SSCC Club Events		NSWCF Open Events
2003
Mar-03
Fri 28th	Last Twilight Race until Oct
Sun 30th	Sutherland Shire CC Track Championships Dunc Gray Velodrome 1pm
Apr-03
Sat 5th Sun 6th	Steve Roper Timetrial 8:00.  Kurnell	Sat 5th
Fri 11th - Sun 13th	Training Camp at Kangaroo Valley
Sat 12th	Waratah Park 2 pm C/D Grade 30mins + 3 laps, 3 pm 35 mins + 3 A/B Grade #2 circuit.	Sat 12th
Sat 19th	SSCC Espresso Sweepstake Series, A Grade 8.30 30mins + 3 laps, B Grade 9:00 20 mins +3 , C Grade  9:30 20 mins +3 all on number 2 circuit	Sat 19th
Sat 26th	Waratah Park Handicap C+D, A+B. 2 pm 35mins + 3 laps #3 circuit		Canberra Tour Cancelled
May-03
Sat 3rd	It Hurts' Timetrial 8:00 Waterfall Station	Sat 3rd - 4th	Wagga Wagga Junior Two Day Tour
Sat 10th	Waratah Park Pointscore 2 pm C/D Grade 30mins + 3 laps, 3 pm 35 mins + 3 A/B Grade #2 circuit.	Sat 10th	Cootamundra "Haycarters Open"
		Sun 11th	Cootamundra "Haycarters Recovery "
		Sat 10th - 11th	Bathurst Women's & Junior 2 Day Road Tour (Inc. NSW Hill Climb Champs)
Sat 17th	SSCC Espresso Sweepstake Series, A Grade 8.30 30mins + 3 laps, B Grade 9:00 20 mins +3 , C Grade  9:30 20 mins +3 all on number 2 circuit	Fri 16th - Sun 18th	UCI  Track World Cup - DGV
Sat 24th	You are encouraged to enter the Ken Dinnerville Handicap. Training Ride from Waratah Park leaving at 7am to Centennial Park and return
		Sun 25th	Ken Dinnerville Memorial - Dapto
Sat 31st	Tasman Shield Timetrial 8:00 (Training Ride) Depart Clubhouse at 07.00 for Waterfall	Sat 31st	Southern Cross CC - Junior Metro/Country Road Championships
		Sat 31st	Wagga Motors Open 120km Handicap Race
Jun-03
		Sun 1st	Southern Cross CC - Junior Road Open
		Sun 1st	Albury - Wagga Scratch Race's
Sat 7th	Working Bee 9am in preparation for club open next day BBQ + BEER !!!	Sat 7th	Sydney Road Championships at Parramatta Park
Sun 8th	Make sure you are either racing or helping out at the Sutherland Shire Criterium	Sun 8th	Sutherland Shire Criterium
		Mon 9th	Randwick Botany Snowy Wilson Memorial Crit
Sat 14th	Tasman Shield Criterium Waratah Park 2pm	Sat 14th	Mudgee Road H'cap
		Sun 15th	Mudgee Graded Criterium Races
Sat 21st	Tasman Shield Handicap Waratah Park 2pm	Sat 21st	Grafton 2 Day Road Events (80km Handicap Road Race)
		Sun 22nd	Grafton 2 Day Road Events (5Man 100km Team Time Trial)
Sat 28th	Waratah Park 2 pm C/D Grade 30mins + 3 laps, 3 pm 35 mins + 3 A/B Grade #2 circuit.	Sat 28th	Rosemount Estate Open
		Sun 29th	Muswellbrook Explorer
Jul-03
Sat 5th	SSCC Espresso Sweepstake Series, A Grade 8.30 30mins + 3 laps, B Grade 9:00 20 mins +3 , C Grade  9:30 20 mins +3 all on number 2 circuit	Sat 5th	NSW Hill Climb Championships
		Sun 6th	St George Road Open
		Sat 4th - 6th	U19 Junior Tour Of Canberra
Sat 12th	Interclub at Randwick Botany,Races Start at 14.30	Sat 12th	Keegan Downs Memorial H'cap
		Sun 13th	Gunnedah - Tamworth
Sat 19th	Waratah Park Pointscore 2 pm C/D Grade 30mins + 3 laps, 3 pm 35 mins + 3 A/B Grade #2 circuit.	Sat 19th	CNSW State Criterium Championships at DGV
		Sun 20th	Parramatta Road Open inc. U19M/U19W & Women Road Champs
		Sat 26th- 27th	Southern Cross 2 Day Women's Tour
Sat 26th	Geoff Bradbury 1 Day Tour 9am start TT,Crit, RR	Sat 26th	Nyngan to Dubbo Cancelled
		Sun 27th	Dubbo Criteriums Cancelled
Aug-03
		Sat 2nd	Randwick Botany Junior Carnival
		Sun 3rd	St George Junior Open
Sat 2nd	TTT Handicap Race at Waratah Park 2 x 10 Lap races for all Teams. 2 pm start #3 circuit.	Sat 2nd - 3rd	Tamworth 2 Day Road Tour
Sat 9th	SSCC Espresso Sweepstake Series, A Grade 8.30 30mins + 3 laps, B Grade 9:00 20 mins +3 , C Grade  9:30 20 mins +3 all on number 2 circuit	Sat 9th	NSW Junior Criterium Championships
		Sun 10th	NSW Individual Time Trial Championships
Sat 16th	TTT Preparation ride Handicap Race at Waratah Park 2 x 5 Lap races for all Teams. 2 pm start #2 circuit.	Sun 17th	NSW Club Team Time Trial
Sat 23rd	Waratah Park Snowball Pointscore 2 pm C/D Grade 30mins + 3 laps, 3 pm 35 mins + 3 A/B Grade #2 circuit.	Sat 23rd	Masters State Road Championships
		Sun 24th	Tolland Masters 75km Road Race
		Sat 23rd	Junior State Road Championships (ITT)
		Sun 24th	Junior State Road Championships (RR)
Sat 30th	Waratah Park Handicap C+D, A+B. 2 pm 35mins + 3 laps #3 circuit	Sat 30th	Cootamundra Annual Cycle Classic
		Sun 31st	Cootamundra Annual Recovery Race
Sep-03
Sat 6th	SSCC Espresso Sweepstake Series, A Grade 8.30 30mins + 3 laps, B Grade 9:00 20 mins +3 , C Grade  9:30 20 mins +3 all on number 2 circuit
Sat 13th	Waratah Park Omnium (Points, Scratch, Elimination) 2 pm C/D Grade , 3 pm A/B Grade #2 circuit.	Tues 9th - Sun 14th	National Championships and Club Premiership
Sat 20th	Waratah Park Handicap C+D, A+B. 2 pm 35mins + 3 laps #3 circuit
		Sun 20th	Grafton - Inverell
Sat 27th	Waratah Park Madison 2 pm C/D Grade 25 laps, 3 pm 30 laps A/B Grade #2 circuit	Sat 27th	Hornsby Criterium Cancelled
		Sun 28th	Hornsby - Swansea
Oct-03
Sat 4th	SSCC Espresso Sweepstake Series, A Grade 8.30 30mins + 3 laps, B Grade 9:00 20 mins +3 , C Grade  9:30 20 mins +3 all on number 2 circuit
Sat 11th	Club Road Championships at Dapto
Sat 18th	Waratah Park Handicap C+D, A+B. 2 pm 35mins + 3 laps #3 circuit	Sat 18th
		Sun 19th	Sthn Hemisphere Cup
Sat 26th	Club Tour + Hill Climb champs- End of Season detune to Southern Highlands and Silly Awards	Sat 26th	Hinchinbrook Criterium Cancelled
Fri 31st	Twilight Racing 2003/2004 Begins

Twilight Criterium 31st Dec 2004
Latest Sutherland addition Troy Glennan lit the blue touch paper early for the New Year’s Eve ‘A’ grade race.  Chris Guillan (Southern Cross), Dave Treacy (FRF/RBCC) and Jeff Jones (CyclingNews/RBCC) made an early escape  on the number 2 circuit and once Glennan had bridged across they established a 40 sec lead before changing to the  hilly #3 Circuit. Glennan then kicked away from the lead group eventually winning by over 1 minute. Jones led the trio onto the home strait only to be overhauled by the ever improving junior rider Chris Guillan with Treacy in tow for third.
B grade saw Junior MTB’r Andrew Arthur (Sutherland) take the win after establishing a break early in the race with Kate Nichols (Clarence St) second. The pair worked well together to and continued to gain time as the bunch made sporadic moves to bring them back. Blake Field (St George) took the bunch gallop from Veteran rider Richard Vial (Sutherland).
C Grade played into the sprinters hands/legs with the bunch staying together and saw junior Matt Guillan (Southern Cross) win the sprint holding off Royce Herbert (Sutherland) and Phil Loxley (Sutherland)

Twilight Criterium 3rd December 2004
A mild 21 evening with a steady southerly breeze greeted the riders to their weekly dose of competition on the hilly Sutherland circuit.
Prof. Peter Hatton (Clarence St) performed an assessment after the first prime won by Wazza Scott (St George) that the bunches probability in catching a solo break was inversely proportional to the number of sprinters in the bunch minus the number of friendly MTB’rs multiplied by those hanging on for grim death down the back and left the bunch behind claiming the second prime and first place followed 30 secs later by last weeks winner Peter Fitzpatrick (St. George) with Scott third and Dan Brickell (Sutherland) fourth.
Alex Frame (Sutherland) was able to go home and feed the wife and kids this week after winning the B grade bunch sprint. Team mate Richard Vial took Frame to the front in the last laps and no one could match the firepower Vial unleashed as the bunch trickled in. Tyrone Attard (Penrith) was second and Matt Hood (St George) third. Prime winners were Paul Kean (Illawara) and Paul Ambrose (Sutherland)
After a blistering attack from the start line by Tim Rundle (Sutherland) there were numerous attacks all race but the ever improving Troy Fisher (Sutherland) took out the bunch gallop in C grade from James Rankin (Sutherland) second and David Macefield (Mcarthur) third Phil Loxley was the Prime winner.Twilight Criterium 26th November 2004
A beautiful 23c summers evening with a slight southerly breeze greeted the riders.
Peter Fitzpatrick (St. George) kept the  sprinters green jersey in the family by winning the A grade dash for the line after overhauling Dan ‘Mullet’ Brickell (Sutherland) in the final yards with Prof. Peter Hatton (Clarence St) taking third. Prime winners were Dan Beresford (Sutherland) and Peter Jones (Illawarra).
In B Grade Matt Wild (Southern X) showed his fast finishing again by taking out the gallop from Paul Ambrose (Sutherland) and Tyrone Attard third. Primes went to Mark Goodwin (Sutherland) and Aaron Richardson (Eastern Suburbs).
C Grade was a Sutherland Trivecta.
Peter Cooper and Bob ‘Sit-on’ Knezevic made a break with 4 laps remaining and worked well together until the last lap where Pete kicked away from Bob on the last lap climb to take the win with Bob second and Troy Fisher taking out the bunch gallop. The prime went to Michael JaK (Sutherland)Twilight Criterium 19th November 2004
The Hot and sultry conditions endured for the last few days were replaced by overcast and threatening skies as a southerly blew in and provided intermittent showers throughout the evening.
When Trent Butler (Lidcome Auburn) shot past the other riders to take the first prime it looked like he had the A grade win in the bag.... then with the Gruppetto Compactobunch all together comingg into the bunch sprint Perren Delacour (Sutherland - YETI) found the nitrox switch to convincingly take the win with Butler second and Peter Jones (Illawarra) third.
B grade saw the welcome return of (the Danish based S.A.T.S team rider) Rochelle Gilmore who this year has had more than her fair share of setbacks with a few crashes and a knee operations to contend with. Rochelle was just  pipped on the line by fast finisher Matt Wild (Southern Cross) with Triathlete Paul Ambrose (Sutherland) third.
C grade was a Sutherland Trivecta with some developing new riders soon destined for B grade. Royce Herbert took out the bunch gallop from Anthony Roberson in second and Troy Fischer third.

