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Ride Routes 13th – 19th November (TOMR 2021 Edition)

I sat down today to reflect on the week that was, with the club participating in the Tour of Margaret River held in Nannup over the weekend. From a whole range of perspectives, it was a huge success. The chance to race though some of the South West’s best countryside. Opportunities for club members to participate together in our sport in new and exciting ways. The chance to grab some podium glory with teammates.

I’ve attempted to gather some key photos of all of our teams, and their successes for tonight’s blog. Enjoy. And keep your eyes out for posts in upcoming days where our teams will share their stories.

But before we get to photos, stay with me just a moment to capture the highlights. This year saw SPR field nine teams in club colours (not to mention the many members racing in other teams – some shoutouts below), with 6 mens and 3 womens teams. Finding ways to encourage and support women’s participation in the sport of cycling is something that has been a focus within SPR for many years, and this year’s result is a credit to our SPR Chicks with 33% of SPR teams being female – a statistic that reflects very favourably when you consider that overall the TOMR 2021 saw female teams make up 22 as compared with 146 male teams (some 13%). Not to mention that in particular both Womens 2 and Womens 3 teams saw a number of riders both new to SPR and new to a stage race like the TOMR.

The weekend also saw many of our teams earn kudos and respect in achieving podiums. Congratulations go to our podiums (and honourable mentions!):

  • Mens 5 – 1st Place overall (Division K)
  • Mens 4 – 2nd Place overall (Division F)
  • Mens 3 – 3rd Place overall honourable mention (Division G)
  • Anny Kidd (Women’s 2) – Winner in the Stage 3 Road Race (Division WB)
  • Adam Ralph (Mens 5) – 2nd in the Stage 2 Road Race (Division K)

For full results see https://my.raceresult.com/173520/results.

It would be remiss not to take the opportunity to thank SPR Race Committee Member, Steve Burns, Race Subcommittee members Maurice & Boon, and the team of volunteers for the huge amount of work put in to enable the smooth administration and support the club was able to provide all of our riders.

Please accept our most humble thanks and appreciation. Seriously.

SPR is a large community, and I do want to send a shout out to the many members who had opportunity to race at the TOMR in other colours – many achieving some great results, most notably Chaotic Energy x Animalius as the overall winner in Womens Division A. Shoutouts to Chaotic Energy Racing (2 womens teams), Dome Coffees Cycling Team (2 mens, one womens and one mixed team), VeloFit Australia Racing Team and the 4F Racing Team. Truly wonderful to see so many club members participating.

Let me also offer a huge thank you to event organisers Brendan Morrison and Rebecca Cotton, together with their entire team, in making the Tour of Margaret River possible. It is the largest cycling race in Western Australia and one of the absolute highlights of the club’s year. Thank you.

Finally, thank you again to our sponsors, whose generous contributions saw every rider fully kitted out in club colours. And looking mighty fine. Thank you Pilbara Resource Group, Drillman, Total Marine Technology (tmt) and Cathay Mortgages Pty Ltd.

Now some photos, and scroll right to the bottom for ride routes. Photo credits Zac Williams, James Pei Yee Tan and Mike Stroud.

Mens 5 – 1st Place overall (Division K)
Mens 4 – 2nd Place overall (Division F)
Anny Kidd (Women’s 2) – Winner in the Stage 3 Road Race (Division B)
Adam Ralph (Mens 5) – 2nd in the Stage 2 Road Race (Division K)
SPR Womens 1
SPR Womens 2
SPR Womens 3
SPR Mens 1
SPR Mens 2
SPR Mens 3
SPR Mens 4

SPR Mens 5
SPR Mens 6
Legendary SPR Volunteers

SPR Christmas Party – Get a ticket to our annual Christmas Party, 2021 Edition.

See all the details here.

 

SPR Chicks Trash & Treasure Picnic – One woman’s trash is another woman’s treasure! Here’s an opportunity for our women and girlfriends to share and swap cycling gear that is no longer needed, or surplus to requirements, and enjoy afternoon tea on the club.

See all the details here.

 

SPR Kit Update – Check out some more SPR goodness hitting the streets soon.

Keep you eyes peeled for SPR Specialized water bottles.

