Eaton Dogs Thursday ride time change
The Eaton Dogs' ride now leaves near the entrance to The Coffee Club at Eaton Fair at
Back Beach Bike Blast
The second ever Back Beach Bike Blast was an amazing community & family friendly event put on by the Bunbury Triathlon Club and South West Cycle Club that attracted over 450 people on Sunday April 3rd 2016. This great Event is on again on Sunday 3rd April. The format will be the same as last year with each group challenged to beat their average speed from last year and only allowed to drop 2 riders. We are once again working in partnership with the Bunbury Tri Club who will be holding their club champs on the course beforehand, so can we please ask all riders to stay off the course until their event is finished. Event briefing at , Ride starts at sharp. Please register before the day here…
Australia Day public holiday ride
The Australia Day public holiday ride leaves from the Entertainment Centre at with regroups. The usual Tuesday & 40km group rides will not be held. However some riders from the 1 hour (Sears) group will be doing their usual ride, leaving from Hastie St car park.
Hot and windy for Dardanup TT
With a few people still on holidays there was a good turn out for the first midweek TT of 2016 but unfortunately the conditions were not exactly encouraging with the temperature still quite high and a gusty east south easterly wind that strengthened over the evening. Further impacting on times new rider Des Shearer took a wrong turn doing a few extra kilometres on the first lap while both Gary Hastie and Chris Howard took tumbles on the turn back onto Recreation Drive. It was good to see Gary get through the two laps without cramping however as it was certainly testing conditions and Chris Howard's time of including the fall and without tri bars was a great effort. Triathlete Anthony Marinovich was having his first go at the club…
Ride leader & group awards 2015
The continuing success of the club's Saturday group rides is due to a number of factors, including a great committment by members in abiding by the SWCC ride etiquette policy, which outlines how to ride in a group situation. But it is also the tremendous efforts by the club's ride leaders who strive to ensure that our rides are held in a safe and enjoyable manner. These efforts are much appreciated by the members of our club who also have a variety of other rides to choose from throughout the week. In recognition of the ride leaders' efforts, awards were given to the following ride leaders at the end of year function. Group 1 Kim Overington - always willing to put his hand up to lead rides, even when numbers…
Robbie Comes up with New Options
Undeterred by the original course already being dug up to accommodate a new gate, Robbie set about designing a new course using the significant amounts of hot mix on offer in the RCR yard. This week’s version had a couple of hair pins at each end meaning repeated accelerations were required over the course of the race which was always going to take it’s toll on riders’ legs. Most gave the course the thumbs up again however with requests to alternate between the loop and the hair pin course. Recognising that riders would be under pressure with the hair pins, it was decided to run three grades this week with juniors Josh, Isabella and Harrison slotting into C grade with Steve Camarri, John Hancza, Mark Thomas and Laurie Wilson. After…
Thumbs up for RCR Circuit
It was a thumbs up from riders testing out the first club criterium on the closed road RCR circuit that Robbie had organised. With no worries about cars and the buildings and plant sheltering the riders slightly from the blustery South Wester the hot mix circuit was fast and the corners friendly enough that bunches could stay together. First away were A grade with a field of nine riders up for the challenge of sticking with the likes of Bryce, Connor and Nicholas. Some early testing accelerations were quickly reeled in before Marten, fresh from a block of racing in Queensland decided to try a move. He quickly established a half lap break and despite strong efforts by Alistair Patterson amongst others this gap remained until around the 20 minute…
Personal Bests All Round
It is almost guaranteed to become cold and wet when we start running our Marg Stoffers midweek TT’s and the first event at Dardanup for the 2015-16 season was no exception. Fortunately there were only a few spots of rain and the gusty South Westerly died away over the course of the event making conditions near perfect as the night wore on. As a result there were almost personal bests all round with improvements ranging from a few seconds by Nicholas who was still struggling with his gears through to gains of two minutes or more by many of our juniors who once again had the chaperones under significant pressure. First away were Lowan and Ian Ferry with Lowan completing his first ever TT in a great time of …