Twilight Criterium Series 12th November
A warm balmy evening saw over 70 riders competing in the Twilight Criteriums.
A grade looked for an upset when the duo of Dave Treacy (St. George) and Danny Beresford (Sutherland) escaped from the clutches of the bunch with 5 laps remaining.  However Beresford felt the strain and dropped back to the bunch with Treacy left dangling. Six riders made the break across to Treacy with 2 laps remaining and worked well together to hold off the chase pack.  Steve Fitzpatrick was amongst the seven and again his sprint was too strong for Nelson Santos (LA) and Troy Glennon (St. G). The prime went to Peter Hatton (Clarence St). 
B Grade saw close racing with plenty of attacks going in but a bunch finish saw Tyrone Attard (Penrith) take the sprint from Matt Wild (Southern Cross) and Matt Hood (St G) third. Prime Winners were Phil Bray (Sutherland) and Daniel Thompson (Sutherland).
C Grade was another bunch gallop with Brendon Neilly (Sutherland) taking the gallop from Prime winner Stuart Lane (Southern Cross) with Phil ‘Legs’ Loxley third.

Club Tour to Bundanoon 30+31st Oct
Inc Hill Climb Champs
Mild but sunny weather (even at the top of Macquarie Pass) provided the riders with optimal conditions in which to reach the Bundanoon Hotel. After Beloki Wood settled down the bunch hummed along to the bottom of the pass where ‘I haven’t touched my bike for weeks’ Delacour smoked everyone with a new club record time of 32.55. After numerous Pies and Pasties it was off to the Bundanoon Hotel for some refreshment and Quilt time. Day 2 saw some sore heads and tired legs but everyone gave their all with a strong finish back to the clubhouse.
Special thanks to George at Endeavour Cycles for the Prizes and use of the Support Van. Col Poulton for his support and timing. Cookie and Richard Vial for driving and Dean Mason for providing the best sit in the bunch !

Waratah Park Handicap 16th Oct 2004
The Handicap is always a favourite event for the masochists and only once the bunches are underway can the true form of the “I haven’t ridden for 10 years” “been on an Iron lung this week” “had flu this week” riders be dispelled as they blow up the other riders in their bunch!
The outmarkers consisting of Chris Booth, Mark Nicholls and Craig Hawkins managed to take the win from a hard chasing Scratch and block groups. The fast recovering (and Handicappers mate) Nicholls left his compatriots to solo in just ahead of Hawkins and 20 secs ahead of the chasing groups with the  fastest man from the scratch group Andrew Kilday taking third overall and Fastest time.

If you are contemplating participation in the twilight series you will need to get racing, there are only a few club races on saturdays left to get up to speed.

Omnium 9th Oct 2004
The Omnium event consisted of a Points Race a Scratch Race and an Elimination (or Miss ‘n Out) all held on the relatively flat 950m #2 circuit.
The combined A/B event saw some fierce sprinting in the first event with Andrew Kilday and Darren Cash breaking away after the first sprint and then going hammer and tong every 3 laps of the 15 lap event. Cashie took the win from Kilday with Mark Wall third and Peter Jones fourth. The 12 lap scratch race was won by Mark Wall after a lovely lead out from Peter Jones and with Kilday third and Cashie fourth. The elimination saw the current overall leader Mark Wall eliminated early and it was Peter Jones came from nowhere to take the win and the overall .

The C/D grade saw Phil ‘Pettachi’ Loxley comfortably winning the Points Race and Scratch Race but was unpleasantly surprised when he was eliminated first in the final race but still had the points to win the Overall.
If you are contemplating participation in the twilight series you will need to get racing, there are only a few club races on saturdays left to get up to speed.
 

Hornsby to Warners Bay 160km Sun 26th Sep
This was the second of the three Category 1 Teams events and the top class field, warm weather conditions and a testing course soon saw the field spread out over many km’s. After winning the KOM over the Moonie Moonie climb Ben Brooks (was was in the Cheeky Monkey Team) kept up the aggressive attacking that eventually split the field and saw the pro rider  (who normally rides for Jelly Belly in the USA)  also take out the win in a sprint finish from Robert Mclachlan (Caravello) and David Tanner (Sella Italia). Highest placed Sutho team rider was 20 yr old Peter Spencer in 12th with Daniel Brickell 18th, Darren Cash 20th and Andrew Kilday 25th. Brad and Col were forced to withdraw at the 100km mark as they were outside the 10minute cutoff from the leaders.
A big thankyou to Geoff Cook aka Cookie Monster and George Poulos from Endeavour Cycles who provided support for the Race.
 
Interclub at Randwick Botany Sat 25th Sep
Thankyou to the Randwick Botany club who made us most welcome. It was a typical Heffron Park day, a strong headwind along the back of the course and an assisting tailwind on the home straight. Congratulations to all the Sutherland Riders who made the trip to Heffron with lots of teamwork practice paying off. Riders who made the podium were Darian Wendt 3rd ‘D’, Neil Thorburn 2nd ‘C’ , Mark ‘Speedy Gonzales’ Goodwin 1st ‘C’ and John Peters 2nd ‘B’.
Handicap Waratah Park 18th Sep
With 3 laps to go the scratch riders comprising of Darren Bender and Ian Bradford finally caught the 8 outmarkers on the last lap Bob Knezevic and John Magic Shoes Peters did a flyer only to be caught and passed by Bradford on the home straight with Peters taking second and Neil Thorburn third.

Grafton to Inverell
Congratulations to all the riders who took part in the Classic Race, Kev, Col, Ed, Harry, Dan and Emma

Australian Road Champs Qld
Well done to Dan Brickel who was 7th in the TT and 11th in the Road race. Congratulations also to Tyler Mclachlan (Southern Cross) who won silver in the U/19 RR and Gold in the Criterium
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Canberra 12 Hour MTB Enduro
Congratulations to the Sutherland Riders of Paul O'neill, Scott Nolan, Brad Glennan (St G), Pearce Anderson and Wayne Anderson.
They won the category of team fives with 21 laps over second place who completed 20 laps.
Pearce Anderson did the fastest lap of the team 29:36. Fastest lap of the day was Matt Fleming 27:55 who is definitely married to Kimberly not Josh as reported on SBS
 

Club Road Race Champs Waratah Park 11th Sep
With riders competing in their age groups rather than the normal grading saw the field split up quickly in all the divisions. Congratulations to all competitors who all finished despite a blustery north westerly (21c)
Women - Emma Lovelock
Elite Men - 1st Darren Cash 2nd Darren Bender 3rd Paul Mad Dog McKenzie
Masters 2 1st Wayne Druery 2nd Andrew Herlihen
Masters 3 1st Ian Bradford, 2nd Tony Unicomb 3rd John Peters
Masters 4 1st Martin Hoyle, 2nd Phil Loxley, 3rd Craig Hawkins
Masters 5 1st Kevin Donovan 2nd Neil Thorburn 3rd Bob Knezevic
Masters 6 1st Chris Booth
Masters 8 1st Mark Nicholls 2nd Harry Berkery
 Trophies will be awarded to all the placegetters at the Club Presentation Dinner, 13th November at Tradies, Gymea
Watkins Real Estate Espresso Race 4th Sep
In the A/B combined event Anthony Spurgeon (Caravello) was lurking in the bunch (aka the King of Heffron Park) and attempts from the r riders to shake him on the fast number 2 circuit before the finish failed and Spurge’ took out the bunch sprint from Prime winner Daniel Brickell with Ian Bradford third.
After riding up from Wollongong as a warm up Jeff Gray (Illawarra) still had the legs left to take the gallop from Kevin Donovan and Andrew Herlihen. The prime went to Paul McKenzie.
The C grade race saw the ‘3 Amigos’ of Phil Loxley, Bob Knezevic and Allan Turnbull keep going after Bob won the prime leaving the main group in pieces and that’s ghow they finished
Snowball Point Score 28th August 2004
With a sprint every 2nd lap on the number 2 circuit and with more accumulating on every sprint saw some fierce sprinting initially and legs of jelly at the end!
Phil Loxley took out the C/D combined event with 22 points just edging out Bob Knezevic for second on 19 with the crumbs picked up by Darian Wendt for third on 3 points and Craig Hawkins fourth after winning the initial 1 pointer.
The A/B combine saw Ian Bradford on 18 points  win the last sprint and beat Darren Bender into second by 1 point, third was John Peters on 9 points with Paul Mckenzie 4th on 7 points. 
Some Photo’s from the TTT are now online, Hi Res available on CD more to come!!!Watkins Real Estate Espresso Series 7th Aug
A cool but sunny morning with a light southerly breeze greeted the riders for the A/B combined race. Recently returned Belgium pot rider Daniel Brickell took the win after jumping clear with Phil Neeves after Mark Jewell (Illawarra) took the prime and that was the order they finished. The B graders were all together for a bunch gallop which saw late riser Kev Donovan take the win from Daniel Thompson and Paul Mckenzie.
C grade saw new member Brad Abdy keep the pressure on all race and managed to Keep Bob Knezevic behind him for the win with Prime winner Andrew Crawford picking up third.Tasman Sheild TT Results
A sunny morning with no wind saw Dean    Mason joined this time by other (fairweather) clubmates after the last session was postponed. The Elite category saw Paul O’Neill win the event in a time of 25.20 after Darren Cash (who would have won with 24.21)  made a tardy start to the event and was penalised 11 mins. Phil Neeves took out third with 26.29. In the masters category Wayne Druery is finding his form after his holiday to easily win in 27.05 from Martin Hoyle in 30.04. The Ladies was won by the ever consistent Emma Lovelock in 31.42.

Sat 17th July Tasman Sheild Criterium
The blustery southerly wind and the threat of showers kept many riders away from the first stage of this trophy event (after the TT was postponed).
In the Elite Mens Race Josh Wall from (Illawarra) broke away from the pack and practiced his time trialling for 20mins to take the win with his club mate Peter Jones taking the bunch gallop from Paul Mckenzie and Phil Neves. The Masters and ladies race saw Ian Bradford and Col Young elope from the bunch after 20 mins with Ian being the Groom and Col the Best man. The closely fought bunch gallop was brought home by Andrew Herlihen with Emma Lovelock being the first lady over the line.
Sat 24th July will be the Tasman Road Race at Waratah Park and the 31st will see the TT in the morning at Waterfall with a club race in the afternoon.5th June Watkins Real Estate - Espresso Race
A combined A and B grade saw Gary Libro taking it easy... by attacking the combined bunch with 5 laps to go only to be caught in the last few yards by the charging bunch headed by Junior MTB’r Justin Case (Clarence St)who took the gallop from Peter Jones (Illawarra) second and Steve Fitzpatrick (St George) third for the A Grade category. A well deserved win for Gary Libro with Kev Donovan (Sutherland) second and Wayne Druery (Sutherland) third. Prime to PAul Kean (Illawarra)

A fast turn of pace ensured no one escaped from the C Grade bunch which saw Allan Turnbull (Sutherland) win the bunch sprint from Brendon Neilly (Sutherland) second and Jim Eades (Southern Cross) third. Prime to Kurt Adams (Bicisport)

29th May Geoff Bradbury Tour - Waratah Park
A pointscore totaling the results of the Criterium Timetrial and Road race plus bonus points for the KOM and Prime provided for competitive racing in all the grades.
A grade TT and Road Race winner Darren Cash was just too fit and fast in the end and held off Paul O’neill winner of the Criterium to win the Overall with Ian Bradford third.
B Grade saw Paul Kean dominate the Criterium and Time Trial and despite blowing up on the  Road Race had enough to secure the GC with Daniel Thompson second and Wayne Druery third
C Grade saw Andrew Herlihen take out the Criterium and Road Race and the Overall and win a free ticket to B grade with some great riding. In second overall was Bob Knezevic and third Allan Turnbull.
D grade saw Dean Mason dominate all the races to take the GC and also get a promotion to C grade. Daryl Moylan was second overall and Chris Booth third.
Congratulations to all of those who raced and supported the events. Photos and Results Here.

