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Angus claims major award
11/08/2010 00:00
Angus claims major award
BY NICK MCGRATH
11 Aug, 2010 07:54 PM
ORANGE Cycle Club rider Angus Tobin has been crowned the NSW under 19 rider of the year.
Based on points scored in races competed over the Cycling NSW Road Series winter season, Tobin won the gong from tough riders Sam Spokes...
State Titles from the Back by Owen Macphillamy
10/08/2010 20:48
NSW State Titles
Tale from the back of the bunch.
The states were hard!
Darryl Grant Cycles lent Mick, Joe and I the van for the trip to Kurrajong. We hit the road at 5am on Sunday and it was a balmy -5. It was a tough bunch we had 1/4 of the bunch having returned from either racing...
NSW State Cycling Championships
09/08/2010 11:31
State Road Championships.
Owen Macphillamy, Mick Troy and Joe Szpytko headed down to Kurrajong on Sunday morning for the NSW Cycling State Championships. Owen and Mick racing in the combined U23/Elite race that was covering 165km and 5 laps of a demanding course including a brutal 2km climb...
Taper
07/08/2010 16:42
Last ride today for the boys before tomorrow's State Championships. Mick decided that he would head out and meet the Orange bunch and brave the freezing, frosty conditions while Owen (possibly smartly) headed out in the afternoon for a roll.
Mick was seen to be policing the back of the bunch...
Thursday Ride
05/08/2010 20:08
Today Mason and Mick headed out for Mason's usual Thursday lunchtime jaunt, with Mick taking it a bit easy heading into the weekend's state Championships, did a bit of sitting on (except for when the road tilted up hill). Mason being a driving force into the headwind, coupled with rain and...
The Week
04/08/2010 16:07
A quiet week for FFi riders leading into the state championships this weekend. That does not mean that we won't be participating in the shop ride tonight from DG Cycles heading out to Lucknow and back then off to the Canobolas Hotel for $10 stake and salad... Hope to see some of you readers...
UPDATED: FFi Training Now with Garmin Link
01/08/2010 12:37
Owen and Mick had a great training jaunt today, briefly joined by Mason and Jeff. Here is the link to the ride uploaded from Mick's Garmin.
Did Panuara, Forrest Reefs, Milthorpe for a hot chocolate and then back to Orange with a smashing headwind and the clouds obscuring more and more of Mt...
NEWS FLASH: Garmin Files
30/07/2010 15:46
Attention All: New posting of some of the Garmin files from FFi Rider Mick Troy's Quarq Powermeter and Garmin Edge 500 can now be viewed online, with speed, distance, power, elevation, cadence and many other metrics to be viewed!
Orange Club race @ Forrest Reefs...
Mulga Bills
25/07/2010 00:00
The inaugural Mulga Bill's Handicap was held on the weekend just past. A strong turn out, 50 riders, representing Orange, Bathurst and Dubbo clubs, faced a potentially fast course, out and back from Yeoval to Badry on the Renshaw-McGirr Way.
Although touted as a flat course by several of the...
Wheely’ good time assured... CWD
23/07/2010 00:00
Wheely’ good time assured
LISA GRIPLAS
23 Jul, 2010 10:04 AM
Yeoval is set to turn on the razzle dazzle for the next three days as it catches the cycling craze for the fifth year.
When Banjo Paterson first purchased Mulga Bill’s two-wheeled outlaw 114 years ago he never dreamed this...