 

 

From the Ride Coordinator – So anyone riding during the working week just gone in the morning will appreciate the forecast for this weekend. It seems a very long time ago that we would be boasting of both days being over 30 degrees with mins around mid teens, but yay, here it is this weekend. Dare we dream that an actual summer might be just around the corner!!

With the advent of warmer weather our numbers are also likely to swell, and we ask that all riders, whether experienced or not to avail themselves of the expectations we have for riding on our rides. You can read all about this on our ride etiquette post which can be found here. Some of those with a good memory maybe thinking, “hang on, wasn’t this highlighted in early September so why are they saying it again?”. Well yes, we did but it’s worth repeating again now with more riders expected to ride with us again this weekend. And also because the core values of our club (inclusive, organised, safe and social) are neatly woven into the ride etiquette post and so we are very keen for everyone to have read it. Our ride leader briefings at the start of each ride will also reinforce the things to be aware of for the ride ahead, so we ask for the courtesy of all riders to concentrate for just a few minutes and listen to what our ride leaders are saying. You never know, but you might just pick up on something you didn’t know that will get you back to the coffee shop in one piece.

At the end of the day, we want everyone to enjoy group riding with SPR by making it as safe as we can and that relies on everyone understanding they have a role to play in safely riding in a group.  (edited) 

Saturday 13th November

Sunday 14th November

Monday 15th November

Tuesday 16th November

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

Wednesday 17th November

  • Ride starts Raffles bike path at 5:30am
  • Rides start at Coode St carpark at 10:00am
    • Mid-week – <not this week>

Thursday 18th November

Friday 19th November

Ride Routes 6th – 12th November

As you may have noticed over recent weeks, many of us are heading down south for the Tour of Margaret River this weekend. A record 9 teams – 3 womens and 6 mens.

For those of you staying home, enjoy the quieter ride and coffeeshop experience.

I would also like to again highlight and thank our sponsors – Pilbara Resource Group; Drillman; Total Marine Technology (tmt) and Cathay Mortgages Pty Ltd – for their generous sponsorship of our club’s participation in the 2021 Tour of Margaret River, Australia’s largest cycling road race, and the highlight of our club’s annual calendar.

I wish safe travels to all our riders, volunteers and support teams.

And top quality racing. Bring it on!

SPR Christmas Party – Get a ticket to our annual Christmas Party, 2021 Edition.

See all the details here.

 

SPR Chicks Trash & Treasure Picnic – One woman’s trash is another woman’s treasure! Here’s an opportunity for our women and girlfriends to share and swap cycling gear that is no longer needed, or surplus to requirements, and enjoy afternoon tea on the club.

See all the details here.

 

SPR Kit Update – Check out some more SPR goodness hitting the streets soon.

Keep you eyes peeled for SPR Specialized water bottles.

 

 

From the Ride Coordinator – The SPR green machine will be representing us all this weekend down the Tour of Margs. Good luck to all the teams entered this year. Weather conditions look favourable for the next few days and all of you have trained really hard over the last few months. Here’s hoping you all meet the goals and aspirations that you have set yourselves. Special shout out to Steve Burns who not only organised a successful club TTT in Jarrahdale a few weeks back but has done a magnificent job in coordinating the tour of Margs teams, accommodation and training options along the way. A huge effort and one that should be acknowledged. Thanks Steve.

If you’re not heading down south, our metro show rolls on with one of our favourite ride routes making a comeback after a few months in hibernation. Yes it’s the return of South Street this weekend.

One final reminder for those that are looking for an intro or mid week slower ride our monthly mid week, mid morning ride is planned to roll through again this Wednesday leaving Coode Street at 10am.

Saturday 6th November

Sunday 7th November

Monday 8th November

Tuesday 9th November

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

Wednesday 10th November

Thursday 11th November

Friday 12th November

SPR Christmas Party 2021

The SPR Committee is pleased to announce the club’s Christmas Party 2021 Edition.

I look forward to seeing you all there!

The Christmas Party will be held on Sunday 5th December at a cost of $30 per head including one drink. See our flyer and the SPR shop for the all the details.

Tickets available now in the SPR SHOP here.

SPR Chicks Trash & Treasure Picnic

One woman’s trash is another woman’s treasure! Here’s an opportunity for our women and girlfriends to share and swap cycling gear that is no longer needed, or surplus to requirements, and enjoy afternoon tea on the club.

