday Hills riders to avail themselves of information each weekend on what’s going on as it is likely to constantly change and it can’t be fixed by chopping and changing our ride routes online every week. So please keep an eye out for changes on the main roads website and let each other know when you find out.

Saturday 26th March

Sunday 27th March

Monday 28th March

Tuesday 29th March

  • Ride starts under the Narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
  • Ride starts Frasers ave at 5:45am
    • Development group – interval training kings park

Wednesday 30th March

Thursday 31st March

Friday 1st April

Ride Routes 19 – 25th March

Posting a few photos and shoutouts tonight. One of the many things I love about cycling is the choices we have to pick our challenge – whether a tour or a race, whether the course is flat or replete with climbs, whether close or far away – and meet the challenge in good company.

This week just gone we have had SPR members participating in lots of places. Check out photos from the Peaks Challenge and Tour of Blackwood this time, and expect some more from the Life Cycle for CanTeen ride next week.

Tour of Blackwood – First up, the 2022 Edition of the Tour of Blackwood. Just a tidy 130kms if you don’t mind. We had 14 SPR riders. It turns out that this year’s included some challenges, including heavy rain, lightning and kangaroos (who took down one rider) before hot conditions and strong headwinds made the final 40kms.

I am told it was a great day out (!!) with our riders proving their abilities over a demanding course with over 1,600m of climbing.

 

Peaks Challenge Falls Creek – Congratulations to Damon, Peter, Jake, Waeel & Diego. For any that are familiar, this is a difficult ride – neatly summarised as

235km | 4000m+ | 13hrs

You get the picture. Kudos.

Check out the highlights video here as well as a few more photos on Facebook.

Jim Flynn and the Indian Pacific Wheel Ride 2022 – I want it offer a huge shoutout to long-time SPR member Jim for his about-to-commence efforts (not that he hasn’t been training!) with him embarking on the IndiPac 2022 this weekend. Check out his Facebook post here for a few more photos.

Jim had intended on doing this in 2021 but the universe had other plans, so 2022 is the year. The ride involves some 5,500km from Perth to Sydney.

Wishing you all the best Jim!

Those of you who have been around a while will know that Jim has been a consistent contributor to club and the SPR blog dating back as early as 2011 – check out all his SPR posts here. Jim has promised me a write-up of this epic adventure.

You can follow Jim live online here (look for Jimbo):

https://indianpacificwheelride2022.maprogress.com

And the latest pictures from tonight 💪🏻😎

  • Team 2022
  • Jim is ready

 

AGM Nomination Reminder – Don’t forget that nominations for the SPR Committee close tomorrow (Friday 18 March).

Read the post here as well as Andrew’s post about a few changes up for a vote at the AGM.

Nominations to Sam by email on admin@southperthrouleurs.com.au.

 

 

New Race Day Gear – the SPR Kit Subcommittee and Mayeur are proud to announce the SPR Race Day Hoodie and SPR Race Day Tee for your wearing pleasure.

You know you want one.

Unlike our normal kit orders, these items may be ordered any time and will be delivered direct to your door. Order on the Mayeur SPR shop here.

 

Criterium racing this weekend – If you want to race, or get in on the action watching others race, read on.

1. RCCC CloudConnect Summer Criteriums #4

2. WCMCC Herne Hill Road Race

 

From the Ride Coordinator – OK OK, before I get bailed up at the coffee shop again after the ride, I promise this weeks ride will be a little more sedate after back to back hills at Mosman and Ewen over the last few weeks. This Saturdays ride “only” has the lumpiness of Stock Rd to navigate before meandering out into some nice roll trhrough territory along South Street, Nicholson and Albany Highway. This ones got “something in it for everyone” and is one of our most popular routes, especially with a South Easterly tail wind to finish with.

Enjoy.

Saturday 19th March

Sunday 20th March

Monday 21st March

Tuesday 22nd March

  • Ride starts under the Narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
  • Ride starts Frasers ave at 5:45am
    • Development group – interval training kings park

Wednesday 23rd March

Thursday 24th March

Friday 25th March

Expanding the Committee

Daniel has recently called for nominations from potential new Committee members. Part of the reason is that we plan to grow the Committee to help spread the load a bit more. The Committee currently stands at 11 members, but we wish to grow that to 13, with provision for up to 15 in the future.

To do that we need to make a minor amendment to the Constitution which members will be asked to vote on at the upcoming AGM.