22nd May Waratah Park Criteriums
After Paul Mckenzie took the first prime Ian Bradford took the initiative and combined with Kev Donovan and Wayne Druery to escape the cluthes of the bunch and held that at 10 -15 secs for the remainder of the race. Last time up the hill Ian applied the pressure and got away with Jags and Wayne following and Mckenzie taking the bunch gallop.
Although C + D started together the C graders soon made the pace too high on the #3 circuit for all the D graders except for Tony Unicomb who took out the D grade with Dean Mason and Daryl Moylan a half lap down. Andrew Herlihenagain showed his sprinting power to overhaul Peter Cooper and Bob Knezevic in the gallop  

Results from the Illawarra Interclub 15 May
Report Courtesy Garry Doughty
A record number of 70 riders participated in the scratch races at West Dapto last Sunday. Sixteen came from the Sutherland Club. Near perfect conditions assisted to make the racing fast and furious. The fact that the races were held over the 9km short course also added to the speed and ferocity of some of the races.
A, B and C grades all raced five laps for their 45km distance while D grade raced 4 laps for their 36km.
While the A grade race was attack after attack it was the 28 riders in the B grade race that produced the quickest time on the day of 1:04:50, almost a minute faster than A grade.
There were many attempted breakaways in A grade but the one that was successful was by Adam Rourke and Dylan Forbes, who came in first and second. The pair crossed the line 6 seconds in front of the bunch that was led over the line by Peter Jones.
Sutherland’s Ian Bradford was very aggressive in the B grade race, but it wasn’t until he teamed up with Mark Davis that they were able to break the stranglehold of the bunch. The two worked very well together and crossed the line1:48 infront of the bunch and third place getter Kevin Donovan(Sutherland).
 C grade also had a large number of riders willing to try and get away even though there were 20 riders in the race. But in the end it all came down to a bunch sprint where Jason Johnson did what he does best and crossed the line in first place. The second place sprint was extremely close with Andrew Crawford(Sutherland) just holding off a very determined Ernie Hall.
Two Sutherland riders combined in the decisive breakaway in the D grade race and held off the bunch to win by 30 seconds. Dean Mason sprinted well and crossed the line just ahead of club mate Tim Rundle, both riders had given it their all. Vince O’Dwyer led the bunch sprint out and put 14 seconds into them in the final straight for a deserved third place.
Club president Pat Delahunty made the presentations for the race and concurred with Sutherland’s John Peters that the combine was a good success.

Cootamundra - Haycarters 70km Handicap
Congratulations to Mark Wall who won the race at the weekend. Cappucino’s all round, Grazia !

Bathurst Women’s Tour
Congratulations to Anna Sutton Winner of B grade at the Bathurst tour after winning two of the 3 stages!

Interclub - Dapto Please Note Time Change
Club racing heads south on the 15th May for a bit of real ‘on the road’ racing where the Illawarra Club are kindly an Interclub for us.
This is a perfect opportunity for those of you entered in the Ken Dinnerville Handicap event (which is on the 23rd of May, No late entries allowed !) to familiarise yourself with the course.
The race distance for all grades is 45km and will be split into A,B,C and D grades. Start time is at 14.00 from Don's Farm (which is at the western end of Avondale Rd, Dapto). Please bring your licence and $10 entry fee.
If you are not racing but can assist with Marshalling on the day and/or on the day of the KD Open then your assistance is required.
Please let me know if you will be attending so we can cater for you, and do a bit of car pooling!
Travel time from Sutherland is about an hour by car we will be aiming to leave Sutho’ at 12:00.
Don’s Farm is a pleasant Nature Reserve with BBQ facilities and toilets and is quite family friendly for those of you towing younger members around
How to get to the start.....
From Sutherland head down the Princes Highway towards Wollongong and Nowra once on the expressway, take second Dapto exit (first one says Kanahooka second one says Dapto), turn right onto Fowlers Road.
About half a km down road to Princes Hwy, turn left (south) at the Mobil service station. Another 2km down hwy to Huntley Rd turn right. 5km to the old Huntley colliery, veer right over small bridge, Don's farm is on the right.

Points Race - Waratah Park 8th May 2004
Like a Madison without the sling ?
The C+D graders were again tested with a Points Race with a difference. maybe they were the only ones who figured out how to get points but the Team of Andrew Herlihen and Phil Loxley cleaned up   on 19 pts with Peter Cooper and Greg Wormsley second on 14 and Bob Knezevic and Craig Hawkins on 9 also Alan Turnbull and Dean Mason on 9.
The A+B grade was a City versus Country with another win for the country with Joe McDonald (Illawarra) devouring all the points with assistance from Jeff Gray and Tim Devlin whilst Ian Bradford, Paul Mckewen and Mick Deluca were left to pick up the morsals! 

Watkins Espresso Series
A mild 19c winters morning with hardly any wind saw close racing in all grades with the A Grade race going to Daniel Brickell (SSCC) who just held off Bret Townsend (SSCC) and Joe McDonnell (Illawarra) in the dash for the line. Mark Wall took out the Prime.
B grade saw Skater Daniel Thompson take the sprint narrowly from Neil Thorburn and Fabrizio Tettoni (All SSCC). In C grade the Girl Power trio of Emma , Kerry and Sarah kept the guys in trouble but couldn’t hold on in the final sprint which saw Alan Townsend take the Gallop from Andrew Herlihen and Mark Nicholls (All SSCC)

Australian Masters Championships
Congratulations to all those who competed in the Champs and a special mention to the following medal getters....Already wearing more gold medallions than Fabio ! Mark Nichols won Gold in the Criterium and Road Race and Bronze in the ITT, Gaye Lynn won Gold in the Road Race and ITT and Silver in the Criterium, Kerry Percy a Silver in the criterium.

25th April SSCC Open at Waratah Park
Despite competing events the A,B,C and D Grade races were all well attended and saw some exciting racing.
D grade saw Junior U/19 rider Lewis Gailand of the Port Stephens club show his sprint form as he easily took the first prime and then the bunch gallop from Ron Rutherford (Northern Districts) and Lee Cameron (Eastern Suburbs) with Alan Shepard  (Sydney CC) 4th. 1st SSCC rider was Dean Mason after Emma Lovelock decided that age should come before beauty!
C grade saw Mark Wall (Sutherland) take the 1st Prime and then David Tracey (St George) the 2nd Tracey then kept going with a solo breakaway that lasted until 3 laps to go where he was collected by the bunch. In the gallop for the line Mark Wall took the win from Mark Goodwin (Sutherland) and Scott Ford (Sutherland with Matt Hood (St George) 4th.
B Grade saw David Wyman (LACC) easily take the win and the second prime from Josh Marsden (RBCC) who was the winner of the 1st prime , Charlie Topfer (LACC) and Grant Patrick (Southern Cross).the third prime was won by Chris Guillan (Southern Cross)
The A Grade event saw the Clarence St riders on the attack with Daniel Rutherford (CSCC) taking out the first prime and then Keith Evans (Midland) taking the second prime. Brad Mils (CSCC) immediately countered and started the move of the day by getting teammate Klayton Smith, Anthony Challiner (Parramatta) and David Vogels (SDCC) into a well working break. The only person to bridge across was Stephen Evans (Midland) and they managed to hold the break at 30 secs for the remainder of the race with Brad Mills taking out the two remaining primes. Klayton Smith took the win from Evans with Challinor third and Mills fourth. Perren Delacour was the first Sutherland rider. 

1The Scratch group of Gary Libro (who got fastest time), Col Young, Kev Donovan, Mark Wall, Ian Russell and Darren Bender finished a half lap down on the Handicap winner Andrew Herlimen. Herlimen started in the limit group who all showed a quick turn of pace in the early laps (much to the detriment of the others in his group) and Herlimen successfully made contact with the well “coached” group of Martin Hoyle, Emma Lovelock, John Brennan and Darian Wendt. Now they had to try and get rid of him to no avail ! Martin Hoyle brought in the main bunch from Darian and Emma and John with Peter Cooper who also started in the limit group soloing in for 6th
0th April Ominium Waratah Park

3rd April Espresso Round 1

A Grade
1 Scott Ford - Sutherland 2 Geoffrey Butler - Sutherland 3 Mark Wall - Sutherland  Prime Mark Wall
B Grade
1 Kev Donovan - Sutherland 2 Neil Thorburn - Sutherland 3 Jeff Gray - Illawarra
Prime John Anderson
C Grade
1 Mark Nichols - Sutherland 2 Phil Loxley - Sutherland 3 James Eades - Southern Cross
Prime Andrew Harlimen - Southern Cross
Twilight Racing 19th Mar ‘04
Another warm autumn evening of 23c with a light southerly breeze saw some inspired racing after George from Endeavour Cycles donated a case of wine to be used as primes!
Steve Fitzpatrick (St.George) instigated a break after the 1st prime (won by Chris Guillan - Southern Cross) that saw Dan Brickell (Sutherland) and eventually Sam ‘Big Dog’ (after his rear mech cable broke) Lee leave the rest behind and collect the remaining primes and that’s the order they finished.
B grade saw Dylan Forbes from Illawarra again on the attack collecting 3 primes before being scooped up by the bunch. Matt Hood (St George) take the bunch sprint from Daniel Thompson (Sutherland) and making his final appearance before the immigration officials caught up with him David Warwick (Sutherland) for third.
C grade saw fast finisher James Rankin take the bunch gallop from Stephen Barclay and Mark Nicholls (All Sutherland) with the primes going to Mark and Grant Beamish
 

Twilight Racing 19th Mar ‘04
A beautiful autumn evening of 23c with a light southerly to cool off the sprinters on the home straight saw bunch finishes in all of the grades.
Sam Lee (St George) took out the A grade sprint from Perren Delacour (Sutherland) and Peter Jones (Illawarra) third. The prime went to newly promoted Scott Ford (Sutherland).
B Grade saw Trent Butler (Lidcombe/Auburn) take the sprint comfortably from the Southern Cross lead out of Keegan Aitchison and Grant Patrick.
C grade was an all Sutherland affair with another strong sprint from Peter Lang holding off Darian Wendt and Peter Cooper. The prime went to James Rankin

Twilight Racing 12th Mar ‘04
The rain squalls kept coming on Friday despite the record 40C + temps at the beginning of the week. Only the ‘Belgium hard men’ of C and B grade ventured forth with A grade preferring the Boyles Hotel for a post race debriefing.
In B grade David Warwick ‘fresh’ from the Jindabyne training camp went on the attack from lap one. He eventually broke away with Mick de Luca and the two stayed away with Dave taking the Prime and the win with Mick second and Mark Thompson winning the bunch gallop for third.
C grade saw the bunch stay intact with Phil Loxley   winning the prime and the closely fought bunch sprint from Darian Wendt second and John Brennan third. (All Sutherland)Twilight Racing 5th Mar ‘04
A pleasant 24c evening with a light southerly breeze provided a comfortable evenings racing at Waratah Park.
A grade saw the early withdrawal of sprinter Steve Fitzpatrick who was still suffering the effects of a fall at  last weekends track carnival leaving the field sprint open to all. With 5 laps to go MTB’r Josh Flemming (FELT) decided it was time to go it alone but was soon joined by Brett Townsend (Sutherland) with the rest of the bunch at 30secs. At 2 laps to go Flemming and Townsend were still clear vith a group of 3 riders trying to bridge the gap. On the final lap The 3 riders were collected by the bunch with 200m to go but still ahead were Townsend who won the sprint from Flemming with Peter Jones (Illawarra) taking the bunch gallop for third (and the 2 primes).
B grade saw Paul Mckenzie pay for an early solo getaway by being dropped later in the race with the baton taken up by Dylan Forbes (Illawarra) who kept going after winning the prime and almost held off the bunch but had to be content with second after he was collected in the last 100m by Trent Butler (Lidcombe Auburn) but held off Keegan Aithchison (Southern Cross) who was third.
Bob Knezevic (Sutherland) not only won the bunch gallop in C grade but also a one way ticket to B grade with his awesome sprint  display. Hot on his heels were Peter Lang (Sutherland) second and Peter Hopper (Manly) third. The Prime was won by James Rankin (Sutherland) who showed why you should never sit up before the line.