Date: Sunday, 21st November 2021

Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Venue: Coode Street Carpark, look for the SPR flags

Bring: Cycling bits & bobs to gift, swap or sell

RSVP: Via the SPR Chicks Facebook Page so we know how many people to cater for.

Ride Routes 30th October – 5th November

Congratulations to our winners of the inaugural Jarrahdale Team Time Trial held last weekend. It was good to see the strong turnout from the club, and nice to see some new kit on show – SPR TOMR and Chaotic looking good.

All the results are on MyLaps:

– Team results

– Individual results

Check out the winners below and see all of our photos on Facebook.

Winners – Womens Division 1 – Chaotic Energy x Animalius
Winners – Men Division 1 – SPR TOMR Mens 1

Winners – Womens Division 2 – Avoca A Team

Winners – Mens Division 2 – Dome Coffees Mens 2 (**)

Winners – Mixed 1st – Dome Coffees Cycling Team Mixed
Winners – Mixed 2nd – The Wheel Deal

(**) Sorry Dome Mens 2, we did not have a podium photo so this will have to do 🤣

SPR Kit Update – Check out some more SPR goodness hitting the streets soon.

Keep you eyes peeled for SPR Specialized water bottles.

 

 

From the Ride Coordinator – Congratulations to all those who participated in the lead up events to the Tour of Margs last weekend (Tour of Gracetown and the club TTT), only 1 more week of training to go, perhaps you’re thinking of tapering already.  Wouldn’t it be a shame to waste all of that training through a little inattention on the road this weekend. For those that have been around a while and those ride leaders who volunteer every weekend, we all know that “inattention” is the number one cause of crashes within our club and that cause is 7 times more prevalent than the next one down the list. “Inattention” can be a lot of things, from looking down at your bike computer at the wrong time, to chatting away and loosing awareness of what’s ahead of you and many things in between. The underlying contributing factors can be things like fatigue, choosing the wrong group to ride in, not knowing the ride route or simply being distracted with day to day personal issues . Whatever it is, inattention is not good for any riders but especially those that are 1 week out  from the ToMR. Over the years I’ve seen so many last minute “hard luck” stories of riders being injured a week or two out from major events. Sure, not all of them would be through inattention, but our stats suggest that this is the one to be aware of. I say that not to jinx anyone this weekend but draw this to your attention because we want you to get back safely to have coffee after all our rides and we especially want everyone who’s done the hard training yards to enjoy the event in the first weekend of November.

PS – just a quick reminder for those who like the red dirt stuff, the monthly SPR gravel ride is in this Sunday again, starting at 7.30 from the Darlington Post Office. Hope to see you there.

Saturday 30th October

Sunday 31st October

Monday 1st November

Tuesday 2nd November

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

Wednesday 3rd November

Thursday 4th November

Friday 5th November

Ride Routes 23rd – 29th October

This week I want to highlight another event which has been a little in the background at SPR the past few years but is most definitely on this rise. Here is a snapshot from SPR Committee Member Carol Dowse.

Participation in the Tour de Gracetown (TdG) has simply exploded in 2021 with 61 cyclists and a support team of another 15 family and friends.

The first SPR representation in the Tour de Gracetown (TdG) was in 2018 with 27 members, inspired by Anna Lim who had participated the previous year with six women. Since then it has crept up in numbers from 28 in 2019 to 32 in 2020 and now doubled for 2021. The event is run on the Saturday with a long or short ride route option and for the first time we have a follow up social ride on the Sunday.

Many members now make this a long weekend with the focus on participation, inclusion and getting to know each other, not only the cyclists but family and friends. But don’t worry that we are getting too soft, there are serious riders wanting to better their times from last year or trying their hardest for the first time.

SPR Kit Update – Check out some more SPR goodness hitting the streets soon.

Keep you eyes peeled for SPR Specialized water bottles.

 

 

SPR Mid-week Ride – Our mid-week ride is on again, this time ably lead by Michael Barry.

Ride Route: modified shelley 30.56km spr mid-week

Frequency: Fortnightly

Time: 10am meeting

Meeting point: Coode Street car park South Perth

Average speed: Expected 20-22kmh (no drop)

This will be a no-drop ride (stopping as many times as required to meet group ability), with all styles and levels of bikes welcome. Keep in mind that they will need to be compliant to Australian standards and fitted out to meet road riding laws including lights/reflectors front and rear and bell. Helmets are mandatory for all SPR rides. Water bottle or camelback essential.