Rule 6.1 will change from;

6.1   Management of the Club shall be vested in the Committee elected by the members at the Annual General Meeting and consisting of
  • 6.1.1   President;
  • 6.1.2   Vice President;
  • 6.1.3   Secretary;
  • 6.1.4   Treasurer;
  • 6.1.5   at least three (3) but not more than seven (7) other Committee Members.

To the new rule;

6.1   Management of the Club shall be vested in the Committee elected by the members at the Annual General Meeting and consisting of
  • 6.1.1   President;
  • 6.1.2   Vice President;
  • 6.1.3   Secretary;
  • 6.1.4   Treasurer;
  • 6.1.5   at least three (3) but not more than eleven (11) other Committee Members.

Please let us know if you’re interested in helping to run the club that does so much for so many. There are always roles on various sub-committees if you feel the jump to the management committee might be too much for you.

Send an email to admin@southperthrouleurs.com.au to register a nomination.

Ride Routes 12 – 18th March

This week I would like to come back to the AGM and put a shoutout for volunteers.

We have a strong committee, with a few of us who have been involved for many years. And you might think – “well if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” – I hear you, although let me tell you a different story.

We have a club that is doing some good things. We have clearly articulated values. Safe. Inclusive. Organised. Social. And we do the things the club does on the basis of those values. Our Ride Leaders choose to show up every weekend and help make our biggest rides for the week live up to those values. We support women in cycling, and are seeing more women than ever riding (and racing) with us. We seek to provide opportunities for members to participate in events (think Tour of Margaret River, Tour de Gracetown) and to get into racing. The list goes on.

Now here is what we don’t want. We don’t want to end up in a situation where our Committee all want to step back at once.

So here is the opportunity that presents itself. Get involved with a group of people who believe that cycling is a community sport that is enjoyable, and worth doing with like-minded others. Don’t feel like you have to take on the world. Do feel like you can join a team, and find ways to contribute without having to do it all yourself.

There is room for you to make a contribution. The headline photo above is our new SPR Club Photo (2022 Edition). I think it has come together just splendidly. But like the second photo just above, doing things well takes organisation and a little bit of work.

Come behind the scenes and see how this all works.

I’ve said enough. You will be welcome. There is a way for you to contribute, whether on the committee or one of our subcommittees. We have a solid group of existing Committee who want to continue – I am wanting to continue if you will have me – as well as space for new people to get involved.

Read our secretary’s formal post here.

New Race Day Gear – the SPR Kit Subcommittee and Mayeur are proud to announce the SPR Race Day Hoodie and SPR Race Day Tee for your wearing pleasure.

You know you want one.

Unlike our normal kit orders, these items may be ordered any time and will be delivered direct to your door. Order on the Mayeur SPR shop here.

AusCycling WA State Criterium Championships – This Sunday just gone saw the State Champs held.

If you missed the write-up with all the podiums, check it out on Facebook here.

 

From the Ride Coordinator – There was definitely a lot of conversation at the coffee shop after last Saturday’s ride (Shelley Mosman) that ranged from “never did that before” to “good to have that one back” but universally there was the theme of how challenging that route was. Probably because the “lumpiness” back ends that route as opposed to getting the hills out the way early. Well this week, the hill is slap bang in the middle and plenty of people think that this one is our most challenging. If you haven’t guessed it by now, yes it’s the infamous Ewen Street climb! This is one of the routes we schedule on once or twice a year, so if you haven’t ridden it before, then please do yourself a favour and check it out. For the rest of us, how can we forget it 😎

Couple of other things to note this week. First of these relates to our popular Thursday ride route. The committee, in consultation with regular riders have decided to permanently adopt the current revised route that takes us up Shenton Road due to safety considerations and the fact that the groupings will then only have to traverse one set of lights on West Coast highway. So despite the fact that Claremont Crescent will be open both ways, our Thursday ride route will be amended on line to reflect the change to include Shenton Rd.

A few other updates to some monthly ride routes. It seems we may have jumped the gun a little early in bringing back the SPR gravel ride last month with only a very small contingent riding.  As a club we were trying to create an opportunity for riders to train for SeVen when in reality, those training for that event will be doing longer rides than just the Heritage trail. As a result we won’t be scheduling another gravel ride until after the SeVen event in May and possibly when there’s a little more grip on the trail itself.