Twilight Racing 27th Feb ‘04
A rainy first half of the week and a cool change saw a mild 23c evening with a light southerly breeze facing riders on the home straight.
With the MTBrs away the National Champs (at Eildon, VIC) it was again a night for the sprinters.  With all the escapees collected and a bunch gallop the decider in all the grades.
A Grade. 1st.Steve Fitzpatrick  - St. George / FRF 2nd. Warren Scott - St George 3rd. Peter Jones - Illawarra. Prime Peter Jones
B Grade. 1st.Mark Goodwin - Sutherland
2nd. Scott Ford - Sutherland 3rd. Trent Butler - Lidcombe/Auburn)
C Grade. 1st.James Rankin - Sutherland
2nd. Christian Homan - Lidcombe /Auburn 3rd. Stephen Barclay - Sutherland
Primes Mark Nicholls - Sutherland
 

Twilight Criterium 13th Feb 2004
Another humid sultry summers evening with 26c and a light southerly in the riders faces on the home straight. 
With some riders still recovering from Sunstroke and abrasions inflicted from the 40c+ Canberra tour last weekend, riders were happy to sit back and let someone else do the work.
Geoff Cook (Sutherland) went on the offensive from the gun and was dangling in front of the bunch until they heard the whistle for the first prime which brought them all back together and saw Jeff Hopkins (Jittery Joes) in the money. Cook again kept going and was soon joined by Monsieur Brow (aka Shaun Higgerson Randwick / FRF) and the Prof (Peter Hatton - Clarence St). The trio managed to hold the sprinter filled bunch at around 20 secs but could not reel them back in. The Prof won the the 2nd prime and finshed 2nd overall with Monsieur Brow taking the win and the  Cookie Monster third.
B grade saw Tim Adams(Nowra) take the bunch sprint and the prime comfortably despite efforts of a snake intent on crossing the track mid race. Brett Townsend (Sutherland) was second and Grant Patrick third (Southern Cross).
Womens Australian Road Champ Leonie Aisbett (Paramatta) gave the boys a good caning in C grade taking both the prime and the win from Stephen Barclay (Sutherland) and Darren Wendt (Sutherland). I

t’s a Girl
This is what happens when you don’t go out on those long rides! A special welcome into the world for Genevieve Chalmers daughter of proud parents Tim and Julie Chalmers.

It’s a Boy!
Congratulation to Dean and Michelle Morris on the birth of their son Charlie. Apparently Charlie arrived a little early because he could’nt wait to get out and see daddy race on a friday night ! Mother and baby are resting in hospital and are both doing well!

Twilight Race Series
The Twilight Races are now running every Friday evening throughout the summer. Please note that on advice from the NSWCF, junior riders under 17 years of age will not be able to compete in the A,B, + C grade races.   If we have sufficient numbers then a separate junior race will be run at 5.15pm
 
NSWCF Race surcharge
Please note that the NSWCF has introduced a $1 ‘track development’ surcharge fee for all riders competing in club races during the summer months. If you don’t think you should be subsidising the track let the NSWCF know
Canberra Tour 6-8th Feb 2004
With the tour brought forward from its normal Easter Weekend hot weather 30c+ took its toll on the riders. Congratulations to all the SSCC riders who competed of note with the highest GC position was Anna Sutton who was 2nd in the women’s B grade, Daniel Brickell won the 1st Stage in men’s B. Jags 2nd in the first stage of the Masters. Well done to everyone who took part !
MTB XC National Series
Fellcrag, Queensland 7th Feb 2004
Congratulations to Perren Delacour who was second in the Elite men’s MTB XC

Twilight Criterium 6th Feb 2004
With a lot of the local riders attending the Canberra tour this weekend numbers were down but the racing and the temp (31c) were both hot!.
Steve Williams (Sutherland) riding his last friday night of the season before he departs on his Airport Fire Fighting training wanted to get a result and signalled his intention by taking out the first Prime with a ‘Pettachi’ like sprint . The high ‘A’ Grade pace saw riders being shelled and the lead bunch whittled down to single digits. Last week’s winner Chris Pascoe won the second prime and with only 5 laps remaining the bunch had reduced to a sprint derby of 5 riders Williams, Pascoe, Chris Guillan (SX), Dave Treacy (StG) and Josh Flemming (SORCC). Williams led out the sprint on to the home straight and the rest of the bunch had no answer with Pascoe holding on for second and Guillan third.
B Grade saw Joe Mc Donnell take out the win, the prime and a free trip to A Grade next week!
After the first prime Paul McKenzie (Sutherland) went on the attack and a group of 8 went away leaving the rest of the riders strung out and unable to get back on. The group stayed away and in the bunch gallop Mcdonnell just held off the ever improving Keegan Aitchison (SX) with Grant Patrick (SX) 3rd who were desperately trying  to hold off Katie Brown (StG).
C Grade saw strongman Craig Waghorn (LA) go on the attack early, won the first prime and then returned to the bunch who were content to finish in bunch gallop. In the sprint Graham Horn took the sprint from Bob Knezevic and Stephen Barclay (all Sutherland) after Waghorn let them off lightly after he had pulled his foot at the bottom of the circuit.  

3rd Wildside MTB powered by SRAM - NE
Tasmania, Australia, Jan 31-Feb 3, 2004
Congratulations to club members Perren Delacour (3rd in the Men-Open Overall), Saul Britton, Anna Sutton (5th Overall) and Alison Anderson on their great rides in this epic event.
Twighlight Criterium 30th Jan 2004
Another sultry summers evening (23c witha light southerly) plus a few large raindrops to keep the dust down.
In A Grade Shaun Higgerson (Randwick Botany) aka ‘the Brow’ took out the win showing that he is not just a pretty face (despite the pierced eyebrow). After escaping the clutches of the sprinters with Strong Man Sammy Lee (St George) in the last few laps ‘Brow’ won the sprint from Lee and left Chris Pascoe (Dubbo)  to take home third from a small chasing group which contained some of the top sprinters (Fitzpatrick, Wozza and Hopkins) who wanted a bunch finish followed by the main field. Primes to Mich Pearson (Eurobadalla) and Sam Lee.
B grade saw a more sedate pace this week with a bunch gallop taken oiut by G. Patrick (Southern Cross) from Scott Ford (Sutherland) and Adam Proudlock (Southern Cross). Primes to Ford and Tim Adams.
With Michelle Duval (Southern Cross) promoting herself to B grade. the C grade sprint was open to all. Bob Knezevic (Sutherland) took out the close fought sprint finish from J Trigg (Southern Cross) second and A Wild (Southern Cross) third. Prime Mark Nicholls (Sutherland)

Oceania MTB XC 25th Jan
Congratulations to Perren Delacour (Sutherland) who just missed out on the medals with a 4th place in the Cross Country event Elite Category in Rotorua, NZ
1 Sid Taberlay                   2.07.37
2 Christopher Jongewaard   2.09.19
3 Craig Gordon                   2.11.02
4 Perren Delacour              2.12.08
Also regular Twilight (Boy) racer Justin Case (Clarence St) who was 5th in Junior expert.

Twilight Criteriums 23rd Jan 2003
A cool 23c evening with a gentle assisting tailwind on the home straight saw some fast racing in all the grades With the first 15 minutes racing on the flatter #2 circuit before moving onto #3 for A + B grades high average speeds were the par.
In A grade Richard Vollebregt (Southern Highlands) made his usual tactical approach of putting his head down and going from the gun with Steve Williams (Sutherland) also making a number of attacks which strung and splintered the bunch but they kept regrouping and in the end ‘Trackie’ Steve Fitzpatrick (St George) again showed his sprint prowess by leading from the final bend and aided by the tailwind took an easy win with Peter Hatton (Clarence St) second and Jeff Hopkins (Jittery Joes) third. Prime Richard Vollebregt.
Lots of attacks kept the B grades on their toes but again the ever improving Mark Goodwin (Sutherland) took the sprint from Adrian Cooper (Illawarra) and Brett Townsend (Sutherland ) taking third and the prime.
C grade saw Michelle Duvall (Southern Cross) outsprint the bunch with Martin Snowdon (Sutherland) second and Graham Horn (Sutherland) third. Primes went to Craig Waghorn (LA) and Martin Snowden.Australian Road Race and Individual Time Trial Championships held at Ballarat, Victoria 15-18 January 2004.
Men’s 180km Road Race
1st Matthew Wilson (Vic) FDJeux.com      4.47.43
2nd Robert Mclachlan (ACT)                   +1.10
3rd  David Mckenzie (Vic) Navigators         +3.13
Women’s 100km Road Race
1st Oenone Wood (ACT)                      3.01.30
2nd Katie Mactier (Vic)                         
3rd Sara Carrigan (Qld) Bik-Powerplate          
Mens 39km TimeTrial
1st Nathan O'Neill (Qld) Colavita-Bolla  51.08.45
2nd Peter Milostic (NSW)                 + 1.50.74
3rd Luke Roberts (SA) ComNet         + 1.53.27
23rd Daniel Brickell (NSW-Sutherland) +6.25.09
Womens 28km Time Trial
1 Oenone Wood (ACT)          40.41.67
2 Sara Carrigan (Qld)        + 0.27.29
3 Kathryn Watt (Vic)         + 0.43.41
 

Twilight Racing - 16th January 2004
With Riders away at the Australian champs and Canberra MTB Tour, it was going to be a quiet friday night. Just to dampen the enthusiasm the drought over Sydney was broken with a tropical downfall bringing warm and 100% humidity (aka rain) conditions.
With the criteriums cancelled for the evening the main event was the Sausage Sandwich eating contest easily won by John Anderson. John managed to consume 13 Sausage & Onion sandwiches and 2.5 litres of Coca Cola! Second was birthday boy ‘Jags’ Donovan with 8 and third Col Poulton with 6 and a pint of warm stout. 

Twilight Racing - 9th January 2004
Another warm 25c evening assisted by a helpful tailwind on the home straight ensured that the pace was going to be high in all the grades.
Despite a number of riders participating in the “Jayco Bay Classic Series” the ‘A’ grade bunch were taking no prisoners and the high pace saw only half the field finishing. From the gun Richard Volebregt (Southern Highlands) took off like a Canberra bushfire and was soon joined by Steve Williams (Sutherland) and a handful of riders including Justin Case (Clarence St) who took out the first prime and then paid the price by beginning the exodus of riders to the chasing group leaving only Volebregt and Williams remainingat a gap of 20 secs to the chasing group. With only 6 laps remaining a successful bridge by Peter Hatton (Clarence St) and Shaun ‘Eyebrow’ Higgerson (Randwick Botany) saw some fresh legs add to the escapees. Hatton took out the second prime but paid the price as Higgerson easily won the race from Hatton second and Volebregt third.
After convincing the starters with his story of how he hasn’t been on the bike for a year, recently had a lung and kidney removed etc Matt ‘B’ Grade Bazzano (St. George) was content to leave it to the sprint after a few aborted attempts at escaping the clutches of B grade. Mark Goodwin (Sutherland) was second and Adam Proudlock third. The prime went to Joe McDonnell (Illawarra). C Grade saw lots of aggressive attacking but again all came down to a bunch finish with Simon Andrews (Sutherland) taking out the sprint from Graham Horn (Sutherland) and Michelle Duval (Southern Cross) third. The prime went to Craig Waghorn (Lidcombe-Auburn)
D grade saw Brian Hopkins (Southern Cross) the clear winner from Chris Booth (Sutherland) and Barry Eadie (Sutherland)

Twilight Racing - 2nd January 2004
The New Years resolution to get rid of the xmas pudding, trifle, chocolates, brandy snaps etc saw a number of new riders line up on a warm 25c evening assisted by a helpful tailwind on the home straight.
‘A’ grade enjoyed 15 minutes of track 2 with a prime thrown in just to keep the pace up (won by Steve Fitzpatrick St George) before another 20 on track 3. MTB’r Shaun Lewis - Yeti didn’t want to leave it to a bunch sprint and so broke away initially with Andrew Wyper - Bankstown and took the second prime but Wyper dropped off the pace and was replaced by Ben Brooks- Jelly Belly with two laps to go the remnants of the chasing bunch regrouped and Steve Fitzpatrick took out the sprint from Ben Brooks with Richard Volebregt third.
B Grade also enjoyed a fast intro on track 2 and even before moving to track 3 a number of riders were getting dropped by the aggressive riding of Horse Hobbs and Angry Anderson (both Sutherland) a few more attacks on track 3 saw Gary Libro Sutherland take the prime and then go on the attack with Peter Spence - CATS (QLD). This caused the chasing groups to splinter with only Hobbs able to rejoin the lead pair with 2 laps to go Spence showed his track sprinting ability and took the win from Libro and Hobbs third
The fast improving Simon Andrews - Sutherland took out the C Grade sprint from Graham Horn (Sutherland) and Bob Knezevic (Sutherland). Daryl Moylan won the prime.