This ride is intended to build skills and confidence to any person who is unable to make our main Saturday development or transition rides and will be lead by SPR ride leader.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out via Facebook or email Carol on comdev@southperthrouleurs.com.au.

SPR Team Time Trial – This year we have changed location of the team time trial to the Shire of Jarrahdale, on a course similar to Stage One for the Tour of Margaret River.

The Perth Dauphane to the TOMR.

Entries have closed. Expect to see a few less people at coffee Saturday as we have all of our TOMR teams participating at Jarrahdale.

Read all the details here: https://entryboss.cc/races/7947

From the Ride Coordinator – OK so this week our main rides are going to look a little different. We will still be doing one of our regular ride routes (spoiler alert- one of our famous foothills climb up RidgeHill Rd) . And we will still be leaving Coode Street from 7am. Perhaps the difference you might see is the amount of riders/ride groups/ride leaders leaving. This Saturday we have the clash of two big events for the club. As well as holding our (now) annual lead up TTT to the Tour of Margaret River (~20 teams of 6) we also have a strong contingent of riders (50+) heading down south for the one day “classic” Tour of Gracetown. Good luck to all those SPR members riding in either of these events this weekend, I’m sure you’ve all done the training and the weather looks to be a cracker.

For those not participating in either event, rest assured the club will still be holding its regular Saturday and Sunday rides and we have enough trusty ride lead volunteers left to cover what will be less groups and riders leaving the car park.

Whatever cycling you choose this weekend, please enjoy it and come back safely.

Saturday 23rd October

Sunday 24th October

Monday 25th October

Tuesday 26th October

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

Wednesday 27th October

Thursday 28th October

Friday 29th October

Ride Routes 16th – 22th October

Our Women Interests Subcommittee is doing some excellent work, most recently running an afternoon session on food and nutrition – Fueling for Endurance.

Thank you to Nutritionist Lesley Burch and Passionate Foodie Mandy McEvoy who ran the session. I have it on good authority that everyone had a wonderful afternoon, walked away with plenty of healthy and cycling-relevant food ideas.

I invite all women to join our SPR Chicks Facebook Group keep in touch, and look out for upcoming events.

SPR Kit Order Arrival – This week is good news on the SPR kit front.

We have two kits orders available for pickup this Saturday at Dome after the ride.

  1. Our most recent SPR kit order
  2. Our sponsored Tour of Margaret River 2021 kit

The regular SPR kit order will be available from R&D Speedshop Claremont from 1pm.

I would also like to offer thanks to our sponsors for nine SPR Tour of Margaret River 2021 teams. Thank you Pilbara Resource Group, Drillman, Total Marine Technology and Cathay Mortgages.

SPR Team Time Trial – This year we have changed location of the team time trial to the Shire of Jarrahdale, on a course similar to Stage One for the Tour of Margaret River.

The Perth Dauphane to the TOMR.

Teams of 6 riders (minimum 4 riders) and the 4th rider will stop the clock. Teams will be released on regular intervals of between 1 and 2 minutes.

It is a great warm-up for the Tour of Margaret River to train your team skills.

See all the details and enter here: https://entryboss.cc/races/7947

From the Ride Coordinator – So for those very long time members or perhaps those waiting in anticipation for “the call up”, you may be wondering why we haven’t seen an announcement around a call for expressions of interest in ride leading. And the reason is pretty simple, we need the time to do it justice.

We are very proud of both the history of our ride lead programme and our current crop of dedicated volunteers who help guide our weekly main rides on Saturdays and “unofficially” represent us on weekly training rides. As a club, the programme helps differentiate ourselves from other riding clubs and is a central element in the delivery of our core values of safe, inclusive, organised and social.

Given the importance of the programme we didn’t just want to “shoe horn” it in between the Tour of Margs and Christmas time. It was traditionally a tight timeline to complete, and inevitably rain affected, so we have decided to move the programme to February next year. So if you are thinking of wanting to join our band of ride lead volunteers, we will put the call out before Christmas and begin the training programme in the new year.

Saturday 16th October

Sunday 17th October

Monday 18th October

Tuesday 19th October

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

Wednesday 20th October

Thursday 21st October

Friday 22nd October

Ride Routes 9th – 15th October

I want to sent a shout out to our Tour of Margaret River Teams this week. We have a huge number of teams entered this year including 3 women’s teams and 6 men’s teams. Not to mention SPR members riding in a range of teams in and around the Perth cycling community.

