Event: Woodford to Glenbrook Classic – Sunday 25 June 2006. The Woodford to Glenbrook Classic, which is a major fundraising event for CareFlight, is organized in conjunction with the Blue Mountains Rural Fire Service.
MEDIA RELEASE: Wild Horizons, organizers of the 2006 VAUDE Highland Fling MTB Marathon announce that entries for the event will open on 12 June. Entries are only available online on www.wildhorizons.com.au and are limited to 1100 riders. Riders can enter as a Full Flinger (100km), Half a Fling (55km) or relay team Flinging Threesome.
“Around the Bay” is one of the world’s biggest and most popular cycling participation events. On Sunday 15 October, the largest number of cyclists in Australia will get together to challenge themselves, their colleagues, friends and each other in a single day ride around Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne Victoria.
No matter how old you are, what type of bike you ride, or how much riding you’ve done, we invite you to take up the challenge and commit to one of this year’s four ride options:
Based on previous years, entries for Portfolio Partners Around the Bay in a Day® will fill very quickly. To avoid disappointment, please take note of the following key dates – set yourself a reminder and get in early!
10 May-11 May: Entries exclusively available to Bicycle Victoria and Team Members, to both The Legend 250km and ATB Challenge 210km Rides.
12 May: 250km and 210km entries open to all
15 May: 100km entries open to all
20 May: 42km entries open to all
23 June: 250km, 210km and 100km early entry offer closes
25 August: 42km early entry offer closes
Check out the details in our Cycle Calendar or…
For more information go to… http://www.greatrides.com.au/
The first ever Australian MTB Marathon Championship will be held in September this year as part of the Flight Centre Cycle Epic to be held near Toowoomba in South East Queensland.
In an Australian first for the sport of mountain biking the nation’s peak mountain biking body, Mountain Bike Australia (MTBA), endorsed the Flight Centre Cycle Epic as the inaugural 2006 Australian MTB Marathon Championship.
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Sydney commuters are ditching cars for bicycles in a bid to avoid record petrol prices.
New car sales have fallen and bicycle stores are the big winners, cashing in on the move towards alternative transport modes. The cost of unleaded petrol in Sydney surged to almost $1.40 a litre last week on the back of rising world oil prices and is tipped to rise even further next week.
Sales at Sydney’s Clarence Street Cyclery have climbed by around 15% in the past 18 months, largely as a result of petrol prices. The biggest sales coming from the middle-aged baby-boomers, with health and fitness incentives also playing a role.
Australia has returned to the top in the 4km teams pursuit with a stunning victory at the Track Cycling World Championships in Bordeaux, France.
The Australian quartet of Mark Jamieson (TAS) 21, Peter Dawson (WA) 24, Matthew Goss (TAS) 19, and Stephen Wooldridge (NSW) 28, stopped the clock at 4min01.491sec to defeat Great Britain (Stephen Cummings, Rob Hayles, Paul Manning and Geraint Thomas) by 36 hundredths of a second (4min01.527sec) in one of the closest fought gold medal finals in World Championship history.
The Australians were half a second up after one kilometre but the Brits fought back to within a tenth of a second by halfway. Australia rallied to stretch the margin to 0.4 of a second with one kilometre remaining and from there both teams laid it all on the line. The Brits edged ahead with two laps remaining but the Australians refused to say die and clawed back the lead to secure the gold medal.
Get the latest results from Cycling Australia
Earlier this month Australian Formula One driver Mark Webber urged motorists to look out for cyclists when driving.
Speaking at the launch of the Amy Gillett Foundation in Melbourne, Webber revealed he accepted the position as a Patron of the Foundation after being profoundly affected by Australian cyclist Amy Gillett’s death in Germany last year.
The Amy Gillett Foundation has been established to promote safe and harmonious relationships between cyclists and motorists. With bike sales outnumbering cars – Australians have bought over 1.1 million bikes each year for the last five years – and 35 deaths and 2,500 serious injuries involving cyclists each year, the majority involving a motor vehicle, this road safety message is becoming increasingly important.
Australian cyclist Ben Kersten took out silver in the 1km time trial at the track cycling world championshipts in Bordeaux, France
Britain’s Chris Hoy got revenge on Australian rival Ben Kersten today by winning the 1km time trial for a third time at the track cycling world championships.
Hoy, who also won the title in 2002 and 2004, clocked 1 minute, 1.36 seconds to beat Kersten (1:02.08) after the Australian famously upstaged the Brit at the Commonwealth Games last month.
Frenchman Francois Pervis placed third.
“I went really hard, I didn’t feel so much pressure,” Hoy said at the Bordeaux velodrome.
Find out all the results at the Australian Cycling Federation website.
Searching through Google’s Video* and there are some great videos to watch. Some shockers as well, but check out the Aspire BMX links below. Has some great BMX riding with a really cool soundtracks.
*Google Video is in beta. Lets hope they decide to keep it.
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