Those who had recovered from the scorching hot xmas day (40c) made an effort to rid themselves of the excess trimmings by racing on Boxing day on a relatively cool (25c) evening.
Sam Lee (St George) showed his sprinting prowess by taking out the two primes on offer and then by breaking away with Josh Flemming with two laps to lead Josh over the line to win. The bunch sprint was taken out by Oliver Reitmeir for third.
With the fast finishing Chris Guillan promoted to ‘A’ grade, Adam Proudlock (Southern Cross) led home the bunch sprint only to be rolled on the line by Daniel Thomson (Sutherland) with Evan Palmer (Penrith) third.
Graham Horn (Sutherland) finally beat his nemesis Mark Nicholls (Sutherland) to take the C grade bunch gallo[. Mark said “I thought I would give Horny a Xmas present, he has been such a good boy this year”.  James Eades (Southern Cross) took third place.

Twilight Racing - 19th December
A hot summers day (32c) with a steady southerly breeze greeted the return of the fair-weather riders.
Chris Sutton (FDJ) and Sam Lee (St George) started the ‘A’ grade race with a breakaway on the first lap and were left dangling out front for a while until riders in one and two’s bridged across. Eventually two evenly numbered bunches formed with the rear group too disorganised to pull in the front group of 10 riders. Peter Hatton (Clarence St) easily took out the bunch gallop after straightening up Daniel Brickell’s line and overhauling Ben Brooks (Jelly Belly) who took second and Perren Delacour third. Primes also went to Pete and Ben.
In B Grade despite numerous attempt to break up the field it came down to a bunch gallop with recently turned U/19 rider Chris Guillan (Southern X) easily taking out the sprint from Joe McDonnell (Illawarra) and Gavin Bates (St George) third. Primes also went to Chris and Joe.
Mel Providente (Lidcome/Auburn) easily took out the C grade bunch sprint with Bob Knezevic (Sutherland) second and Peter Lang (Sutherland) third.

Twilight Racing - 12th December
A sultry stormy summers day saw the rain petering out into the evening but this was too late for most riders and so the race fields were only just in the double digits. With the track still a little damp riders took the corners with caution and there were no escapees in any of the grades resulting in bunch sprints for all grades.
Sam Lee (St George) took out the Prime and the sprint to win the A grade event from International Sports Journo Jeff Jones with MTB’r Dave Greening (SORCC) in third.
The Guillan brothers (Southern Cross) continued their winning ways with Chris taking out B grade from Matt Hobbs (Sutherland) and Daniel Thompson (Sutherland) followed by younger brother Matt winning C grade from Graham Horn (Sutherland) and Simon Andrews (Sutherland)
Twilight Racing - 5th December
With cool temperatures, a gusty southerly and overcast skies threatening to unleash its fury, we were expecting Hugo Weaving and Keanu Reeves to roll up ! For those of you who stayed away no it didn’t rain and yes we had some great racing!. 
‘A’ grade saw Mark Renshaw (FDJeux) ‘enjoying’ his first ride back after a couple of weeks off by taking out the prime and the sprint from Perrin Delacour (Yeti) with last weeks winner Charlie Topfer (Lidcombe Auburn) third.
One of the 3 Amigos aka Murray Walsh (Sutherland) enjoyed his last win in B grade (now promoted to A) by taking out the bunch sprint from Gavin Drury (Illawarra) and Adam Proudlock (SORCC).
The C grade sprint was won by the rapidly improving Lachlan Wainwright (SORCC) who also won a promotion to B grade, Phil Loxley (Sutherland) was second and the Fox Mark Nicholls (Sutherland) third

Gold, Gold, Gold!
Congratulations to Mark Nichols who has now more Gold Medals than Fabio after winning the Australian Masters Games Criterium in Canberra and the Veteran Championships recently

Twilight Race Series - 7th Nov 2003
The A grade race saw Perren Delacour (Yeti) make up for his 7th place in the National MTB championships by taking his frustations out on the bunch. With 3 laps remaining Delacour broke away from an escape group of 5 to take the win, meanwhile ‘Kilo’ Kev Aubrey (Bankstown) caught the remaining escapees on the last lap allowing the ‘fresh’ legs of Charlie Topfer and Warren Scott to take out the bunch sprint.

B grade saw a great solo effort by junior Chris Guillan (Southern X) to take out a well deserved win with the bunch lead home be Scott Ford and Chris Harris (SSCC)

The C Grade big men were dissapointed with having to do the last 2 laps on the hilly #3 circuit which saw the wily Luke Davidson take the win with Matt Davison (Southern X) and Graham Horn taking out the minor places

J-man Australian MTB XC Champion
After spending a season battling it out with the roadies over the cobbles in flanders combined with competing in the European and UCI world Cup MTB races saw Josh Flemming in great form to take out the XC champs held at Mt Beauty.

Club Tour - Bundanoon
Le SSCC gruppetto departed Sutho’ at 7.30 on Saturday morning accompanied by overcast skies and a Northerly tailwind which saw them clock up a fast 60km to Wollongong. The first stop at the North Beach Cafe saw most riders enjoying a Coffee and cake except for the Cookie Monster who devoured a Seafood Basket and Chips much to the amazement of Directeur Sportifs Col and Ken. A quick stop at the bottom of Macquarie Pass saw the riders lighten their load and prepare for the ascent. Fastest Time went to the Cookie monster (32mins) who seemed to be spurred on by the thought of Hot Apple and Cherry Pies at the Robertson Pie shop. The handicap winner and Queen of the Mountain was awarded to Anna Sutton who outrode many of the more experienced riders. (It was a peas souper London fog at the top of the Pass). After Cookie had gone through the Pie shop like a plague of locusts it was off to the Bundanoon Hotel. (At this point Matt ‘Miles’ Hobbs and Kilo Col Young decided that they would get more K’s in by riding home and then ride back again the next morning in order to get over 400km for the weekend). Greeted at Exeter by ex SSCC president Don Talintyre (and a rain squall) the bunch sped into Bundanoon and admired ‘Dons’ mural at the Cafe before sampling the goods inside. Ex Pro Richard ‘Virenque’ Vial also rode down (on his Aprilla to join us for dinner and port!)  Pre dinner drinks mixed with local grape testing provided a jovial evening as the awards were doled out (can’t remember much about the rest of the evening). Next morning (a slow and fragile departure helped on by a Southerly tailwind) saw the grupetto oscillate their way along some of the more testing country roads before stopping for refreshments in Picton.  Col and Matt had ridden out to meet us and set the tempo for the dash across the Appin block. Halting briefly at Sublime Point Lookout for a quick coke top up and we were ready for the charge home.
Many thanks to Col Poulton and Ken Martin for their encouragement and support, George at Endeavour Cycles for the Support Vehicle and Spares
The last Saturday race of the year was a double header a 15 lap Handicap and a Scratch race. The Handicapper had it on the nail as the scratch group of John Peters, Craig Handley and Ian Bradford swept up the leading groups with one lap to go which saw Bradford up the tempo on the last lap to enable the scratchies their first and only win of the year ! Those not racing the next day had a Points Race with Paul Mckenzie taking the line honours from Greg Gee and Andrew Hunter

Sunday saw a number of the SSCC Masters take to Eastern Creek Motor Racing circuit for the ‘Southern Hemisphere Cup’ run by the Waratah Vets. Congratulations to Head Commisaire Ken Martin who managed to control the 240 riders who at one time managed to form 1 huge pack (that’s what I call a bunch). Bello Gary Libro took 1st in the B grade, Mark Nichols 1st in E grade, Kerry Percy 1st in D and John Peters 5th in the A grade.

A cool clear 20c day with gusty southerly winds ensured no one would get a free ride to the finish at  the SSCC Club Road Championships held at Dapto last weekend. The  Illawarra Cycling Club which normally races on every saturday throughout winter kindly hosted the event in conjunction with their club race. The road course  utilises most of the ‘Ken Dinnerville Handicap ’ circuit and has a bit of everything, climbs, decents, crosswinds and a fast downhill finish
A race report is available on Cyclingnews
Trophies will be awarded at the club presentation Night
Many thanks to all the Illawarra members for the great receptiom and tough racing. We hope to return before not too long !

The last Watkins Espresso race for the ‘Winter’ season was held on Saturday morning.
We would like to thank ‘Watkins Real Estate’ who have generously sponsored the Series, please support them with your patron.Special thanks to Craig/s, Ian, Ken and Renee for running the races.

In A grade Darren Cash took out an easy win from Barista Handley and Daniel Thompson.
Illawarra dominated the B Grade with David Stewart and Dylan Forbes breaking away early in the race leaving Jeff Gray with the bunch sprint!
C Grade Fox, Mark Nichols showed his sprint skills by taking a clear win against Greg Gee and Graham Horn

Hornsby to Warners Bay (inc State RR Champs)
Well done to Cookie, Willy, Cashy, Col and Daniel who all competed in this tough road race.  Cookie again was on the attack creating the winning break but unable to go with the attacks in the end and having to contest the bunch gallop

TT, Olympic Sprint, 5 Lap H’cap Omnium
Fantastic weather for kites but a bit dodgy for bikes ! With the gusty southerlies blowing across the track good bike handling skills were mandatory.
The ever improving Wayne Druery took out the 1 lap TT (1.15.84) from a standing start. The Olympic Sprint went to the team of Paul Mckenzie, Chris  Booth and Gary Libro.
The outmarkers took out the Handicap with Gary Buckley taking line honours from in Chris Booth and John Lee

The Omnium Champ was Wayne Druery with Paul McKenzie and Chris (i’ve only just got off the Iron lung) Booth second and third respectively.

Cookie Monster eats up the Gibralter Range
With a sweltering hot sun and strong head wind ahead off him (for 230km) Geoff Cook broke away with 8 other riders 5km into the start of the Grafton to Inverell and then rode away from them all as he climbed the Gibralter range to take the KOM. Caught by the remaining 15 strong peleton 5km before Glen Innes he was unable to make the final break but finished a creditable 9th overall !
 

15 lap Handicap
Meanwhile back at the ranch (Waratah Park)....
Chris Booth again provided the Handicapper with a sob story that he hadn’t even touched the bike since last week yet once on the bike his cadence looked like a Moulinex in overdrive as his group easily kept the scratchies at bay along with Anna Sutton and Roger Tuckwell second and third respectively.
Fastest rider was John Peters who managed to hang on to Young Col Young and flick him in the sprint after having sat on all race

Australian / Oceania’ Championships
Congratulations to al the Sutho riders who made the trip to QLD for the Champs. Coming home (Via the Grafton - Inverell) was Elite Mens Time Trial Silver Medallist Geoff Cook who was bridesmaid again to Peter Milostic (NSW). Flying up in his personal Jet for the day saw Kevin Donovan pick up a Gold and Bronze in the Team Sprint and Scratch race respectively

Interclub 13th Sep Waratah Park
Randwick Botany and Eastern Suburbs riders paid a return vist to Sutherland’s Waratah Park to contest in the Omnium Championships (Points race, Elimination, Scratch race). Despite being on home ground Sutho’ were beaten comprehensively in the A+B grades by and it took the C+D graders to pull out some local winnerss

Thankyou to all those who helped out and assisted with running the busy 12 race program especially the Commisaires Col Poulton and Joanne Buckton, John Buckton and Tony Horneman for rallying the RB warcry and all the riders who made the trip over and provided some enjoyable racing!
Definetely a 2-0 to RB this year!