Finally, for those that have been asking about the resumption of the monthly mid week 10am development ride that we introduced last year, we are planning for this to return again when the weather cools down – so we are hoping to schedule it up for the second week in April and run it through winter. Please note that this was always intended to be a development ride at a slower pace and only scheduled monthly.  So for those interested the first of these will be scheduled on Wednesday 13th April leaving Coode Street at 10am at development ride pace and will be lead by one of our ride leaders. We will remind everyone again a few weeks out.

Saturday 12th March

Sunday 13th March

Monday 14th March

Tuesday 15th March

  • Ride starts under the Narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
  • Ride starts Frasers ave at 5:45am
    • Development group – interval training kings park

Wednesday 16th March

Thursday 17th March

Friday 18th March

Ride Routes 5 – 11th March

After we’ve had lots of photos of racing in recent weeks, I thought to share some which remind us of the beautiful mornings most of us ride in a number of days every week.

Open invitation – feel free to share your best morning photos on the SPR Facebook group or tag us on Instagram. You know we love cycling photos.

For most of you, I’m sure I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know… but morning rides are simply the best way to start the day. The biggest problem I have is forgetting to check what wind is doing in the morning – this time of the year I rely on the easterly at my back to get me to the 5:30am ride on time. And suffice it to say that if I forget to check and the wind is not at my back, I actually have to work hard to get to the start on time…

And while SPR Saturdays attracts the most riders, our mid-week morning rides come highly recommended. SPR Thursday and Little Ring Tuesdays in particular.

See you out on the bike.

The Rotary Tour of Blackwood is fast approaching – Saturday 12 March. Now in it’s 5th year it has quickly established itself as a challenging tour of one of our most spectacular regions of WA – the Blackwood River Valley.

The region was sadly affected by recent bushfires however the Event organisers confirmed last week, despite this and COVID-19 concerns pertaining to Events, it is on. We have more than 25 SPR riders registered and there’s still time to enter this Charity ride (3 courses to choose) supporting youth mental health by providing funding to Blackwood Youth Action Inc for at risk youth counselling in the region.

Entries close Wednesday 9 March so don’t snooze, see https://www.blackwoodtour.info.

For SPR specific queries please email race@southperthrouleurs.com.au.

 

AusCycling WA State Criterium Championships – This Sunday is the State Champs and entries close tonight midnight.

https://entryboss.cc/races/10077

From the Ride Coordinator – This weekend will see the return of some “old favorites” in relation to ride routes for both Saturday and Sunday rides. The long weekend usually means a little less traffic on the roads both days so the rides routes chosen for this weekend use some of our more busier roads. It’s also likely that given what’s happening with the pandemic at the moment we will also see very light traffic so it’s time to try our hand back on those roads.

For our main ride on Saturday, we will be returning to one of our original ride routes and that is Shelley Mosman. This ride route is almost the reverse of the classic river loop we do so for all those who regularly ride the EBR, they will be mostly heading back the way they came when they cross north of the river. We haven’t been able to schedule this one for well over a year due to the roadworks at the corner of High Street and Stirling Highway that has taken forever but they are now done and we have a whopping big roundabout to negotiate now with faster moving traffic so we wanted to test the waters when the traffic is hopefully light. If you are new to SPR in the last 12 months, please click the link below and check the route out before you go as you would not have ridden it with SPR.

Similar theme to both of Sundays ride choices which head up Greenmount Hill. Another busy road on a normal weekend. We hope that the light traffic conditions afforded by the long weekend make that one a bit more pleasant for riders.

Whilst we are on Sundays Hills ride, just a reminder that the Sunday Short Hills Social ride will revert back to a 7am start, whereas the faster short hills and the long hills ride will stay at a 6am start time. If you are a regular rider of Sunday Hills, please discuss with your fellow riders.

FootNote: the Sunday coffee ride is also reverting to back to a 7am start – so enjoy the extra hour in bed everyone.

Happy Labour Day long weekend.

Saturday 5th March

Sunday 6th March

Monday 7th March Labour Day Public Holiday

Tuesday 8th March

  • Ride starts under the Narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
  • Ride starts Frasers ave at 5:45am
    • Development group – interval training kings park

Wednesday 9th March

Thursday 10th March

Friday 11th March

Ride Routes 26th February – 4th March

Entries close tonight midnight for Henk Vogels Snr Memorial & Renae’s Race.

There are nearly 200 entrants in this Sunday’s race, with over 30 SPR members across all women’s and men’s grades. We will have SPR van and tents out, so do come down to watch what should be an excellent morning of racing.

All the details below.