For my part, our team spent last weekend in Nannup testing out our legs on the team time trial stages of TOMR 2021. See photographic evidence below. The South West of our state is beautiful this time of year. I won’t pretend to be the expert when it comes to team time trials but I can tell you that practicing with your team is worth the time spent – in particular for us adjusting the pace and power output to cater for the individual team members.

I also want to put out a call for a female rider to join the SPR Women’s 1 Team.

The team is needing one more rider due to a late change. If you are interested, we would love to have you. Please get touch via Facebook, or on either women@southperthrouleurs.com.au or race@southperthrouleurs.com.au.

PS I went looking for more photos and did not find lots… feel free to share training photos to the SPR group so I have more to choose from next time 🙂

SPR Team Time Trial – This year we have changed location of the team time trial to the Shire of Jarrahdale, on a course similar to Stage One for the Tour of Margaret River.

The Perth Dauphane to the TOMR.

Teams of 6 riders (minimum 4 riders) and the 4th rider will stop the clock. Teams will be released on regular intervals of between 1 and 2 minutes.

It is a great warm-up for the Tour of Margaret River to train your team skills.

See all the details and enter here: https://entryboss.cc/races/7947

Fuelling for Endurance – Come join Nutritionist and Executive Coach, Lesley Burch and Passionate Foodie Mandy McEvoy (both SPR Women) for an interactive afternoon in the kitchen discussing how to fuel for more than the Saturday club ride.  Recipes will be demonstrated and up for sampling, plus you’ll walk away a few little goodies designed to keep you energised whilst cycling and recovering well so you can keep turning those pedals!

See here for all the details.

From the Ride Coordinator – OK, so if you are a regular reader of this part of the blog (well done for getting down this far) your going to have a sense of deja vu in reading tonight’s post. If this is the first time that you read that the start times for all but one of the Sunday Hills rides is changing this weekend then perhaps you missed last weeks post. But because we are keen to make sure there is no confusion for anyone, and we don’t want to disappoint, we need to reiterate it again this week.

Our start times departing the Coode Street car park for this weekends Sunday Hills are as follows:

  • Sunday Short Hills and Sunday Long Hills – 6am
  • Sunday Short Hills Social – 7am

The primary difference between Short Hills and the social variant is speed and there are more regroups in the social short hills. The new difference is the start time for Summer. All rides will revert back to a 7am start from March onwards.

If you are a regular hills rider on Sunday,  please have a chat with your fellow regulars and ask if they are aware of the change as we want to make sure everyone is informed.

Saturday 9th October

Sunday 10th October

Monday 11th October

Tuesday 12th October

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

Wednesday 13th October

Thursday 15th October

Friday 15th October

Ride Routes 2nd – 8th October

This week I wanted to highlight what it means to be part of SPR. On one hand, it provides a way to belong and to contribute to a community that has formed around cycling and healthy living – captured in the club’s core values.

Safe. Inclusive. Organised. Social.

Another way of thinking about being a part of the South Perth Rouleurs is to think about what value you as a member receive: Things like safe and organised group rides, support & assistance participating in the sport of cycling – whether just learning or competing in racing across a range of disciplines – or taking part in community events ranging from purely social through to health, nutrition and lifestyle events.

There is also some formality to being a member. SPR is an affiliated AusCycling club – the national cycling organisation – and your membership fee gets you insurance and licensing which covers your riding, training and racing (depending on the license type you choose) as well as a small contribution to the club to enable it to do all of the things that it does. We also provide avenues for those who are members of other cycling-related organisations to join the club – see here for all the details.

Rather than write lots more, I have pulled together a range of images that provide a snapshot of what being a part of SPR is all above.

Enjoy.

  • An SPR member
  • Organised and safe group rides
  • Ride leaders
  • Doing it together
  • Coffee
  • Glorious group rides
  • More group rides
  • Racing and achievement
  • Off the bike
  • Lots of group rides
  • Challenging yourself
  • Group rides, at whatever pace
  • Health and nutrition
  • The Tour of Margaret River
  • Support at events
  • Belonging to a community
  • You and your bike
  • Support and camaraderie
  • All the cool kids
  • Crits
  • Travel
  • Community events
  • More crits

SPR Team Time Trial – This year we have changed location of the team time trial to the Shire of Jarrahdale, on a course similar to Stage One for the Tour of Margaret River.