15 Lap Handicap - #3 Circuit
An all in Handicap on another beautiful winters days (except for the NW Wind!) saw outmarker Chris Booth (aka The Flying Fox) managing to keep the packs at bay by taking out the handicap from a rapidly chasing Graham Horn and Mark Nichols. 
Fastest Time went to Scratchman Craig Handley

Club Snowball Pointscore
The C/D grade race saw Chris Booth listen attentively to Ken Martin in the pre race pep talk (when Ken informed them on how points were to be awarded ie 1st lap - 1point, 2nd Lap 2 points etc) and whilst the rest of the bunch waited for the whistle to blow Chris sailed to an easy win over Graham Horn and Greg Gee  The A/B race saw a very aggresive attack on the   starting lap by Colin Reay who was determined to get on the score board (at least once) and then the bunch woke up..  Handley, Peters and Aubrey (2nd overall) shared the points around over the subsequents laps until Greg McFarlane showed his endurance by holding off the gruppetto and amassing an unassailable lead. Unfortunately a fall by John Anderson at the bottom of #2 circuit saw the race halted and John was taken to St George Hospital for a check up (which he passed ok) but he is still looking for the dog that chewed on his ear whilst he was lying on the track.

NSW Club Teams Time Trial Championships

Gold   Sutherland Shire CC  1:59:52
Silver   Hinchinbrook            2:01:35
Bronze St George                 2:03:56

A big thankyou to all the Riders (including the ones who could’nt make it on the day), everone who competed in the Sutherland Teams, Drivers, Mechanics, Coaches,Supporters and sponsors for making the day so successful.

Thankyou Sponsors....
TYCO Electronics - Endeavour Cycles - Watkins Real Estate - PowerBar

State Teams Time Trial - The Teams + Info
The provisional list for teams and riders is here. If your name is not on the list but you are available either as a rider or can assist by being in the following car. then please contact me

NSW Road Teams Time Trial Course Information
The 20km course starts at the halfway point of the out and back course of the 40kms, as per last year.
The 30km course starts at the "Milk Bar" area (about 10kms from the Jones Rd. start area at) on the way out on the 40km out and back course.
The 80km course is 2*40km circuits of the out and back course as per last year.

NSW ITT Champ’s  – Calga 10 August
Congratulations to all the Sutho’ riders who competed in the Time Trial over the undulating and hilly 40km circuit. Geoff Cook who despite being ill in the early part of the year and only managing to fit in a ‘couple’ of training sessions claimed the Silver Medal behind his nemesis Peter Milostic in the Senior Mens event with some great rides also shown by Darren Cash (5^th)  Trent Wood 11^th and Edmund Knowles (19^th). In the Masters 8+ Mark Nichols took out the Bronze medal only 20secs off the Winner Evan Elliot (Dubbo)

Watkins Espresso 9 August 2003
Another ‘winters’ day saw perfect conditions with a cool but clear morning and a gusty southerly blowing down the home straight ready for another round of the Watkins Espresso Series.morning . The A grade race soon warmed up with Liam Kelly (Randwick Botany ) and Simon Price (Hobart Wheelers) escaping after the second prime and holding off the chasing bunch (headed by the King of Heffron) until 3 laps to go when it all came back together and saw Price leading the sprint and holding on for the win from the rapidly accelerating Kelly with Paul O’Neill holding off the King for Third. Primes to Kelly and Price.
B Grade saw the foxes lurking with the chickens after Daniel Thomson (SSCC) and Colin Reay (SSCC) took out the sprint and the inform treasurer Martin Snowdon taking third. Prime to Daniel Thompson
C Grade saw the steadily improving Andrew Crawford (SSCC) take out the win from Graham Horn (SSCC) with John Hatton also on the improve by taking third.  Prime John ‘Legs’ Lee
 

TTT Handicap (2 x 5laps)
A warm winters day (20c) with clear blue skies and a light southerly breeze was a perfect setting for honing the TTT skills over the hilly #3 circuit. Techniques such as bombing through and dropping off the back without a word allowed the more experienced team of outmarkers (made up off Kerry Percy, Chris Booth, Mark Nichols and Roger Crawford (RBCC)) easily hold off the 5 chasing teams to take out the first 5 lap event  After a short breather and team ‘discusions’ the second 5 lap race saw the scratch Team of Paul O’Neill, Craig Handley, Ian Bradford and Gary Libro romp away with the win. Thanks to Col and Pearce for their assistance in managing the event.

NSW Criterium Championships
Well done to Campbell Kerr who took second in the bunch gallop in the Men’s NSW State Criterim Championships

Traffic Marshalls Course
The club needs to have at least 10 accredited Traffic Marshalls (these may also be volunteers, friends or family). The courses based on the requirements of Appendix B of AS1742.3 2002 Traffic Control Devices for works on roads with an emphasis on the the activities of cycling event marshalls are are being held on Saturday mornings at the Dunc Gray Velodrome. The club are trying to arrange a training course at the clubhousewill pay for your attendance fee and you are expected to assist from time to time with club events held on public roads. Please contact us to nominate your interest.

Phil Almond - Coffs Harbour
We wish Phil and his wife the best of luck as they leave this week for Coffs Harbour to live on a semi/permanent basis. We will all miss Phil who has always helped out at the club and been a great competitor! (At least we can now go to a warm SSCC Winter Training Camp now ED:)
 

Ban on Road Races in NSW Lifted
The following Email has been sent to NSWCF members on their mailiong list
Please see the NSWCF page for more details

Watkins Espresso Series Sat 5th July
A cool,crisp but sunny morning saw the riders soon heat up in round 3 of the Watkins Espresso Series with Andrew Kilday (St George) taking out the A grade bunch sprint from Steve Williams (Sutherland) and Phil Almond (Sutherland). Prime Steve Williams
B Grade saw Gary Libro (Sutherland)take a comfortable win over Chris Harris and Paul (I can't make my mind up which grade i'm in ) McKenzie. Prime Paul McKenzie (Sutherland)
C Grade saw eventual winner Mark Goodwin (Sutherland) and John Anderson (Sutherland) break away half way through the race with Graham Horn taking oout the bunch gallop.
Prime John Anderson (Sutherland).

Special thanks to Max the Coffee Maestro for the great work behind the Coffee Machine !

Tasman Shield Crit
After the third stage of the TS (RR H’Cap) young master Ian Bradford made it a clean sweep by taking out the final event with Martin Hoyle enduring the wrath of Craig Handley by pipping Craig on the line.
Kerry Percy held off Anna Sutton to win the ladies event and in the mens, Paul McKenzie took 1st with Phil Neeves 2nd (both off Scratch) wuth Matt Price in 3rd.
Final Standings
Ladies         Points
Anna Sutton      12
Kerry Percy        7
 
Seniors
Paul McKenzie    15
Geoff Cook       14
Phil Neves         13
 
Masters
Ian Bradford     21
Martin Hoyle     11
Craig Handley    9 

Criterium 20th June
Craig Handley made sure no one was going to sneek past this week, launching with a one to go flyer that saw him hold off the chasing bunch headed by Paul Mckenzie to take the A grade. Martin Snowdon won B grade with the ever youthful Mark Nicholls taking C Grade and Anna Sutton D Grade

Tasman Shield RR
Blue Skies (19c) and a slight southerly breeze kept the pace high as Geoff Cook took no prisoners in the criterium as the field were lapped not once but twice in the Seniors race with Phil Almond and Phil Neeves taking the bunch sprint for second and third respectively.
In the Masters race Ian Bradford just held off Col Young by half a wheel for the win with the bunch led in by Martin Hoyle

Josh Flemming is currently based in Belgium riding for a local team  ‘Bouwelse Wielervrienden’ and will be competing in the St Wendal and Fort Williams (Scotland) World cups races in May. His goals are World Cup and Olympic selection (which the World Champs in Switzerland and the World Cup finals in Austria count towards).

In the meantime as a build up Josh is competing in the European Cup MTB races plus giving the roadies a hard time  !

The J man competed in the UCI XC World cup race at Fort William Scotland and finish 51st out of 150 entries !

Secret Wedding !
Congratulations to Bridget and Darren Cash who were married at the weekend. They were waiting to see if they got the seven year itch and as it didn’t show finally tied the knot!

Get Well Soon !
Ian Brindley was recently taken into hospital to have a tumour removed and was ‘lucky’ to catch it in it’s early stages and will only need a low dose of 10 times around the carpark at Lucas Heights to ensure nothing is lurking. Our thoughts and prayers are with you Ian for a speedy recovery.

Tasman Shield TT A beautiful fresh Winters Morming (18c) with a clear blue sky and a light southerly breeze ensured that the riders soon warmed up on the undulating 17km out and back circuit from Waterfall to Helensburg.
A number of new members ‘enjoyed’ the test of truth whilst some riders were disapointed with their results which had seen their training hampered by the deluge of rain over the last 6 weeks (only in Sydney !).

It came as no surprise when Geoff Cook took out the event with the fastest ride completing the 17km in 24.47 minutes beating Phil Almond’s previous course record by more than 2 minutes
 

Thanks to Graig Hawkins for his roving Patrol !

After celebrating Steve Williams Birthday the night before (and into the early hours of the morning) combined with the monsoon rain only three nutters (Ewen Dan and Perrin) were seen out on their pushbikes the next morning floating majestically through Taren Point in search of the mythical ‘Dry Spot’. Meanwhile at the clubhouse the Espresso machine hummed and the coverage of the Giro pumped out the 30C heat from the roads to Avezzano and this seemed much easier than chewing the handlebar! See you all at round III where we may be featuring a Pedalo event !

Josh Flemming is currently based in Belgium riding for a local team  ‘Bouwelse Wielervrienden’ and will be competing in the St Wendal and Fort Williams (Scotland) World cups races in May. His goals are World Cup and Olympic selection (which the World Champs in Switzerland and the World Cup finals in Austria count towards).

In the meantime as a build up Josh is competing in the European Cup MTB races plus giving the roadies a hard time  !

Report from J _Man from round 2 of the Belgium Cup at Langdorp. May 11th

“The course was similar to last weeks Europa Cup.and contained a strong field of over 80 riders including Filip Meirhaeghe. At the start a small chute allowed for only 8 riders across and I started on the 4th row which was ok.
After a fair amount of chasing I managed to work my way up to the front group and as we came to the feed zone the pace had dropped off a little and about 15 riders had bunched up.
Got a little squashed going into the first short single track and as we came back out onto the gravel road a group of 6 had gapped the group I was in.
The legs where feeling good so I managed to just about get back on to the lead group but Filip and 2 other riders had broken away..
I slowly caught and passed the two breakaway riders and moved into 2nd spot with 3rd on my wheel.until he punctured from hitting a tree root.on a gnarly descent.
So I kept on pushing and finished in 2nd place 2.15min down on Filip.
It’s the 2nd Round of the Europa cup next week then i’m off to the World cup at St Wendal”

Commissaries Course
If you want to know how to stick your head out of a Renault sun roof at 100km/h whilst keeping your hair in place a la TDF this is the course for you!
In order for the club to run any events attendance by a commissaire is mandatory and we need additional commissaires. On successful completion of the course you would be expected to assist with both club and open events from time to time..
The Tech Commission will be conducting a Commissaire course at the Dunc Gray Velodrome on the weekend of 24th & 25th May, interested members please notify us ASAP. The Club will cover all attendence fees.

South Pacific Championships
The Veteran SP Champs were held in Maryborough, Victoria at Easter with over 200 entries and attractive prizemoney on saw Mark Nicholls extend his collection of medals by winning Gold in the Road race and Criterium, Silver in the Time Trial and Bronze in the Sprint.

National Commisaire
Congratulations to Ken Martin who recently completed and passed the ACF National Commisaires course.