The Rotary Tour of Blackwood is fast approaching – Saturday 12 March. Now in it’s 5th year it has quickly established itself as a challenging tour of one of our most spectacular regions of WA – the Blackwood River Valley.

The region was sadly affected by recent bushfires however the Event organisers confirmed last week, despite this and COVID-19 concerns pertaining to Events, it is on. We have more than 25 SPR riders registered and there’s still time to enter this Charity ride (3 courses to choose) supporting youth mental health by providing funding to Blackwood Youth Action Inc for at risk youth counselling in the region.

Entries close Wednesday 9 March so don’t snooze, see https://www.blackwoodtour.info.

For SPR specific queries please email race@southperthrouleurs.com.au. 

Kit shop open – The Mayeur shop is taking orders for SPR kit. This order closes 1 March so get on it!

Go to the shop here.

 

 

Henk Vogels Snr Memorial & Renae’s Race – This event is RCCC’s biggest event of the year. And rightly so. It aims to celebrate the lives of Henk Vogels Snr and Renae Baker, one a man who dedicated much of his life to the promotion and love of cycling, the other a young lady taken way too soon by an insidious disease.

For those not familiar, I encourage you to read the history of the race here.

Enter online here, and follow updates on Facebook.

Many will be aware that there have been a number of coaching sessions offered for our female riders at RCCC and 4Five+ races over the summer. Men, now it is your turn. RCCC and GB Coaching are pleased to offer a skills session for C and D grade male athletes as part of the Henk Vogels Snr Memorial / Renae’s Race program.

Get tips on bike handling and cornering from two time Olympic Gold Medallist and ex-professional cyclist Graeme Brown. Enter here and follow on Facebook.

Criterium racing this weekend – If you want to race, or get in on the action watching others race, read on.

1. RCCC Henk Vogels Snr Memorial & Renae’s Race

2. WCMCC Kewdale Criterium

 

From the Ride Coordinator – So a couple of changes to signal this week regarding some of our ride choices. I’ll start with “the dirty stuff”!

This weekend (ie this Sunday the 27th February) sees the return of the monthly SPR gravel ride on the Heritage trail and optional Chidlow extension. We are reinitiating this ride after our summer hiatus to coincide with those that might be training for the SeVen event in May. This ride will be lead by one of our dedicated volunteer ride leaders and departs from the carpark opposite the Darlington post office at 7.30 on Sunday. Just a cautionary note, as it hasn’t rained up there in a while please make sure you choose you most “gnarly” of tyre choices because at this time of year it can be a little slippy. Probably perfect training for the SeVen event.

The second thing we would like to signal is the “unwinding” of the summer start times for our Sunday rides throughout March. So the regular riders of our Sunday coffee ride and the Sunday Social short hills ride will experience a move back to a 7am start time on the first weekend in March – which makes it Sunday the 6th March (or the long weekend if that is easier to remember). Please note that this is only for the coffee ride and Sunday Social Short Hills groups. We have had requests from members of the regular short hills and long hills groups to keep the start time at 6am for a further few weeks in March so that will remain at 6am. We managed these requests OK going into Summer where we had disparate start times for these groups so we should be able to manage coming out as well. But we wanted to signal the change out a few weeks ahead and hope that people are reading down this far and not skipping to the routes by now 😀 

I guess we will find that out in a few weeks time.

Saturday 26th February

Sunday 27th February

Monday 28th February

Tuesday 1st March

  • Ride starts under the Narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
  • Ride starts Frasers ave at 5:45am
    • Development group – interval training kings park

Wednesday 2nd March

Thursday 3rd March

Friday 4th March

Kit shop is open!

The kit shop is open…but get in quick it is closing again on 1 March.

Remember, the jersey is designed to be a snug fit…there were a few ‘looser fits’ at the recent club photo. 😉 And think about whether you could do with the extra leg length in the long bib-knicks…

South Perth Rouleurs

Ride Routes 19 – 25th February

Saturday just gone saw the 3rd & final race in the 4Five+ Athlete Collective Sanctuary Crit Series for Women at the Speedome Midvale.

Some of our Members & Riders had their first foray into Crits, some into Racing generally and there was a hot field of encouraging & experienced racers to help us novices.

A special acknowledgement to the Fine Young Cannibals (named after the old SPR Cannibal kit) – Kirstie Moore, Amy Currie & Belinda Evans for their 3rd place overall for the Series!