The Perth Dauphane to the TOMR.

Teams of 6 riders (minimum 4 riders) and the 4th rider will stop the clock. Teams will be released on regular intervals of between 1 and 2 minutes.

It is a great warm-up for the Tour of Margaret River to train your team skills.

See all the details and enter here: https://entryboss.cc/races/7947

Fuelling for Endurance – Come join Nutritionist and Executive Coach, Lesley Burch and Passionate Foodie Mandy McEvoy (both SPR Women) for an interactive afternoon in the kitchen discussing how to fuel for more than the Saturday club ride.  Recipes will be demonstrated and up for sampling, plus you’ll walk away a few little goodies designed to keep you energised whilst cycling and recovering well so you can keep turning those pedals!

See here for all the details.

From the Ride Coordinator – Anybody notice the light starting to creep back in on our EBRs? Anyone else  thinking that it’s not quite as cold as it use to be when you first leave the house in the morning either? Tell me you noticed those (b)easterlies blowing us back down Benara Rd last weekend! These are sure signs we are moving closer to summer riding conditions.

With that we wanted to signal an upcoming change to our Sunday Hills rides start times. So from NEXT weekend (ie Sunday 10th October) we will be changing the start of our Long and Short Hills rides to a 6am start from Coode Street. This will continue all through to the end of Summer – with our last official ride at the earlier time slot being Sunday 27th February. One exception to this will be the Sunday Short Hills Social group, who after consultation with the current regular riders are keen to leave their departure from Coode Street to 7am until well into summer itself. We will post further advice on the change to this groups start times in the future.

So for all you Sunday Hills fanatics, enjoy your last Saturday night out late with a mini sleep in, because it all changes next weekend.  (edited) 

Saturday 2nd October

Sunday 3rd October

Monday 4th October

Tuesday 5th October

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

Wednesday 6th October

Thursday 7th October

Friday 8th October

Ride Routes 25th September – 1st October

For those that joined us last Sunday for the Water Tower Challenge, thank you. For many, it was an opportunity to get out on a longer ride they have attempted before. If not the longest. With support and excellent company on the journey. And it turned out to be pretty much the perfect day in terms of weather.

With two options – the Imperial (170km and 1,800m of climbing) and the Metric tonne (103km and 1,300m of climbing) – there was something for everyone.

Thank you to Steve Burns and our volunteers on the day for making it a wonderful event.

SPR Team Time Trial – This year we have changed location of the team time trial to the Shire of Jarrahdale, on a course similar to Stage One for the Tour of Margaret River.

The Perth Dauphane to the TOMR.

Teams of 6 riders (minimum 4 riders) and the 4th rider will stop the clock. Teams will be released on regular intervals of between 1 and 2 minutes.

It is a great warm-up for the Tour of Margaret River to train your team skills.

See all the details and enter here: https://entryboss.cc/races/7947

From the Ride Coordinator – This long weekend SPR has a plethora of ride options for you to consider across all 3 days – both off road and on road !!

Off road I hear you ask? Well yes we cater for that with our regular Sunday monthly gravel ride scheduled up for this Sunday. And by the look of the weather forecast, this Sunday is looking “wet wet wet”. You too can feel the mud in your fingers and possibly in your toes too. For the children who never grew up – this ride is for you! Come join us at 7.30am opposite the Darlington Post Office for some wet weather fun.

But before we get to Sunday, we have the return of those “beasterlies” starting again this weekend, so we will schedule one of our favourites to finish with that wind behind us – Benara Rd! Other than the wind, Saturday is looking like it’s going to be a cracker.

And finally, if you haven’t had enough of the wind, the rain and the mud and you’ve got something left for the public holiday, then there is always the public holiday ride to try. Let’s hope we get enough of a clear window in the weather on Monday so we don’t get wet. If we do, it may be the last dry weather ride for a few days thereafter.

Whatever cycling that you do, please be safe and look after your fellow riders.

Saturday 25th September

Sunday 26th September

Monday 27th September

Tuesday 28th September

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

Wednesday 29th September

Thursday 30th September

Friday 1st October