0th May 2003
A perfect autumn afternoon saw Phil Almond show his versatility after winning the time trial last week to  sprinter this week by taking out the A grade event with 25 points over Ian Bradford on 16 and Paul McKenzie.
B grade fox Gary Libro (29 points) kept Col Young (16 points) and Neil Thorburn honest (10 points)
Mark Nichols (20) showed the C Grade riders why he is still a champ with Bob Knezevic (11 points) and Greg Gee (6 Points) third.
D Grade saw the repidly improving Brett James (19 Points) just edge out David Stride (18 points) with Michelle Hatton (10 Points) in third.
 

 Josh Flemming is currently based in Belgium riding for a local team  ‘Bouwelse Wielervrienden’ and will be competing in the St Wendal and Fort Williams (Scotland) World cups races in May. His goals are World Cup and Olympic selection (which the World Champs in Switzerland and the World Cup finals in Austria count towards).

In the meantime as a build up Josh is competing in the European Cup MTB races plus giving the roadies a hard time  !

In the European Cup Round 1 (Kluisbergen-Mont de l'Enclus, Belgium, May 4, 2003) the J - Man finished 9th with Bart Brentjens taking out the event

Waterfall - ‘Berg Time Trial (TR) 
3rd May 2003
A calm sunny morning with the temp in the high teens saw some fast times being produced on the hilly W’fall - ‘Berg circuit with Phil Almond setting the fastest time, Col Young astride his new steed took 2nd in 27.22 from Kev Donovon in 27.32.

Waterfall Time Trial - 3rd May -Training Ride
One for the climbers !
A bunch will leave the Clubhouse at 7:00 for a warm up ride to Waterfall. First rider departs Waterfall at 8:00 travelling out on the Freeway cyclepath to Helensburgh, first left at the roundabout and return via the old Highway to finish at the entrance to Camp Coutts.

26/4/03
The ever improving Phil Neeves starting on chopping block managed to take the A grade handicap from Kevin Donowon and Paul McKenzie

The B grade race went to Gary Libro from Col Young and Steve Boros

The C grade race saw young Mark Nichols hold off John Anderson and John Lee for the win

12/4/03
A beautiful autumn afternoon saw some determined racing despite a large number of missing riders who were ’enjoying’ the Kangaroo Valley Training Camp. The C/D racing on number 2 circuit saw the in form Mark Nichols take the sprint from Graham Horn and Andrew Crawford.

The A/B race racing on number 2 and 3 circuits saw the escapees Phil Almond, John Peters and Col Young caught with 2 laps to go but still managed to take out the sprint respectively.

It’s a Girl !
Congratulations to Glen and Kirin East on the birth of their daughter ‘Rosie’ (3.5kg 3/4/03). Mother and Baby are fit and well.

Congratulations to Col and Doreen Poulton on celebrating their Golden Wedding Anniversary.

6/4/03
A cool but sunny autumn morning with a sready south westerly breeze saw the riders setting fast times on the outgoing leg with a considerably tougher return section into the wind. Visitor  Shaun Higgerson took line honours in completing the inaugural 16.5 Kurnell Time Trial Training circuit in a time of 21:41 (Avg Speed 45 Km/h) and set a new course record. The first Sutherland rider and winner of the Steve Roper event was Darren Cash (22:52 Avg Speed 43.3 km/h) who managed to hold Paul O’Neill and Trent Wood at bay.  for full results see the club results page  

SSCC Track Championships
The Sutherland and Southern Highlands Cycling Clubs held their track Champs at (30th Marchat)  the Dunc Gray Velodrome and also invited riders from other clubs to compete in the open races including the prestigious “Endeavour Cycles Wheelrace”. A 500m Time Trial, Scratch Race and Sprint Derby were used to decide the champions from each Division. Results >>
The Endeavour Cycles Wheelrace was won by Warren Scott (St George) narrowly from Steve Fitzpatrick (St George) after Paul O’Neill (Sutherland) chased the field down but couldn’t hold off the fast finishing duo.
A big thankyou to Endeavour Cycles for sponsoring the event, Ken Martin, Peter Tomlinson, the DGV Staff, Red Cross, volunteers, riders and spectators in making this event so enjoyable.
Photos Coming Soon !

28/03/03
The last Twilight Race of the Season saw Chris Sutton (FDJeux) take the A Grade sprint from Warren Scott (St George) with Papa O’Neill third. Numerous attacks were launched during the race but none succeeded until 2 laps to go when a group of 6 riders escaped with Sutton comfortably along for the ride.

With all 3 riders showing consistent results through the last races of the series, winner Chris Gillian (Southern Cross) 2nd place getter Grant Patrick (Southern Cross) and in third Nick Santos (Lidcombe Auburn) will be rewarded with promotion to A Grade when the Twilight Season resumes in late October after taking out the bunch galllop yet again.

A close C Grade bunch finish saw a reshuffle from last week with Jason Johnson (Illawarra) taking the win from Peter Lang (Sutherland)and Luke Davidson (Southern X)

Chris Booth (Sutherland) had to be satisfied with his hatrick as Barry Eadie (Sutherland) took the sprint with Ian Reid (Waratah Vets) in third in the D grade race
 

A big thankyou to everyone who assisted in making the Twilight Series so successful especially Ken Martin, Col Poulton the Canteen and BBQ Crew, the Registrars,Track Setup and tear down crew, Spectators and of course all the riders !
The Twilight Series will recommence on October 31st 

21/03/03
The trackies Steve Fitzpatrick (St George) and Campbell Kerr (Sutherland) showed their timing skills by closing down escapee Darren Cash (Sutherland) with one metre to go. With MTBers Perrin Delacour (Yeti) Justin Case (Clarence St)  and Josh Flemming (Felt) maintaining a good tempo at the front of the bunch in order to bring back repeated atacks from Sutherland riders Geoff Cook and Paul O’ Neill. With 4 laps remaining an attack from a Eurobodalla rider was joined by Cashy who then seemed destined for the win ....but the fat lady hadn’t sung yet !

With plenty of attacks fragmenting the B Grade bunch fast finisher Grant Patrick took the sprint from Chris Young (Eastern Suburbs) and Nick Santos  (Lidcombe Auburn)

The C Grade bunch sprint was taken by junior Luke Davdson (Southern X) from again  Jason Johnson (Illawarra) and Peter Lang (Sutherland).

Chris Booth (Sutherland) for the third week in a row won the hotly contested bunch sprint from Barry Eadie (Sutherland) and Shark Island Swim Champ Steve Williams (Sutherland) in the D grade race

SSCC Track Championships
The Track Champs will be held next Sunday afternoon (30th March) commencing at 12:00 at the Dunc Gray Velodrome which incorpoate the prestigious Endeavour Cycles Wheelrace and Omnium Championship race. Even if you’re not competing you are most welcome to attend this first class facility. Entry is free for spectators!  You will really see the cobwebs fly as some of the old track riders try to crank their leg speeds up!   Entry is on the line and open to visitors from other clubs, please register your interest to ride with Ken Martin. See the Club Track Open page for more details here...

NSW Track Champs
Congratulations to Karen Dutton who took out the Masters Women Sprint and Pursuit last weekend resplendent in her new skinsuit!

UCI World Cup Race - Geelong
Congratulations to Renee Fortunato on her great ride in the first UCI Womens Race of the year. Renee finished with Teammate Rochelle Gilmore some 2 minutes down on the winning break.  Sara Carrigan pipped Katie Mactier on the line to win the race after being part of a leading group of 7 riders who  had dangled off the front of the main bunch for almost 120km.

14/03/03
Another week with plenty of attacks but with no sustained breaks saw Phil Almond (Sutherland) get the jump on the bunch as they waited for the sprinters to turn up the wick. Kevin Aubrey (Bankstown) took second and Campbell Kerr (Sutherland) third. Prime was won by Dale of Illawarra.

With the B Grade bunch fragmenting due to a number of attacks in the last 3 laps Trent Butler  (Lidcombe Auburn) took the sprint from Tyler Maclachlan (Southern Cross) and Peter Kains (Sutherland).Prime was won by Maclachlan.

The C Grade bunch sprint was taken by Mark Goodwin (Sutherland) from Jason Johnson (Illawarra) and Anthony Robertson (Sutherland). Prime was won by Snowden (Sutherland)

Chris Booth (Sutherland) for the second week in a row held off Ian Reid (Waratah) and Barry Eadie (Sutherland) in the D grade ra

7/3/03
With the St Mary’s Criterium on the next day the A graders wanted an ‘easy one’ in order to prepare for it. What they got was 40mins of flat out racing with everyone trying to escape yet not wanting to work ! Despite the best efforts of Sean Higgerson (Randwick Botany) and Troy Glennon (St George) the remaining bunch gathered for a bunch finish with Campbell Kerr (Sutherland) the crowd favourite to take the win, but fate deflated his chances (rear tyre) and his teammate Paul O’Neill took the sprint with ease from Sean Higgerson and Kevin Berkley (Parramatta)

Coming down to a bunch finish, Clayton Butler and teamate Nelson Santos (Lidcombe Auburn) showed their leadout skills to take out the B grade sprint with Phil Neves (Sutherland) third

The steadily improving Randwick Botany rider Michael Murdoch took the strung out bunch sprint from Peter Lang (Sutherland) and recently turned full time Pro bike rider Martin Snowden (Sutherland)

Chris Booth (Sutherland) scorched up the home straight to take the sprint from Ian Reid (Waratah) and team-mate Brice Pollard (Sutherland) in the D grade race

28/02/03
The threatening southerly change never arrived and a warm (28c) and humid evening greeted the riders. The Korean National team were determined to get in the places and with their “Brownie” style of riding all riders had to be alert.However Klayton Smith (Clarence Street) was in an attacking mood and went solo with 5 laps remaining. Despite being caught by Cho Hu Sang (Korea) with one lap to go Smith still had enough left in the tank to drop Sang on the climb to take out the win. Sang finished second and the chasing bunch driven by Kev Aubrey (who had a nasty elbow twitch but with no takers) lost out to You Tae Bok (Korea) for third.

Matthew Lucas (Randwick Botany) took the B Grade sprint from Mitchell Pearson (Eurobodalla) and Chris Guillan (Southern Cross)

Randwick Botany made a cleansweep of the C grade placings with the bunch sprint taken by Janelle Lindsay with team-mates  Joseph Sorley and Michelle Murdoch taking the minor placings

Ian Read (Waratah) showed Chris Booth and team-mate Barry Eadie (Sutherland) a clean pair of cleats to take the D grade sprint

21/02/03
Racing was cancelled on Friday evening due to a deluge of very welcome rain !
Sydney and NSW has been experiencing a drought and the cats and dogs descended all day and night and was  expected to continue all weekend bringing some welcome relief to the Farmers and FireFighters and an enforced rest for us fairweather softies!

What ! It’s still raining and you don’t what to get the bike dirty or get a sweat up on the turbo! How about making the computer do the hard work for you ? Get together a virtual team and take on the Tour de France instead. A shareware version of Cycling Manager is available or see their Web site

14/02/03
Shaun Higgerson again eluded the bunch after breaking away after the second prime of the evening. Despite an organised chase including Chris Sutton (FDJ), Ben Brooks (Jelly Belly) and Jeff Hopkins (BSCC) Higgerson continued to gain time and soloed to victory. The chasing group was swamped on the last lap with Hopkins still able to take the bunch sprint from Warren Scott (St George). Primes were taken by Brent Dawson (Jelly Belly) and Warren Scott.

With a Number of B graders now promoted to A grade it was a changing of the guard in B grade with Luke Picton (Southern Cross) taking the sprint from clubmate Grant Patrick and Clayton Butler (Lidcoime Auburn)

A Sutherland Cleansweep this week in C grade saw the bunch sprint going to Bob Kneywick from Graham Horn and Mark Goodwin.

The D grade sprint agaiin was taken out by Chris Booth (Sutherland) who nust now be due for promotion  from Ian Reid (Waratah Vets) and the fast improving Sharon Lane (Sutherland)

2003 AGM
Thank you to both the Club members and volunteers who showed their support by attending the Club AGM on the 5th Feb 2003.
The club would like to thank all those people who have donated their time and resources into running the club throughout the year. The details of the elected officers is available on the Contact Us page

Geoff Cook (aka Cookie Monster)
Geoff is awaiting more information on his options (something about upgrading to 24valves) but is stable and up and about.
 