SPR Member & Chaotic Energy founder Teneal Attard won A/B Grade on the final night in a thrilling throw finish (and new Max HR) and Anne Bramley also SPR Member and CERT rider won overall 4Five+ rider for the Series!

Also on the Podium through the Series were Kirstie Moore and Amy Currie Race 1 C/D, Rhianna Farrell and Kirstie Moore Race 2 A/B/C+.

Our thanks again to 4Five+, sponsors, all contributors & volunteers for this unique, inaugural Event, we loved it … 

  • SPR Chicks
  • SPR Chicks
  • SPR Photo
  • Fine Young Cannibals – 3rd Overall
  • SPR Chicks
  • Fine Young Cannibals – 3rd Overall
  • SPR Chicks
  • Series Winner – Anne Bramley
  • Podium Race 2
  • Everyone

Henk Vogels Snr Memorial & Renae’s Race – This event is RCCC’s biggest event of the year. And rightly so. It aims to celebrate the lives of Henk Vogels Snr and Renae Baker, one a man who dedicated much of his life to the promotion and love of cycling, the other a young lady taken way too soon by an insidious disease.

For those not familiar, I encourage you to read the history of the race here.

Enter online here, and follow updates on Facebook.

Many will be aware that there have been a number of coaching sessions offered for our female riders at RCCC and 4Five+ races over the summer. Men, now it is your turn. RCCC and GB Coaching are pleased to offer a skills session for C and D grade male athletes as part of the Henk Vogels Snr Memorial / Renae’s Race program.

Get tips on bike handling and cornering from two time Olympic Gold Medallist and ex-professional cyclist Graeme Brown. Enter here and follow on Facebook.

Criterium racing this weekend – If you want to race, or get in on the action watching others race, read on.

1. PDCC Summer Criterium Series 2021-22 #7 (entries closed 😥)

2. WCMCC DRMC Criterium

 

From the Ride Coordinator – So one of the main elements of our SPR ride etiquette is the expectation of all riders who want to ride with us to familiarize themselves with the ride route before we embark on each ride. And the reason why it’s so important to riding in a group is pretty simple, make a wrong turn and you can injure yourself and your fellow riders. We’ve had feedback in the past “well my Garmin/Wahoo/bike computer will tell me when to turn”. My response to that is well if your looking down to work out when to turn, you’re not looking ahead at the dynamic of the group. Either scenario all you’re doing is creating a risk that is unnecessary if you familiarize yourself with the route beforehand.

So why is that important for this specific blog post? We have that expectation every weekend don’t we ? Well yes but if you intend to ride our long hills ride route you may notice that we are introducing a new ride this weekend “Ryecroft Thomas John Forrest” so it will be imperative for you to review the new route before your ride so please do yourself and your fellow riders a favour and click on the link below to check it out. Also stay tuned over the coming months as we introduce a few more ride choices for Sunday!

Saturday 19th February

Sunday 20th February

Monday 21st February

Tuesday 22nd February

  • Ride starts under the Narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
  • Ride starts Frasers ave at 5:45am
    • Development group – interval training kings park

Wednesday 23rd February

Thursday 24th February

Friday 25th February

AGM – 2022

The South Perth Cycle Club Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Saturday 26th  March 2022 at 9:00am. The AGM will take place at DOME Westralia Plaza (5/167 St Georges Terrace, Perth) following the usual Saturday ride.

With continued COVID-19 restrictions, the committee wish to advise there will not be a buffet breakfast available that has been a part of AGMs in previous years. However, we ask all those attending the AGM to adhere to the current COVID-19 restrictions, including masks, proof of vaccination and signing in using the Safe WA app.

Each year at the AGM, all office holder and general committee positions are declared vacant. In order to keep the club moving forward and meet the needs of all our members, it is important that the SPR committee is representative of our broad membership.

For this reason, we ask to all to consider joining the committee, regardless of how often you ride or how long you have been a member of SPR. Initial indications are that the club will need at least 3 new committee members for 2022.

Positions on the committee include:

  • President
  • Vice-President
  • Treasurer
  • Secretary
  • Race committee representative
  • Ride Coordinator committee representative
  • Women’s Interest committee representative
  • Kit committee representative
  • Community Development committee representative
  • Training and development representative
  • Membership & Communications representative
  • General committee members

There is also an opportunity to assist the club on the following sub-committees, and new volunteers are always welcome:

  • Race sub-committee
  • Kit sub-committee
  • Community sub-committee
  • Women’s interests sub-committee
  • Training and development sub-committee

With the exception of the office holder positions, all nominations are as a general committee member and all other roles are agreed/assigned by the committee at the first meeting after the AGM.