7/02/03
Jeff Hopkins (Bankstown) took the bunch gallop with ease always keeping to the fore in the frantically fought last kilometre. A light southerly meant a finish into a headwind and the sprinters showed how to turn up the power on the home straight with Steve Fitzpatrick second (St George) followed by Campbell Kerr (Sutherland) and Paul Rowney (SOBE-Canondale). Last weeks winner Shaun Higgerson cheered on from the sidelines as he appeared to be suffering with a groin strain. The two primes were taken by Fitzy and Wozza (St George)

The B Grade pace was high again with some serious efforts put in to shell out the weaker riders and lose a few sprinters in the last five laps. The sprint for the line was into a headwind as the first riders found to their dismay and Gavin Bates (St George) timed it perfectly for the win from Grant Patrick (Southern Cross). Alex Frame (Sutherland) managed to roll Phil Bray (Sutherland) for third.  Primes were taken by Maclachlan and Hood.

Promotion is on the way for the C grade winner Trent Butler (Lidcombe - Auburn) who took advantage of the change to the hillier #3 circuit for the last couple of laps by keeping the pace high and ensuring a strung out bunch finish from Mark Goodwin (Sutherland) and Peter Lang (Sutherland). Prime winners were Lindsay and Wild.

The D grade sprint was taken out by Chris Booth (Sutherland) from Ian Reid (Waratah Vets) and Scott Mills (St George)

We will be attempting to have some video clips from the race (courtesy Paul O’Neill Productions) shortly
 

31/01/03
Shaun Higgerson (Randwick Botany) surprised himself by outsprinting Chris Sutton (FDJ) to take the win on a cool (22c) and blustery evening. Higgerson decided it was time to put the hammer down after the second Prime and Sutton managed to bridge across from a small chase group. The pair then gained time as the bunch kept misfiring like a V8 commodore with water in the line. Campbell Kerr (Sutherland) took the bunch gallop from last weeks winner (and now NSW Madison Champ, Steve Fitzpatrick (St George).The two ther primes were taken by Dale and Paul O’Neil (Sutherland)

The B Grade pace was high again over the last three laps with the stayers trying to get rid of the sprinters to no avail as it all came back together on the home straight. The rapidly improving Luke Cridland (Southern X) took the sprint (and the last prime) from strongmen John MacKenzie (Eastern Suburbs) and Murray Walsh (Sutherland)

Peter Williams (Sutherland)  took out the C grade bunch sprint from Trent Butler (Lidcombe - Auburn) and the Sutho club treasurer Martin Snowdon

The D grade sprint was taken out by the World Champion Sprinters Father, Barry Eadie (Sutherland)  from Sharon Lane and Bruce Pollard
 

24/01/03
Steve Fitzpatrick (St George) and Jeff Hopkins (Bankstown) showed some perfect timing by putting the hammer down on the last lap in order to bridge across to the breakaway duo of Peter Hatton (TREK) and Paul Rowney (SOBE - Cannondale). Fitzpatrick took the sprint from Hoppy with Rowney taking third and Hatton in fouth. Last weeks winner Shaun Higgerson (Randwick) took the incentive early on in the race ‘enjoying’ 20mins off the front and taking a Prime for his effort whillst the sporadicly working bunch then saw Mtb’rs Hatton and Rowney escape, exchanging positions with Higgerson in the closing stages of the race only to be caught on the line in the A grade race.

After a high speed last three laps the B Grade bunch was spread out and saw strong riding by Phil Neves (Sutherland) to take the sprint from Bates (St George) and Walsh (Sutherland)

C grade bunch gallop was taken by the fast finishing Aitchson (Southern Cross) from Willaims and Goodwin (Sutherland)

The D grade sprint was taken out yet again by Ian Reid (Waratah) from Chris Booth and Barie Eadie (Sutherland)

17/01/03
The Australian Road and TT championships had lured away the usual big hitters from the field and everyone thought that tonight the Podium girls would be planting their kissers on them.
Numerous attacks were launched but without the usual firepower to sustain them a bunch finish was destined. The last time up the hill saw Shaun (HavaChat) Higgerson (Randwick Botany) managing to talk the other riders off his wheel despite giving them a lengthy lead out. Trackstars Steve Fitzsimmons (St George) and Kevin Aubrey (Bankstown) took the minor placings

Practice makes perfect fot B grade winner Andrew Kildare (St George) who had been trying to work the ‘3 laps to go move’ for the last couple of weeks and finally succeeded taking the win with ease as the bunch galloped in some 10 seconds behind headed by Phil Neves and Murray Walsh (Sutherland)
With a Full moon on the horizon (and someone swearing that a Werewolf was riding C grade). All sorts of strange happenings occured withr some gravel rash for a couple of riders (thankyou St Johns). With the last couple of laps held over the more demanding #3 circuit Peter Williams (Sutherland) held off Lee Dutton (Sutherland) and Janelle Lindsay (Randwick Botany)
D Grade saw the wily fox Ian Reid (Waratah) worked over by Luke Davsion and Matt Guillan (Southern Cross) in the #2 circuit dash.

Special Race Report by Abdu
When the tour bus arrived and unloaded the tifosi you knew it was going to be a special night ! Yes, the Caveman was back for 2003 and the other riders knew they were going to be in for a hard night. Renowned for shouting words of encouragement to the other riders a queue quickly formed at the St Johns Aid station for cotton wool to stuff in their ears. The race got underway and it didnt take long for the ‘King of Kogarah’ to show the crowd what he had as he lead the bunch along the home straight pushing a huge 56x11 (at 5 or 6 rpm) his kneecaps looking like champagne corks about to pop! Being able to climb about as well as an Arthurs Seat Chairlift saw him yoyo from the front to the back of the bunch each lap. The last lap saw the Caveman hover off the front of the bunch and then as the sprint started he managed to stealthily work his way backwards finally finishing in 6th place. His fans didn’t care where he finished and immediately mobbed him ($15 per hour each from crowds r us)  WHAT A LEGEND!!! 
 

Congratulations to local rider Chris Sutton (fdj) on taking out the final Stage of the Jayco Geelong Bay Classic and gaining third on overall GC 

10/01/03
With Matt White (USPS) and Graham Brown (Ceramica Panaria) added to the Start List, fridays race was looking like it was going to be a warm up for the upcoming Australian Championships.
Steve Williams launched the first attack opening a small gap and then the heavens opened reducing the usual hot and sticky bitumen track to a slippery dip surface. The MTBr’s all thought this was great and MTBr Prof Pete (Trek) took the 1st prime as the main group slowly built up speed and reeled him in. Despite efforts by numerous riders to slip away White was always vigilant at the front in ensuring no advantage was given. The last lap saw the Sprinters line up behind White and Brown as they both powered up the hill and onto the finish straight with Brownie holding off White and Jeff Hopkins (Bankstown) for the win.
Justin Case (Trek) earned his ticket to A grade by taking a flyer with 2 to go and held off the rapidly closing B grade bunch led by young Luke Cridland (Southern Cross).
The ever youthful fox, Mark Nichols (Sutherland) took out the C grade gallop from Williams (Sutherland) and Lee Dutton (Sutherland)

Tour of Noosa
Daniel Bricknell (Sutherland) recently competed in and won the Tour of Noosa B grade after winning the Hill Climb finishing 2nd in the Criterium and 4th in the road race.  Daniel has been gaining consistent results throughout the year with an 8th in the Club National Time Trial and a 4th in the C grade Hornsby to Swansea despite going off course! Daniel works at Endeavour Cycles and enjoys testing out the latest Pinarello and Williers!

The monthly club meeting (normally held on the 1st Wednesday of each month at 7 pm at the clubhouse) has been postponed to the following week (8th Jan 2003) due to planned festivities !

03/01/03
Steve Wooldridge (St George) showed his World Class Colours by easily taking the sprint from Perron Delacour (SORRC - YETI) Chris Sutton (St George fdj) and the hill climber Kevin Aubrey (Bankstown) in fouth. Wooldridge and Sutton will be representing FDJ-NSW in the upcoming Jayco Geelong Bay Classic with Rodney Mcgee, Mark Renshaw and Chris Pascoe.  Local celebrity Kevin Nichols will also be competing in the ‘B’ series and his daugher Kate will be competing in the Womens Series.
The B grade race saw plenty of attacking but calmed down with 3 laps to go allowing the sprinters to compose themselves and saw Scott Ford (Sutherland) holding off Rene Fortunato (Sutherland) and Matthew Hood.
C grade saw the fast finishing Matt Hobbs (Sutherland) holding off Ryan Fold (SORCC) and Graham Horn (Sutherland)
D Grade contested over the fast #2 circuit was won by Ian Reid of Waratah Vets from Barry Eadie (Sutherland) and Chris Booth (Sutherland)

Twilight Racing 27/12/02
Steve Williams (Sutherland) seems to be in good form for the upcoming Nationals Championships with an aggresive ride last friday which saw him active in every break. The pace was on from the gun with the race looking more like an elimination with riders dropping out each lap. First to be eliminated was Kevin Donovan who complained that the  180km ride up Macquarie Pass hadn’t warmed him up sufficiently.
The early break of Williams, Cook (Sutherland) and Anderson (Caravello) saw a well working chase group headed by Josh Flemming (SORCC - FELT), Brian Appleyard (Sydney), Kevin Aubrey (Bankstown), Klayton Smith (Caravello) and the Prof Pete Hatton (SORCC) plus the survivors bring back the break with 10 minutes to go, only to see eventual winner Williams and Flemming disapear into the twilight with Appleyard winning the bunch sprint.
The B grade race appeared subdued this week with a bunch sprint concluding the racing which saw Rene Fortunato (Sutherland) still foxing in B grade allowing Luke Tallis (St George) to take out the bunch sprint and last weeks C grade winner Chris Gilliam (Southern Cross) to take third.
A last lap on curcuit number 3 allowed strong man Lee Dutton (Sutherland) to take out the C grade sprint from Ryan Fold (SORCC) and Matt Hobbs (Sutherland) 
 

Its a Boy!
Congratulations to Mark and Lisa Wall on the birth of their son Brodie (on 10/12/02 9lb 10oz) he has already teamed up with his older brother Riley in the twilight ‘Go Daddy’ cheer squad.

Twilight Racing 20/12/02
Kenny and his elves were full of Xmas cheer with Prizes of Mince Pies and Xmas Puddings being awarded not only for the race winners but also for Primes and the hard fought Lanterne Rouge. Ken Martin and Mick De Luca also presented the St. Johns Ambulance with some christmas cheer in appreciation of their attendance and support throughout the year.
Jono Hall (Illawarra + World Champion Duathelete) ensured a Xmas pudding was going home with him by setting a blistering pace which saw the race split into a pieces, Hall, Klayton Smith (Caravello) and Brendan Shipp (St. George) worked solidly together to extend their lead over the chasing bunches with Hall not wanting to risk the Pud to a bunch sprint attacking Smith and Shipp with 2 laps to go and managed to build a small gap which gave him the win.
Dave Greening (Razorback) secured the B Grade Pud and his ticket to A Grade by taking out the bunch sprint from Matthew Hood (St. George) and Rochelle Gilmore (Bankstown).
The podium filled with Southern Cross riders who left the old foxes standing when Chris Gillian, Patrick Grant and Matthew Wild took out the C grade spint

Twilight Racing 13/12/02
Klayton Smith (Caravello) enjoyed his win after taking out the ‘A’ grade sprint from Brent Dawson (Jelly Belly)and Chris Sutton (fdjeux). The high pace instigated by Smith from the start caused a split in the pack after only 2 laps with two groups forming, the 9 man breakaway group instigated by Smith saw the front runners (including Williams and Cook) easily keep the main grupetto at bay despite desperate attempts to try and bridge across.
Renee Fortunato (Sutherland) is keeping the boys honest in B grade with a 2nd again in the bunch sprint with Dave Greening (Razorback) just managing to hold her off. Justin Case (SORCC - Trek) showed plenty of aggression during the race but was unable to maintain the break.
Blake Field (St George) gets his reward for winning C Grade for the last couple of weeks by getting promoted to B grade.
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