If you are interested in joining (or continuing on) the main committee or one of the sub-committees, please email admin@southperthrouleurs.com.au.

Please note that to be a committee member or to vote at the AGM you must be a current financial member. You can sort your membership out here.

Nominations are due by Friday, 18th March 2022.

After the success of online voting from previous years, online voting will be used for our Committee election, with the results being declared at the AGM. Voting will commence on 19th March 2022 and conclude on 25th March 2022. All members eligible to vote will receive an email at the beginning of the voting period to advise them on how to place their votes.

Ride Routes 12 – 18th February

You know we want you there … don’t forget! SPR Club Photo. 7:00am 12 Feb before the Saturday ride. That’s this Saturday.

We are delighted to have the photo taken by none other than the Mr Zac Williams – Perth local and cycling photographer extraordinaire. Check out ZW Photography for more.

Please muster from 6:45am so that we can take the photo promptly at 7:00am and get the rides underway.

Important: We’d love to have as many members in the photo as possible, but there are some requirements to make the cut. In the interests of an amazing photo, uniformity is key – you know it looks better when we’re all in the same kit.

So, the rules:

  • Current Mayeur club kit only (no exceptions)
  • No bikes in the picture
  • No helmets
  • No sunglasses
  • No ride leader jerseys

Updates: We’ve had some queries back and forth from a few of you so here are some updates: First, if you don’t have the current jersey do ask around – if a loaner gets you in the picture (so to speak) who is going to complain 😎. Second, please wear plain black knicks if you don’t have the SPR knicks – we may move you round (back row anyone?) to get the best visual but we can work with that.

Mandy McEvoy

Committee updates – Most of you will know Mandy, but I would like to formally welcome her into the committee role of Membership & Communications (who would have guessed!).

Mandy has agreed to step up and take on this role until the AGM as Claire Tyrrell has needed to take a step back.

I would take the opportunity to that Claire for her contributions. We have been very thankful for the skill she brings to writing, and hope we can feature her again in the future. Thanks Claire!

Equally, as most as you will have noticed, Mandy has been adding much colour and flair to our social media presence – both on Facebook and Instagram – as well as supporting Amanda and the Women’s Interests subcommittee. Welcome Mandy.

Lights – Quick reminder regarding lights. The days are getting shorter again – keep this in mind as you head out to our EBRs.

 

 

 

Criterium racing this weekend – If you want to race, or get in on the action watching others race, read on.

1. 4Five+ Sanctuary Summer Series #3

2. WCMCC Wangara Criterium

 

From the Ride Coordinator – Was riding along Bourke Drive this week during one of the clubs training rides and our small but committed band of SPR riders came up behind another larger group of cyclists. From a fair way back we could see this group was squeezing 4-5 abreast across single lane and half wheeling. Unbelievably for a group involving myself 🤣, we were actually going faster than the group ahead and it wasn’t going to be long before we would need to call out “bikes back” and pass the group ahead. Before we made that call and before the group ahead could hear us, someone from our group spoke out to all of us, suggesting “let’s show this group how we ride at SPR and how it should be done”.  We then made the call to the group ahead, rolled around them in single file and quickly regrouped again ahead of the other group.

You might be questioning why I am telling this story, you may be even thinking “yeah that happens all the time in my rides as well”. Well, having ridden in Perth now for the last 6-7 years, it’s my view that those that have ridden with SPR understand the importance of ride etiquette to the safety of the group, especially the need to make calls, (bike/car back/ahead etc).  This ride etiquette is yet another point of difference for our club, is crucial to our core values of organised and safe and another reason why so many Perth riders choose to ride with us on our group rides. If you haven’t read it in a while, check it out here. If you’re new to the club, it’s talked through on our development rides and if you’re coming back to the club after an absence please reacquaint yourself with the expectations that we have on riding with us. It’s so much more enjoyable getting back to the coffee shop in one piece to share the story that you just helped create on the ride compared with nursing a broken bike or body back home because you or someone else didn’t make a call at the right time.

Saturday 12th February

Sunday 13th February

Monday 14th February

Tuesday 15th February

  • Ride starts under the Narrows (cityside) at 5:30am
  • Ride starts Frasers ave at 5:45am
    • Development group – interval training kings park

Wednesday 16th February

Thursday 17th February

Friday 18th February

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